I just had the bed and tailgate on my 2004 replaced with a 2015. The body shop took my old lock cylinder out to put in the new tailgate. The old tailgate is only a year old and I wanted to sell it. The issue is that the latch will not open the tailgate. I can manually unlatch it by pulling the rods. Does the lock cylinder not being installed somehow affect this and need to be installed for it to function properly or do the rods simply need to be adjusted? Thanks for any help

 

The lock flips a lever in the tailgate handle. You can take the cover off the inside of the tailgate and see the lever it flips. one way the handle works, the other way handle does nothing.

 

Thank you, that should help me get it working

 

Take a look at the photo for the Pop&Lock...you will see how the key flips the "toggle" in the photo....

http://www.popandlock.net/download/P...dfe2e99495b033

 

Thank you, problem solved!