I'm currently dealing with my
second bad shipment of a Ford bed extender from Levittown. They've been great, but I don't know what to do at this point.
The first one I bought had everything I needed, minus one of the huge center bolts. They said for me to send the entire kit back, and they opened another box and said that both bolts were in the second kit. Great, I get the second kit, and yes, both center bolts are in there, yet now there's no black washers for this thing to rotate on. So I hop on the YouTube and sure enough, I see that some 2022's have threads, and some don't. What in the world... So I run out and look at mine, and I don't have threads.
What the kit did come with, was these pressed-together washer-nut things which don't even freakin' thread on to the bolt. I get the logistics of it, but it just doesn't go. Impact wrench and all, it ain't going. See picture below.
Anyway, so now I have this second kit and can't use it, even it I went to Lowe's like the guy in the video above, as I don't have the large black washers and it's not 'tight' even if it were to be able to be installed. I'm hitting up my dealer tomorrow in person to see if they can scrounge up something, so maybe I can poke around their lot and see what their trucks use if one has a factory extender in it.
I can only imagine that this is what's supposed to be holding the bed extender on. The large washer presses against the bed, behind the taillight, easily enough. But the threads aren't matching. Ain't understand over here.