MT_Flyfisher
Life of the Party
Unlike in the older days, I believe that most Ford pickup trucks, at least the higher trim level ones, have had a torsion bar lift assist built into the tailgate at the factory. I’ve owned F150’s, and an F250, F350 and F450 trucks during the past 12 years or so, and none of them had tailgates that were particularly hard to close, even with them loaded with things like built in steps and backup cameras. And several years ago I took off the tailgate that was on my 2012 F350 dually by myself and carried it about 50‘ before putting a truck camper on the truck and I can tell you that tailgate was HEAVY!