Easy Down Tailgate

That's like 7,000 cycles a year at 5 days a week.
I would probably learn how to replace them even though it's probably been tested to 100K cycles or so. Lots of reasons they could fail that would shorten the life substantially.

 

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Thanks. I’ll take it off this week and see what’s going on.

Thanks everyone. At least I know where to look. All have been a big help.

 

Your probably right.

 

if your worried about theft on your tailgate, there was a thread on a lock for it and also just putting a hose clamp around the right side, that's what I did just in case, easy theft prevention..

 

Aha! There is the part. That’s why I was asking If OP had removed his tailgate. Just didn’t know the name of that part. Good luck OP, and I’m bookmarking this thread.