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f9k9 wrote:Mine broke because my Emergency Room Nurse/Wife couldn't understand why I would I tell her that we had enough a load in the bed of my old ZR2. She just assumed that if the bricks, that her Dad gave her, weren't to the top of the bed and falling off that we could load more.![]()
Rusty wrote:f9k9 wrote:Mine broke because my Emergency Room Nurse/Wife couldn't understand why I would I tell her that we had enough a load in the bed of my old ZR2. She just assumed that if the bricks, that her Dad gave her, weren't to the top of the bed and falling off that we could load more.![]()
Uh, what else broke? Anything? Springs, shocks, etc?
I remember loading up a friend's old ('65?) Ford F250 with shingles once only to discover that while the springs and stuff could still just barely handle the load, the old style drum brakes were another matter entirely. I'll never forget that first hill....
Well, for what it's worth, I still can't figure out how to program a VCR!f9k9 wrote:Am still being amazed at what a person who knows exactly what to do under stress (with a major trauma) can operate a defibrillator, give mustiple meds, coach our foriegn MDs through a crisis and cannot operate my power seat or use mirrors to back up a vehicle
I do the same thing on family outings, and I really don't want to see my wife and kids end up on the ground, or get hurt in any way because of this issue.Rusty wrote:Anyway, I think about how many times I've sat on the tailgate during the spring/summer months. If the cables break as easily as it sounds, I think I need to stop using my tailgate for a chair.
The ones I have seen are all breaking in the exact middle of the cable, right where they bend in half when they are closed. The new replacements for the full size trucks are suposedly stainless under the rubber coating. From what I can tell the rubber coating goes bad at the bend and lets water and salt get to the cable. It then rusts and breaks.killian96ss wrote:Rusty wrote:Are they failing because of rust, or are they just weak? Stainless cables would be nice.![]()
Steve
The handle must be removed to disconnect the bars that operate both latch's, otherwise the latch will not come out of the tailgate. Go ahead and take the latch off first and pull on it, you will notice that it just springs back into the tailgate. You need to remove the handle first, it's really not that hard.jmb222 wrote:Why do you have to remove the handle? I was hoping to just remove the bracket on the side of the tailgate. This job is not going to be as easy as I thought.
Thanks for the help
It's a heck of a lot easier to remove the bars by taking out one screwdaevans315 wrote:I was able to do this without removing the handle from the tailgate. I got my hand down inside the endgate and removed the connecting rods from the handle so that latches could be removed.
I agree.bwenny247 wrote:maybe GM needs to go back in time to find asnwers to its modern problems???