Help - Midgate Issues

[cutthroat]

Ok, I know I am opening myself up to all sorts of moron comments but I have a problem.

I have only had my Av for 1.5 weeks and tried for the first time this morning to lower my midgate with the window in place.

Now it was early and I had not had any coffee but it seems to me this is simple yet I could not get the thing to open.

Please be kind and review for me the process to do this on an '03. I must be really simple.

Thanks in advance.

cutthroat

 

[Nightshark]

All there is to it is turn the middle handle and pull. You may need to find a place you can grab somewhere on the midgate to help you pull. If it has not been opened in a while and is still new, it may feel stuck, but as long as you are turning the handle, it is safe to pull on the midgate. She will open.

 

[EarthQuake]

Yeah, just lower the seats. ?and turn the handle clockwise I think (follow the arrows). ?The handle will not be folding down, the area below the handle and the bar the handle is on ?will be folding down.
When the window is out, the entire bar/handle area will lower too. It's a smart truck don't ask me how it knows.

 

[cutthroat]

Thanks guys,

At least I know I wasn't doing anything wrong.

I got it. As it turns out the rear window has a tab at the bottom of it that pushes down on a small mechanism letting the midgate know that the window is in and that it should not come down with the crossbar. Without that mechanism being pushed down the midgate brings the crossbar but if the window is in and the mechanism isn't fully depressed the midgate simply doesn't open at all - crossbar or no crossbar.

I guess the dealer or factory personnel didn't put the window in properly and align the arrows. That made the mechanism not push down fully and therefore, early morning madness.

I'm better now and I just earned 8 or ten bucks doing the full change. Cool.

Thanks again for the guidance.

cutthroat

 

[rus_bro]

Figured i would throw this in there.. i was just having some issues with the midgate on my 2012.  it would release but stop about 2" after opening... figured there was a release i was missing or a cable that wasnt getting pulled by the folding seats...

NOPE... the bedliner that overlaps the midgate from inside of the bed had slid forward and was binding or grabbing the gate and not letting it fall.  a little brute force got it open.  Then slid the bed liner back in place and FIXED..

just something to watch out for.

rb

 

[rus_bro]

Figured i would throw this in there.. i was just having some issues with the midgate on my 2012.  it would release but stop about 2" after opening... figured there was a release i was missing or a cable that wasnt getting pulled by the folding seats...

NOPE... the bedliner that overlaps the midgate from inside of the bed had slid forward and was binding or grabbing the gate and not letting it fall.  a little brute force got it open.  Then slid the bed liner back in place and FIXED..

just something to watch out for.

rb

so.. expanding on this one.  I drop the midgate again and SAME issue.. so its NOT the sliding of the mat, BUT there are kinda little cushion things stuck to the end of the part of the mat that slides on the back of the midgate.  I guess the heat got to them and the sticky part of them slide and was sticking the cover to the midgate.  the damn stickers are STRONG SON... was holding the gate up very well.. so i adjusted the sticker/pad things and FIXED (again)...

rb