my buddy came over to drop off some tie down straps and well, we got his tailgate to go with the dovetail. and mocked up a skidplate, ect.

PICS!!!!

 

Nice man!

 

Nice!

 

I sir am a noob but im going to guess you made it smaller since it looks like the bed sides are curved in

 

yep, took 12 3/8" out of it.

most precise measuring i've done in a while. most of the stuff i've been doing, like the skid plate i made, has just been holding it up, eye balling it, marking and cutting haha

 

Nice. Did you guys use a handle relocator so you can still open/close the gate like factory?

 

sweet!

 

is his ranger really turbo? or does it just got the decal

 

is my ranger really a type R?

 

Nice Matt, it looks 10x cleaner. I bet that bed is flopping around alot less now.



No but it is ricey and fairly gay....

 

LMAO

 

naw, that was way too much work.. i just took the panel off the inside and i can open it by pulling the pins that were connected to the handle

it HAD the decal, thats the sticky/foamy **** still on there. the Cummins badge is also gone off the back window.

but damn.. i can tell ya i feel the loss of power.

putting the floor back in helped a ton more.

but idk. it probably helped a bit, between that and the ratchet strap i have holding 2 more spares in the bed..

 

looks good. i could never trust my self enough to do that

 

Looks good. At first I forgot what you had done to the bed and I was thinking that for some reason you were putting hinges on the side so the tailgate would open out and not down.

 

haha!
i figured if i really messed it up that bad it would just force me to make something out of tube

 

You should remover the website sticker off the tailgate now and throw a little white spray paint down that seam.

 

That's the right idea. lol

Looks great. Time to make an indestructible bumper!!

 

its a low spot, i'm either gonna fill it in with weld, or bondo it, them i'm gonna paint it.

and don't worry, the sticker is coming off. I'm kinda mad, i scratched up the RANGER and Ford badge :(

oh its on the list.. the truck didnt look bad w/o one when i didnt have a tail gate.. now it looks stupid. i have some 2x4x1/4 and 2x3x3/16 and some 2x2x3/16? maybe 1/8 laying around..

 

Almost looks like a stepside tailgate would have been close.

 

Looks pretty good.

26 and 7/8's wide?

BTW, *****!

 

Looks sick

 

i meant to measure one but never got around to it ha, w/e i have noting better to do.. actually i have a ton of better things to do but no money to do them.

is a step side tail gate 26 7/8? please tell me its not. i know you read that from what i had written on there.

and no.. now its <<****!! haha

 

I don't believe it is, I was asking if that's what yours was, due to the picture of it written on there, lol. I suppose I could go measure one for you. Or maybe somebody with a stepside could, as I would have to go find one, LOL!

 

yea i didnt want to walk up to some random truck and measure the tail gate.

 

It looks as though yours is still a tad bid wider then a stepside, IMO, but I could be wrong.