Gotcha. Or as Antoine (in the movie Free Guy) would say… “That’s baadd”
I thought I had seen some that bad before, but with your extensive experience, you would know.
The sockets on the new tailgates must be bigger, because the polyurethane pads from the silencer parts, at least ours, fit extremely tightly inside the socket. Making the actual pivot point the stub axle on the body mounted bracket.
The poly is so tight in the tailgate that the only thing to turn would be the poly on the bracket.
Unless the few that I’ve tried it on just happen to be tighter than the normal tailgate side sockets.
That’s another thing theory we should test.
All the ones I’ve fiddled with were on factory original tailgates, except for one. That one was Dennis Carpenter piece from several years ago.