The Stovebolt Site Forums The Shop Area Making a Stovebolt Bed Did You Know Your Tailgate Could Do This?

Maybe this should be posted in the Who Uses His Truck As A Truck? thread but I'm starting a new thread anyway.

You guys probably already know this and will probably laugh your butts off but I just learned something new about AD trucks.

I was using the bed as a work bench to fix a leaking gas tank on a blower. As usual I lowered the tailgate all the way down to rest on the top of the rear bumper. I then looked at it and decided to see if the chains could be hooked into the gate to keep it sticking straight out when open.

They can and do! The original chains are the exact length required to hold the tailgate perfectly level with the bed like modern trucks. I never knew that and maybe other people never knew that, either. For all I know it tells you that in the owner's manual but I don't have one of those.