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dnsfailure said:
I've been genuinely surprised at how much weight the tailgate will hold :lmao:

Still opens and closes just fine. I think if I were doing alot of this rock unloading, I would probably remove the tailgate and make one that lifts upwards, or maybe swings out like a door, instead of down like a tailgate.
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I really miss the ability to tip it up, unhook 2 linkages and lift it off. My 91 Chevy tailgate weighed 50 or 60 pounds. Why does everything have to be so damn complicated and expensive?
 
Firstram said:
I really miss the ability to tip it up, unhook 2 linkages and lift it off. My 91 Chevy tailgate weighed 50 or 60 pounds. Why does everything have to be so damn complicated and expensive?
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I think that's how mine comes off, but I also have wires run to a backup camera that I have mounted above the tailgate handle. I suppose I could put a quick disconnect on the wires.
 
another thing that impresses me about the 7.3 and 6 speed manual when I'm unloading these rocks, I'm not touching the throttle at all. zero. I have 1 foot on the brake, and I'm slowly letting out the clutch in 1st gear. It just doesn't want to stall. I love it. :smokin:. over 300k miles, and on the 2nd clutch :smokin:
 
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[memphis] said:
These didn’t work as well as I thought. I had to bend a panel seam back and the jaws in these were fawked. I found them in the middle of the road years ago. I used .125” scrap but it’s too flimsy
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the factory built ones have a bit of cup to the jaws so they contact at the outside edges first and therefore have a little spring tension keeping it clamped out there
 
dnsfailure said:
another thing that impresses me about the 7.3 and 6 speed manual when I'm unloading these rocks, I'm not touching the throttle at all. zero. I have 1 foot on the brake, and I'm slowly letting out the clutch in 1st gear. It just doesn't want to stall. I love it. :smokin:. over 300k miles, and on the 2nd clutch :smokin:
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when the idle is governed either by a flyweight governor or the computer it'll (functionally) operate the gas pedal to prevent stalling for you
well, to a certain point, most of them won't go all the way to full-fuel for rod bearing life concerns
 
[486] said:
when the idle is governed either by a flyweight governor or the computer it'll (functionally) operate the gas pedal to prevent stalling for you
well, to a certain point, most of them won't go all the way to full-fuel for rod bearing life concerns
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yeah, it likes to hold it's RPM regardless of load (to an extent..), I like that :)
 
arse_sidewards said:
And carry more gravel without caving the sheetmetal between the crossmembers.

There's really no reason not to run a drop in.
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ehhh the fenderwells would get a little munkled up
if it were an ugly stepside though...
Nah, still gotta get the bedliner out from under the pile of rock
 
[486] said:
ehhh the fenderwells would get a little munkled up
if it were an ugly stepside though...
Nah, still gotta get the bedliner out from under the pile of rock
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They make bed liners with wheel wells ribbed like the floor. Must be stupid expensive because I've only ever seen them a few times and always on government trucks.

If you don't dump the gravel in hard they'll probably be fine either way. :laughing:
 
the bed as a rubber mat on the floor of it, but I have that folded up. I doubt this stuff would be sliding out with the rubber mat in place :lmao:. I know this is scratching up the bed, but I don't care, it's scratched and dented up already. I pretty much only use it for hauling stuff.
 
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