Originally Posted by 13FX150

BG what bulbs are you running in your fog lights? I hate the factory bulbs in mine as they look yellow compared to the HID headlights. Yours looks bright white. Like the raster lights as well.

Originally Posted by JRVicHammer

I can't take credit for that idea but it is a good one. I came across that in this thread.

http://www.fordraptorforum.com/f11/e...-solved-15369/

I also used the method described in this thread to complete the install without the need for the nutsert. Works great!

Originally Posted by RES4CUE

Genius!!!!!

I just noticed my SECOND nutsert coming loose again and yes I did more than the 9 turns, it was about 12 and a half.

I was at the beach for a week and the tailgate got a workout every day putting stuff in and taking it out and loading people in and out to go drive on the beach. I assume it came loose then. Was going to rack my brain to come up with a solution when I saw this post!

Took me longer to gather tools than it did to do the mod.

Originally Posted by Left Plate

IDK about genius? For the amount of time it takes to take that thing apart and modify tools to make it work. The simple solution, as suggested by someone else much earlier in this thread, is to drill a hole beside the factory hole and tap it! But, whatever works?

Originally Posted by ShapeShifter

Well, I just put mine on. (And then it started raining while I was in the middle of the power tailgate lock mod. )

Using the information in this thread, I was particularly cautious about the nutsert. At 8 turns, it started snugging up. I kept going and at 10.5 turns it was getting quite snug. I stopped at 11 turns as it was getting very tight and I didn't want to overdo it.

I then put in the ball stud, finger tight at first. Then, using a torque wrench, it took a couple turns at just a few foot pounds before it started firming up. It was finally about four more turns before I hit the designated 8 foot pounds. I marked the nutsert before torquing the ball stud, and the nutsert did not twist. So it seems to me that torquing the ball stud tightens up the nutsert by a few more turns, perhaps the same as those extra turns of the nut using the installation tool?

To those people who are experiencing nutserts that loosen up: did you use a torque wrench to put in the ball stud? How many turns did it take to get to torque? Might some of the nutsert failures be due to improper torquing (too little or too much?)

I love the way the tailgate assist works! Hopefully the nutsert is tightened properly and won't start coming loose.

Originally Posted by RES4CUE

I used the years of tightening things to gauge how tight to get the ball stud.

Originally Posted by ShapeShifter

I was surprised how little torque is used on the ball stud - 8 ft-lbs isn't much! I wonder if your experienced wrench hand might have over over-torqued the nutsert?

As you start to tighten the nutsert, it expands inside the tailgate and starts to clamp on the back side of the sheet metal. But if you over tighten it, the back side of the nutsert could deform, and perhaps pull away from the sheet metal - or it could simply weaken the nutsert so that stresses over time distort it and loosen it.

8 ft-lbs isn't much torque at all. And the nutserts are made of quite soft metal (they have to be in order to expand inside the tailgate.) I wonder if some of the failures people are reporting are due to over-torquing the stud, rather than not enough turns of the nutsert installation tool?