Tuesday, August 15, 2017

tailgates are getting fancier, and nicer. These shock absorbers make it a lot less jarring, and eliminate the slamming open and closed tailgate noise





Above you can see they had to add one plate for the top end of the strut


but the bottom end just taps into and creates it's own threads in the tailgate


and the above and below show the difference on the other side of the tailgate where there isn't a strut


8 comments:

  1. Its a truck not a station wagon. And just what I want on a tailgate... Something that provides resistance when I am trying to close it...

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    1. it's actually pleasant. I have no idea what a station wagon has to do with it. Not jarring to stop when dropped open and coming to the end of it's cable, or chain, is something I appreciate after years of owning and working with trucks. Even without a hangover

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  2. A station wagon has these to hold up the door/hatch. Hatchbacks also have these to keep same open.
    I suppose if you dont have the strength to hold the tailgate and lower it by hand, this is a great option.

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    1. Oh, you mean hatchback struts... yeah, those are different. Twice as long for example. As for your ridicuous taunt about lowering the tailgate by hand? I got more important things to do than to mollycoddle a damn truck tailgate. I just realize I'm fed up with the damn noise they make. I've been dropping tailgates since the mid 70s.
      It's not as funny as it used to be, and at least they don't have the s hooks and chains anymore.
      If your standing around holding the tailgate as it lowers? Then you haven't heard of work saving measures that humans have been inventing for the past couple thousand years. It's called labor saving devices.
      You'll love them, it makes life more pleasant when you don't have to walk everywhere, or run. When you stop using a rock to pound in nails, and get a hammer... wow. Wait til you discover matches! No more sparks and tinder! And fish hooks! So much better than catching them the old fashioned way stopped over all day.
      Still fell like cracking jokes about life's little conveniences that I appreciate you old fart? Or do you still hand crank over your model T?

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  3. No, the 27 T we have is electric start... ha ha ha...

    but it does have a "fat man" steering wheel that flips up out of the way so that you can slide in under the column easier...

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q5ZRX7pv4jXEPHuZ7cLNJ7MIoiN-TwHf4g/view?usp=sharing

    Whats next, a button on your key fob to open and close the tailgate for you?

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    1. Firstly, I know what a fatman steering wheel is, I even know the Tilt Lok http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2013/09/ive-never-seen-3-of-these-fatman.html

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    2. secondly, no... why would you use a button that requires your hands to be free? A half dozen years ago Ford put a motion sensor connected to a tailgate switch so you can just wave your foot under the bumper to open the back of their SUVs http://newatlas.com/ford-kick-activated-tailgate/21746/

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    3. you DO realize, I'm a car guy. I know these things. I've posted about them to share the info. It's what I do.

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