Project Vitamin C-10

[Alan's Classic]

Originally Posted by daverod

Nice older truck Alan.I want to get rid of my Fo#r and get somthing like that. Glad to see you sold the trailer. I've been tenting it for years it's much cheaper. Now take all that $$ your saving and get that truck runnung.

I'm gonna try to make some progress.

Originally Posted by ruffrida2005

You got one heck of a trade Alan. The bed is looking really good. Getting close.

Besides the bed what else is left to do?

It was a good trade. I've got a lot to do after the bed is done. Here is a short list, hood, headers, AC, glass, finish up seats, bumpers, wiring, carpet and a bunch of nickle dime stuff.

I went out and got the tailgate fitted and all hardware installed. It couldn't have been any easier. Had only one minor problem I will discuss that later.

First I centered the tailgate in the hole with bondo spreaders and a ratchet strap. I like using spreaders because they are tapered and I could fine tune the gaps.



All of the hardware.



Had to assy the strickers and install them in pre existing holes.





Then attach the side locks.



Hooked up side locks to stricker plate.



Installed latches.



A working tailgate. I like it!!!



The only problem is the latch on the right side was hitting the taper on the stricker (pointing to it in the pic) causing the TG to shift to the left closing up the gap on the left side. I haven't fixed it yet. There was a shim under the latch, but I removed it and installed a thinner shim. It helped, but not enough.



2 more pics on the way.