I bought a dump truck with a baxter built aluminum bed and will be hauling sand and gravel. The operator side is bowed about 1/4 inch in the middle on the vertical rise, there is a 1/2 inch round piece of a aluminum heliarched to the tailgate, on the inside to cit down on the gap but I can still see daylight and am worried that I will be losing sand on the highway. How can the tailgate be straightened to get a good seal
how to straighten a tailgate
Discussion in 'Tanker, Bulk and Dump Trucking Forum' started by uhjohnson, Oct 24, 2014.
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Aluminum cracks pretty easy, if its just a 1/4" maybe weld a little more material on there, or remove some high spots to close the gap a little? Wet sand won't seep out the cracks like dry sand will, maybe try dumping a bucket of the wetter sand on that spot. A good welder who knows aluminum could probably do a real nice job.
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Just curious what about a steel tailgate? Is welding the only way?
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Use plywood. Just make sure you screw where the ribs are so the screws don't go through the gate.
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I was thinking there was a way to re bend it.
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A guy I used to drive for had me back my loaded truck on a tailgate that another driver bent pretty bad dumping on a pile.
usually for small gaps plywood is the easiest way to fix it -
Anything harder than 5054 aluminum should be heated while bending. Stated here> http://www.thefabricator.com/article/bending/bending-basics-the-fundamentals-of-heavy-bending,
And the physical world agree's, lol. Don't destroy that bulkhead,lol.
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