Sounds like you need some rem oil... or maybe white lithium grease in this case.
Lube up the latches on either side of the gate, and open the access
panel on the inside of the gate (assuming its the same as a Gen1/2)
and lube up the mechanism in there. Obviously if you have a bed liner,
you'll have to take the gate portion of it off to get to the access
hole.
Don in CT
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 8:09 AM, Jim Zito <conv442@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> OK my fellow gun nuts will understand that reference, for those who
> don't.....
>
> Tailgate on the Dakota doesn't like to play anymore, I open it and generally
> the handle stays up...I can deal with that but often times, even with the
> handle "re-cocked" it still won't close. Further investigation showed that
> there are little levers by the actual latches that need to be reset as well.
>
> Now I can work around this but, I'd like to figure out what I need to do to
> restore the modern "double action" operation to the tailgate.
>
> Jim
> 03 red full time 2wd CC Dak missing 2 pistons and pants that like to fall
> down....
>
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