Pickup Tailgate Brackets for Mounting to Flat Surface

hey Freddie with CJ pointy parts one of the key features of earning a truck is the tailgate it allows for easy storage and unloading however if you're not careful when letting it down it can come crashing down and damage itself or nearby objects one way to make your tailgate a little safer and last longer is by adding an assist shock to control the tailgates drop rate today we're going to improve the life span and safety of our tailgate by installing this DZ truck tailgate assist on our project f-150 EcoBoost tools you'll need for this installation a quarter inch ratchet ten millimeter socket and a five millimeter hex key the tailgate assist shock that we're going to be installing today only works on the driver side so that's where we're going to begin our install we're going to start off by working on this lower bracket here and removing this bolt and loosening this one don't completel