In the past few years the fiberglass on my hatch of my Ramcharger had been seperating and tearing. I recently got a new hatch and have installed it onto my Ramcharger. However it will not latch. I have tested the mechanisim and it works fine using the key button but it will not latch onto the truck. Is there some point I need to adjust on the truck itself to allow the hatch to latch?

 

I have a 91 Ramcharger that have the same problem. The hinges started sagging and started cracking the fiberglass. I took the door off tonight finding out I had to cut the wires there is no connector for the wires. Anyways have the door in my garage right now. I had to use a dremel and cutting wheel to cut away the fiberglass overlay to see whats going on in there. The bracket is pulling away out of its setting. I used some gorilla opoxy and with clamp to hold bracket back into where I thing it is supposed to be concidering the other side was just starting to crack. So I used other side as guide as where it should be. I dont think this will work by itself. That is alot of weight for that small section that is trying to hold the huge liftgate. Tomorrow I am going to try to bracket in some kinda of extra support. Looking at it tonight have no clue how I am going to do that with out getting in way of it shutting properly. Hoping tomorrow will bring some new ideals. Will let you all know how this goes.

 

Well it did not work, perhaps mine were to far cracked but probably would have held if i did not put the shock arms back on. When u close the hatch those arms put ALOT of pressure against the hinges. Soon as I can find a good door to replace it with will not be putting shocks back on will use a stick to hold open or something, these doors are way to hard to find to keep happening. If anyone has any ideas or comments feel free to email me at artie1078@yahoo.com