Easy one for you...

[heavy4x4]

Vehicle: 2000 Chevy Silverado 1500 4x4, ECSB.

 

I have a plastic bedliner (purchased and installed by previous owner), and there are two machine screws in the center of tailgate holding the bedliner on. My questions are:

 

1) Do these screws hold the tailgate handle assembly in? I'm assuming that's what they do because of the placement.

 

2) Do they thread into a solid piece of steel, as opposed to something aluminum or thin sheetmetal?

 

3) If the answer to number 1 is yes, then if I remove these screws, will my tailgate handle assembly fall into a deep black hole never to be seen again?

 

Thanks everyone!

-Steve

[JAF1]

Vehicle: 2000 Chevy Silverado 1500 4x4, ECSB.

 

I have a plastic bedliner (purchased and installed by previous owner), and there are two machine screws in the center of tailgate holding the bedliner on.  My questions are:

 

1) Do these screws hold the tailgate handle assembly in?  I'm assuming that's what they do because of the placement.

 

2) Do they thread into a solid piece of steel, as opposed to something aluminum or thin sheetmetal?

 

3) If the answer to number 1 is yes, then if I remove these screws, will my tailgate handle assembly fall into a deep black hole never to be seen again?

 

Thanks everyone!

-Steve

 

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1) Yes.

2) Forget.

3) No, but undo them with the tailgate down to be sure.

[redvett]

#1 Yes

#2 latch has weld nuts.

#3 Have T/G open and remove the three bolts & re installation my require adjusting the postion of the latch/ handle to make both sides of T/G unlatch correctly.