skyshadow Posted December 23, 2015 Report Share Posted December 23, 2015 I like the ideas of cup/beer holders and tool box area underneath. 1 Quote Link to comment
5t341tH Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 awesome! I want to do this, but without the supports. I wonder how it would hold up? 2 Quote Link to comment
fritzdixxon Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Turn the support s into dividers and leave them in 2 Quote Link to comment
distributorguy Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 A piece of aluminum that small (narrow) is likely strong enough to do the job with no added supports, given you use enough fasteners to secure it to the tailgate. You are turning a relatively flat, flexible tailgate into a secure box by adding the inner cover. And it already has 3 supports - the ends and center so its effectively double boxed. Now picture the flexibility of that small piece of aluminum that covers half the tailgate. Its nearly indestructible! The factory needed extra supports because the tin cover was cheesy and not structural. 1 Quote Link to comment
BURNEDORANGE620 Posted January 1, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Looks great! Nice work! I agree, looks nice! Excellent job Clean mod well done !! Thank you! Thanks for the compliment! 1 Quote Link to comment
Charlie69 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 Sweet nice work. Quote Link to comment
1Low620 Posted January 1, 2016 Report Share Posted January 1, 2016 You should be aware that in the future you will have intermetalic corrosion between the Aluminum plate and the steel structure. Probably but not exclusively at the screws to Aluminum plate interface. The USAF found out the hard way and prescribed a specific sequence of metalic washers for every Copper bus bar to Aluminum aircraft structure. Yes you have Aluminum to steel, not Copper to Aluminum! No I don't have a copy of that Tech Order, but any High School Chemistry or Phisics text books has a table called "The Electromotive Sequence of Metals", the rule of thumb is "No more that 0.25 volts difference between adjoining metals." The refurbishment of the Statue of Liberty ran into similar problems with the steel to Copper skin panels. This is correct, you should not use Stainless steel hardware with ANY aluminum material, this will create a galvanic reaction that will eat / corrode everything around it over time. Your best option would be zinc plated or even plain alloy and paint them. Will zinc plated / plain fasteners rust over time? Yep and so will stainless steel, only at a faster rate when combined with aluminum. 1 Quote Link to comment
G-Duax Posted February 16, 2018 Report Share Posted February 16, 2018 Too bad all the pictures are gone......:( 1 Quote Link to comment
5t341tH Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 google up "photobucket fix" and you will have all your pictures back. firefox and chrome both have the fix for it Too bad all the pictures are gone...... :( 1 Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 That doesn't fix the issue, the fix makes it so you can see your own photos, but you still cannot see others photos, I cannot see any photos in this thread and I do have the fix/extension, he is talking about the original posters photos, and he has not been logged in for over a year. google up "photobucket fix" and you will have all your pictures back. firefox and chrome both have the fix for it 2 Quote Link to comment
Moist Lightning Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 That doesn't fix the issue, the fix makes it so you can see your own photos, but you still cannot see others photos, I cannot see any photos in this thread and I do have the fix/extension, he is talking about the original posters photos, and he has not been logged in for over a year. Try a different plugin, I can see em all. 1 Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 Try a different plugin, I can see em all. I have the "Photobucket embed fix" he was talking about in the link supplied, I am using the Google Chrome browser :( , that fix in the link doesn't make it so one can see all others photos hosted using Photolame and I am not the only one that has mentioned this, one may get different results depending on what type of computer one uses, I have a desk top. 1 Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted February 18, 2018 Report Share Posted February 18, 2018 I post pictures that anyone can see. I wouldn't piss on Photobucket if it caught on fire. 2 Quote Link to comment
5t341tH Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 That doesn't fix the issue, the fix makes it so you can see your own photos, but you still cannot see others photos, I cannot see any photos in this thread and I do have the fix/extension, he is talking about the original posters photos, and he has not been logged in for over a year. I see all pictures. try a different plugin 1 Quote Link to comment
wayno Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 I see all pictures. try a different plugin OK, I searched it again and seen the normal chrome fix that I already had, I kept going down the list and something caught my eye, it said that the fix had to be updated in mid 2017, I removed the fix I had and have had for a very long time, I added the fix to my extensions again and I can see every ones photos at this time, in the past this extension didn't work this way, it only allowed one to see their own photos, this is something new to me, I can even see the MX520 photos now. I believe that I will add this information to the Photolame thread so people know that they need to update the extension, it would help if you told everyone that cannot see the photos that the chrome fix needs to be updated, thankyou for making me look deeper into this. 3 Quote Link to comment
Ricky116 Posted February 19, 2018 Report Share Posted February 19, 2018 I always thought the inner liner was a 79 only thing on all 620 trucks. I used the oem liner and made a trellis of small steel square tubing, following the the contour of the liner. I wellded it onto the inner liner. Then I had it rhino lined and installed it on my gate . it’s is heavy but very rigid it works great. Quote Link to comment
Goemon Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Even though it shows in the manuals & diagrams the two extra supports for the inside, my 79 with the panel did not have them, and I bought her in 87 . She was still intact. Even had the owners manual and notes, I am 2nd or 3rd owner Quote Link to comment
datzenmike Posted March 24, 2020 Report Share Posted March 24, 2020 Only available as an option on trucks with a May '76 and up build date. Quote Link to comment
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