Smooth tailgate

I made a smooth tailgate out of some scrap I had left over from another project. I have a guy gonna line x it for free

 

Nice

 

Not bad at all.

 

I’ll load up the finished pic after I get it line-x and put back on

 

I rent heavy equipment, so I see tons and tons of different contractor company trucks. Boldt company, does that to every one of thier trucks. It works great. Thier tailgates are always fine. Most of the trucks after a year or two the tailgate is destroyed. Good idea man.

 

I like it

 

Hope you don't burn your bum bum

 

Post some dimensions, so we can bypass more *expensive* options. Is yours bowed from the supports?

 

I just pull the factory one off and measured the inside and cut to fit and rounded the corners so it would fit inside it an marked all the hole and drilled them used a 3/4hole saw were the latch goes the filed it straight

 

Don't the supports sit proud? Does your plate bow?

 

It is flat when you take the old one off

 

What an awesome idea! I might have to do this on my truck

 

Probably gonna do something like this when I source some aluminum sheet. I'm undecided on linex-ing or bedliner-ing though, as it's useful to be able to slide and rotate boxes/etc on the tailgate when loading or unloading.