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Old 11-30-2006, 03:00 PM   #3 (permalink)
FloridaEd
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Re: 5th Wheel Tailgate or will the Stock Tailgate work?

Your regular tail gate will work just fine.....and you will eventually forget to drop it when hitching up or unhitching and bend it....and then go buy a 5'ver tail gate after you've ruined the factory tailgate.

And don't tell me you won't do it. EVERYBODY does it, sooner or later. If you don't want to spend the money on a 5'ver tailgate, buy a net to stretch across the opening and REMOVE your tailgate anytime you are towing.

In the campgrounds on 5th wheel haulers, there are two types of tailgates: 5'ver tailgates and bent factory tailgates.

Buy the 5'ver tailgate now and save the factory tailgate for for reinstallation when you trade on the next truck, or bend the factory tailgate and still buy a 5'ver tailgate, but have to buy a new factory tailgate for a trade.

Florida ED......bent two factory tailgates before I learned my lesson
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2007 Kymco People 250cc Scooter, 64MPG, 75 MPH, Let the Arabs eat their oil

2001 7.3 F-350 Dually Lariat CC LWB 4X2 Dark Green 4.10 4R100 5'ver Hauler (32' Montana 2 slides 10,500# - 2,000# tongue weight), 106 gal aux tank, 119K miles, nephews arguing over who will inherit it 'cause I'm gonna' drive it 'til I die. Bone stock.

2001 5.4 Gasser F-250 XLT Crewcab SWB 4X2 3.73 4R100 67K miles headed to 150K (wife's vehicle on the "junk-iron" theory of vehicle safety....most junk iron wins in a crash) stock as the day it was made

Before these: '00 F-250 CC PSD, '97 F-250 CC PSD, '94 Ford F-150, '91 Ford E-250, '81 Ford E-150, '66 Ford F-100 (cars not included)
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