Any tips on how best to remove the rubber tailgate spare tire spacer?

[JojoReady]

I just upgraded my tires to 285/70/17 and need to replace the rubber tailgate reinforcement spacers with the ones that come on squatch and badlands. Does anyone have any tips on how to easily get the existing ones off? It looks like they have a fastener like those pesky ones in the wheel well liners and I don’t want to cut them off. Any help is appreciated.

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[Brian_B]

It's a plastic screw inside of a plastic anchor - like a wall anchor you use to hang crap on drywall. It doesn't really engage to thread out.

It's horrible. Just pull really hard and it'll come off. I replaced the plastic screw with a metal screw and it engages much better. A rivet nut would be even better if I had the tool handy.

 

[JojoReady]

It's a plastic screw inside of a plastic anchor - like a wall anchor you use to hang crap on drywall. It doesn't really engage to thread out.

It's horrible. Just pull really hard and it'll come off. I replaced the plastic screw with a metal screw and it engages much better. A rivet nut would be even better if I had the tool handy.

Thank, I’ll give that a try.

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