Tailgate trim removal
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Tailgate trim removal
So this morning I took the second step on my Supercab restoration by removing the tailgate. It has quite a bit of bubble rust, I plan to wire wheel it tonight when I get home from school but first I need to remove the tailgate trim without breaking any of it because I don't have a parts truck yet. I was wondering if anyone can give me any instruction on how to do this.
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance
Laughing Gas
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Get yourself an old school bottle opener and tape up the tip. use that carefully to pry up from the bottom of the trim. there are a few screws in the ends that will need to be removed from what i can remember. The big ford chrome cover has about 8 nuts on the inside of the tailgate that needs to be removed. Just drop the tailgate and they should be there. just be carefull and look on the ends of the trim and you will find them.
Tim
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Get yourself an old school bottle opener and tape up the tip. use that carefully to pry up from the bottom of the trim. there are a few screws in the ends that will need to be removed from what i can remember. The big ford chrome cover has about 8 nuts on the inside of the tailgate that needs to be removed. Just drop the tailgate and they should be there. just be carefull and look on the ends of the trim and you will find them.
Tim
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I just got it all off, the bottle opener worked great. It really wasent that hard it just takes a lot of patchince. O and whoever came up with the idea of those weird nuts on the edge of the trim peice on the handel is officially stupid.
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