Ford Bronco Tailgate Repair & ASSEMBLY: Part 3 of 3
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- How to completely disassemble and rebuild, repair and fix your Ford Bronco Tailgate. This is Part 3 of 3 in a very detailed series. These Broncos were known to have tailgate failures due to their design. We go step by step showing the best way to replace with new parts. Scroll below for link to the tools and components used to make this video. #fordbronco #tailgaterepair #bronco
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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 Rebuilding Glass Hardware
02:51 Installing Tailgate Glass
03:46 Attaching Slides To Glass
06:11 Attaching Window Motor harness and rear Defrost
11:56 Preparing Tailgate Cables
13:15 Installing Tailgate Cables ands Catches
14:13 Preparing and Installing Tailgate Seals
17:16 Installing Tailgate Corner Seals
18:27 Video Summary MUST WATCH
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Very helpful and informative information. Excellent video. You guys hit it out of the park. Very impressive. Thanks you very much.
Thank you. Hope it helps
You guys are the very best. So helpful very thorough and down into particulars. You are actually transmitting you experience to us. Can't thank you enough.
Thank you. I had some fantastic help on this video. Couldn’t of done it alone. other guys seem to think they should get compensated through PayPal or Venmo for sharing their life experience. I’ll never be that douche bag. Broncos For Life
WOW I can tell how good you are by the number of scratches on your hands and the fresh blood. If I was 20 years younger, I would take a 2 wk vacation and do that to my 1986 bronco , as is it is going to out last me without more repairs. You gentlemen are fantastic at explaining what you are doing . Glad I found your vid. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you. I had great help. It’s a 1 day job. You can do it!!!
That was a fantastic and extremely helpful series! That is how an instructional DIY video should be done. 😊
Thanks so much!
All 3 videos were very detailed and filmed superbly. You guys did a great job. I have a 1990 Bronco and the tailgate is getting worse each year so these videos will be of great help when I rebuild it.
Thank you!!
Thank you for the excellent video I will use it for my 93
Thanks. If you need used parts, email me.
Fantastic videos! Thank you!
Thx
Great video’s! I just happen to be in the process of restoring my Bronco and these videos came along at the perfect time!
Thank you! Please subscribe !!
Your videos saved the day for me on the safety switch bypass solving my problem. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you. They are fun To make
Hey Chris, you were a big help to me this weekend and finally back in the operable tailgate club lol. Thanks again for making these videos!
No problem. Thanks for watching and subscribing.
I'll be restoring my 1984 Bronco soon, thanks as the tailgate is a issue that details do matter.
Good luck. Email with any questions or contact Jeffs Bronco Graveyard for new parts. I sell used
Same here. '84. My window shattered when my nephew drove it with the windows cocked.
Once again ... Thanks Chris for another great Bronco rebuild video!
Thank you. Glad it helped
Your videos have been a huge help! Picked up a 1980 Bronco and just finished the tailgate
Very cool. Fun video series to make too!
These videos are awesome and well made. Thank you.
Thank you. Fun too make as well
Great video but, Im guessing you aren't drilling the holes for the spare tire holder? Can't find any videos on the best way to do that. Thanks
The best way we found would be to drill a pilot holes after the internal brace has been installed properly. If you have a right angle drill you can drill through the center of the welded bolts on the reinforcement plate.
Outstanding video! Thanks!
Thanks. Doing the best that I can!
great video!!! best on the web!!
Glad you think so!
Thanks you Guys! Great info and demo....
Thanks
Love your Awesome detail on this tailgate
Thank you!
Great instructions really enjoyed the video.
Thank you! please don't forget to subscribe!!!
Excellent tutorial. Much appreciated
Glad it was helpful!
Nice job and many thanks, guys! Thorough, for sure, and I appreciate the extra explanation of how the interlocks work. I have a tailgate that needs some love. Super helpful!
Thank you!
Great VDO the best how to fix rear window looking forward to your next ones, BTW the stair down was funny, I think throwing some of that funny stuff in your vdos makes it more entertaining. People are going to watch it, because like me I wanna fix it, but a laugh in between brakes if up and makes it fun to watch. Thanks again for the Great content.
Someday a “b-roll” of the video. All the different takes and clowning would be pretty funny.
Awesome videos thank you
Thank you
Hey Chris, you guys did a fantastic job on this video, just in time for me to or I just got a new tailgate. I have done work on my old one, of course, but it's time for a new one. Great job, though. Thanks, Jim.
Our pleasure!
Just got my 1980 Bronco tailgate went down and stopped 😂
Easy fix!!
Can you make neither short video about the wiring? Showing how it’s suppose to be on the inside from an inside view so it doesn’t get pinched.
It’s in part 2
Great videos guys. Wondering if you have a video on replacing the front headlight lens? Mine is all cloudy and would love to change the lens. Thanks and keep up the great work!
It’s in the works!!
What about installing it on the truck and setting the torsion bar?
We close the tailgate as much as possible and us a bent pipe to hold tension in place while attaching the bracket
Awesome video series, they helped me a ton. Thank you! I believe the tailgates came from the factory with a vapor barrier. My understanding is that they were rather cheap and certainly all long gone by now. How important do you think it is to make/replace one?
Thanks you. I’ve never seen vapor barrier in tailgate. I’d simply cut a piece of thin, semi-rigid pink foam sheeting to fit directly under the inspection plate. My concern with TG will always be sealing the bottom seams from the inevitable standing water. (But keeping drain holes open). In a quick follow up video we will show how we sealed up the outer/ lower edge of the tailgate seam.
In your hinge pins Video, can you show how to align the doors at the same time? Great Stuff by the way! Thanks
As long as it’s “not aligned” when we pin it all back together. Lol.
Great video. My biggest problem is dealing with the torsion bar during the removal and install to and from the truck... Any suggestions on how to relieve the pressure of the bar during the actual removal and reinstall process?
When you remove the torsion bar- try doing so with the tailgate closed as much as possible while a friend removes the pigtail bracket. Doing so removes some tension.
Hi Chris. Thank you so much for the video. You said to lubricate the window slides and you would do it later in the video. I can’t find where you did that. What did you use?
I used white lithium grease. If your in an area with no salt, try silicone lube. (Lube more often). The tailgates get dirty, hence no grease. But you can use whatever you like.
Outstanding video. One of the most useful videos I’ve found and I use RUclips videos for almost everything. I am rebuilding my tailgate so this was particularly helpful to me! I have two questions: (1) where can I buy new latches or what’s the best way to clean up and grease my existing latches?; and, (2) can you do an in depth video on rebuilding the tailgate wiring harness? I don’t have much experience with electrical wiring and this would really help me complete my tailgate rebuild. Thank you!!
Thanks. He latch mechanism we installed can be purchased as Jeffs Bronco Graveyard. Links in description. We also sell them used. The actual latches that grab the strikers on the truck body, we soak in parts cleaner and clean with small brushes. The use fluid film as lube. I would NOT sand blast. As far as the harness, rebuilding would be the painstaking task of unwrapping the harness and laying it all out to duplicate. We simply went thru ours, found the chaffed installation and either covered it up or cut out and repaired “black or green” corroded wire. We part out lots of broncos and occasionally pull really good harnesses as well. And we sell them.
Thanks! What do you recommend for lubricating the metal window tracks (where the plastic piece spin as window goes up/down)?
Would use silicone spray or very light lithium grease. Depends on the environment
I live in central Florida. Would you recommend one over the other? I’m hoping this resolve the fact that after pulling everything out and replacing it, the window still struggles to go up. Not sure what else my problem would be…
@@Tucker355 when you had the regulator out, did you try pushing the arms down and letting it snap back shut? We’ve taken out regulators that when you push the arms down, there’s so much corrosion and resistance they don’t overpower the return spring and they stay in the same position!!Also did you replace the felts that are in the vertical glass alignment tracks that mount on either side of the tailgate? I would use a very light, white lithium grease on the tracks and slides. But they need to be spotless before you apply any type of lubrication. Also look for a bad ground or fraying wires that would little the amount a voltage to the motor. Also if you ever had your top off, make sure when you put it back on, that you always install the bolts that hold the topper to the roof of your vehicle first and then work your way to the back. It will keep the top from leaking and it will line everything up properly. Perhaps you could email me a video. My email is in the video description
Hey Guys watched your tailgate videos after I bought a new tailgate from Bronco Gravyard. Now I wonder how I did mine and got it to work. Only problem I had was the dashboard rocker switch, which I find now the switches for the older models (bef 1992) are not available.
We sell them. Used. Email me
Absolutely great videos. I would have never gotten through my rear window issues without them. I do have one question. Do the motor and defroster harnesses go over or under the window tracks. I saw on the video that the main harness goes under the window track through the tailgate but did not see where it said to route the motor and defroster harnesses. Thanks again for the great work.
Thank you. My defrost was over the track.
@@BroncosandPartsGarage Thanks. Just to clarify, you are saying the defrost wiring goes over the window track and the motor wiring goes under the window track?
Ok, I got it figured out. Once you understand the window movement and how the harnesses have to move (or not move), it is apparent that both the defroster and motor harnesses have to go over the window track in order to stay out of the way and attach with the christmas tree fasteners into their locations. Keep up the good videos.
Any chance you have a link to purchase the Slide Track? My daughter replaced the rear window motor last night in her '85 bronco and one of the bolts on the slide track broke. Great videos by the way, really helps explain things to my kid.
All links are in the video description. Click on video title. Or email me. I sell the parts used as well. Thanks.
Do you guys recommend using any lubricant/silicone on the new felts for the glass?
No lube on felts. Just the white slides and regulator
As the wiring comes out of the motor, there is a 90 degree rubber boot with a foam/rubber piece to attach it. Where does it attach?
Please email me a pic. Email in description.
Great job now. How do I get my window down with the tailgate in in the motor bad
Motors rarely fail. See part 1. If you can power it up, you can get it down.
Hi Chris, my tailgate still weighs a ton to open and close. I saw in part 2 when y'all reinstalled the torsion bar but did I miss the part how it actually assists in opening and closing the tailgate? Thanks for the vids.
Once the torsion bar is installed, as seen in the video, and captured in the small pocket along with the two silver counter balance brackets, the portion sticking out of the tailgate is captured to the inner passenger side body by a “pigtail” shaped bracket between the hinge and cable. I can email you a picture if you email me. Once installed, as you lower your tailgate, the energy is stored in the torsion or tidying if that metal rod. You should be able to close a Tailgate with one hand.
@@BroncosandPartsGarage Hmm mine must be messed up inside because I see the bar in that bracket on the outside. I'll watch it again. Thanks again
@@keithmagruder8973 Usually the pocket on the driver side of the tailgate rots out and the torsion bar will come loose and if you’re lucky it will hit the bottom of the tailgate shell and not your glass. After our tailgate glass was installed we filled the torsion bar pocket with about a quarter can of rubberized undercoating‘s to keep water out of that pocket
Great video and noticed you referenced selling some parts. I have a 1993 and need a new key cylinder for rear electric tail gate. Can I buy one from you?
Yes. It’ll be a few weeks as we move locations. Email me.
How to identify the safety switch pair of wires from the other switch wires?
It’s been a while. Ill try n look at one of my extra harnesses ASAP.
Is there anyway I could get you guys to build me a tailgate like that for my 95?
Yes. Shipping would be pricy. Please email me. It’s in video description.
After installing new felt my window struggles to move up and down, any recommendations?
Have you checked your window regulator slides? Once dirty, they will slow window and eventually ruin motor
What lubricant do you recommend for the window slide tracks?
I have an issue where my glass slows down/ stalls during cold weather, at the halfway point when moving in either direction.
We used white lithium grease but more than likely your white slides are seized up.
Great video, and great series! After watching this series, I am thinking there is something wrong with my tailgate shell itself, as I now see there doesn't seem to be any adjustment in the side tracks that bolt to the sides of the tailgate. On my tailgate, the glass opens into the back of the Bronco, as in it doesn't follow the contour of the fiberglass top. I have to push out from the inside so that it goes into the grooves on the top. Perhaps the tailgate isn't aligned? Perhaps the aftermarket glass isn't contoured properly? I am wondering if starting with a fresh shell may be the ticket? Mine has the typical rust in the bottom, but is otherwise sound. The cost of the shells isn't terrible, but is the quality of the aftermarket shell worth not using an OEM shell? Etc, etc.....regardless, this video series lines it out perfectly, again, great work, and thank you!
The vertical guides the glass “rides” in can rust where they bolt onto the tailgate. So I would check all four of those bolts. You didn’t mention what year so I can’t help with glass or topper info. Jeffs Bronco Graveyard sells the shells and guts. Links in video description. I wouldn’t buy from a “non” Bronco dealer as you’ll want Bronco people selling you Bronco parts and Bronco customer support. New OEM shells are obviously long gone. Used OEM would be great but I’m in Detroit. They’re all rusted out. Good luck on your project. Don’t forget to subscribe and share this video !!
@@BroncosandPartsGarage Apologies, I should have mentioned that it is a 1985 XLT. I don't believe the top has ever been removed. The PO kept it in the garage for the past 30 years, but it wasn't a garage queen....he used it for a daily, as well as a hunting rig. When I had the glass replaced, I had "nearly" all of the guts replaced, including finding a Motorcraft motor. The fourt pieces I didn't replace were the two vertical guides, and the two sliders the bushings on the regulator slide in. Bad move on my part......damn! My Bronco is a New Mexico Bronco, so it is relatively rust free....just the tops of the rear wheelwells and the bottom of the tailgate. The rest is solid. I am not opposed to a new tailgate shell, as the cost to repair the rust, repaint, etc, etc, may actually come out to more money than the new shell. I hear the CAPA certification helps, but I think that's just against corrosion, not the balance of the construction. Thank you for the heads up on the vertical guides! I will look at those right away.....well, when the sun comes back up!
@@agar4278 well the glass should have a slight ark too it. I’ve never seen a capa tailgate but as long as you seal up the seams, shouldn’t be an issue. Keep me posted or find my email in description.
@@BroncosandPartsGarage Will do, thank you!!
I just have one question my slides are original and are riveted together so how would I go about putting those on? Slide over the Regulator part first then bolt it to the glass or some other way?
Drill them out and the new go on with a threaded stud and nut.
I rebuilt the tail gate, new torsion bar and seals. I am working on the swing arm tire carrier, replacing the bushings. I have not been able to knock the pins loose. Any suggestions?
These are tough. And plastic. I’ve never taken one apart personally. Post the question in the FB group Broncos And Parts Garage. I know guys have rebuilt them with bronze bushings!!!
It appears the new tailgate from JBG does not appear to accept the exterior silver pannel. I want to keep the origional look of my 1996 XLT so I'd like to keep it on if at all possible. Any suggestions?
It can be done, Option 1. Use a piece of cardboard and press it onto your silver panel allowing the studs to pierce the cardboard. Then you want to trace out the lock hole. you’ll use the cardboard as a template on your new tailgate. And you’ll use the lock hole to align your template perfectly. Option 2- it’s not the easiest task to perform, it would involve putting a grease marker on all of the studs coming out of your silver panel. And then placing it on the TG and using that as a template to drill your holes. The bonus to this, would be if you were off slightly, the holes will be covered if you need to make them larger or oval them out slightly. The lock hole is your biggest challenge. Or simply take your Bronco to a detailing shop and have a vinyl image of the tailgate panel installed on your tailgate. Thanks for the question and please remember to subscribe and like the content.
I just rebuilt mine window won't move???? I tested the motor with a battery and it works
Email me
@@BroncosandPartsGarage OK whats your email?
Any tips for fixing the defroster connector on the window? Mine have snapped off
There are a variety of companies that make an adhesive that has conductive properties. Just search online or Amazon.
@@BroncosandPartsGarage Thanks for the quick reply. I'll check that out. Awesome video's as well! Been going through the motions on my 91 XLT, rebuilt the transmission and the 351, stainless exhaust, steering box and column, and now going to tighten up the little things then do the suspension.
After installing a new aftermarket tailgate i can't get the gaps to match. It still needs to come up 1/8 on the passenger side but the gap on the top
drivers' side is almost closed. Being 76 years old isn't helping any.
Sorry your having trouble. The strikers have some adjustability.
I just realized yesterday that part of my problem might be that the window is not even. The right side is slightly higher than the left. Any suggestions on how I fix that?
That usually caused by the small white sliders being stuck in their tracks. And not pivoting or being corroded. It’s an easy fix once you get it taken apart.
Where did you buy your window motor?
In my window Motor video and my tailgate Repair Video, there are links in the video description
Any idea how to replace the tailgate aluminum trim that has the Ford logo? It looks like the new parts come without any holes. Also, it's hard to find it.
The seals can be done. Just a bit harder to do. For the metal panel You’ll need to make a paper or cardboard template and measure twice. Drill once!!! Or have a tint shop just make one out of vinyl wrap. We sell the metal panels. Used.
@@BroncosandPartsGarage I'm planning to buy an XL and add that trim to it. It looks empty without it.
@@BroncosandPartsGarage Thanks!
@@BroncosandPartsGarage You guys are awesome, I subscribed and I'll buying parts too!
Do you have catalog of parts and maybe a manual that contains exploded views
I do not. Try getting an old chiltons manual.
Chris - I've emailed u w/ parts request but no reply...is there another way to contact you?
I’ll check spam folder.