yeahhhhhhhh sumpdin like dat...heheheheheheeeee
ya`ll just be careful who yo mezzin wit up in the northeast here....HAHAHAHAAAAA

I agree CapN, about the 99cent T-gate fix... "less is more"

 

Of course you realize that Texas women do not get PMS. Down here they get something called "FTS" (Fixin' to start).

Maybe I should buy up a sh**load of 2" hose clamps and re-label 'em as "Tailgate Theft Preventers", put 'em in a pretty Red, White & Blue blister pack and market them for $19.95 apiece.

 

"FTS":
naw dazz sum fun-knee **** rott thir i tellz ya ...!!! (heheheeee)

"Tailgate Theft Preventer`s" $19.95 apiece:
THAT my friend, sounds like a hell of a plan, overnite millionaire in the making....!

 

I have a T304 Stainless clamp on mine.I have it angled so that you need a swivel socket in order to take it off. That takes time and deters would be theives who are looking for a quick ******-n-grab.

 

Yup. Mine is angled so that the only way you can remove it is close the tailgate & crawl under with a long screwdriver or ¼" socket with a 10" extension. Ergo it certainly can be removed, but there'll be no grab & run. If you want it, you're going to have to want it some kinda bad.

 

Positively amazing the crap folks will buy at a county fair or at the upcoming Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo. I have a friend who has an electroplating "bidness" - Think how many we could sell if they were chrome!! Just need a couple "good old boys" (Bubba types) to run the sales counter. Maybe sell 'em at truck stops...

....."Interstate 10 we's truckin' along, just me an' old Sloan (old Sloan's my dog) had an 18-wheeler with a 10 on the floor & a stereo, layin' a strip. Then we spied a sign said EAT GAS NOW and decided to whip in and pick up some chow at the Old Home Filler-up and keep on a-truckin' Cafe."
- C.W. McCall 1972 -


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Bubba types....roflmao... yez zer ree`... couple of dem type would do da trick...lol. 30min electroplate = Be Very SHYKNEEEEE
I think i saw a band style pad lock for a tailgate not long ago...might have been on the styln trucks website.
If i find it i`ll pop the link in here. I thought that was a kewl thing too..!

RIP CW McCall

 

Tailgate Padlock $19.99
http://www.stylintrucks.com/parts/ta...ock/23557.aspx

 

Yep, seen it. They have the exact same gizmo in stock at my local truck goodie store, (Kool Karz) which my wife says I absolutely must stay out of without her along as a chaperone. (sort of like me "escorting" her to the shoe store)

Fortunately we're both older than dirt now, (we are great-grandparents) so neither of us shop like we once did. However, I can attest that the "blue pills" work -as advertised- even at the ripe old age of 66. -)

 

Apologies to all for the second follow-up. Rude, crude & ignorant I know. However, the thought just occurred to me about this tailgate "lock" gizmo, as to why you would necessarily want a "lock"? I mean, when the hell would you ever need to un-lock it except for the one and only time you had your bedliner sprayed-in.

More'n likely you'd never unlock it once installed and then if you ever needed to, what are the chances you'd remember where you put the dang key?

I stand by my original simple design: A 49¢ *(price correction) worm-drive 2" hose clamp installed with the screw head facing forward (requiring you to close the tailgate & finish tightening it from underneath). No one will steal your tailgate and you don't have to turn the house upside-down looking for the key or worry about the lock siezing up from rust or your factory lock freezing in cold weather.

*(they're actually 2 for 97¢ at Wally World)

You're never too old to learn something stupid.