After months of looking around and not willing to spend $500+ on a decent tailgate. I decided to "fix" mine. It will forever be known as DONORGATE!
It maybe hard to see but dents around the handle area and to near to body lines make it un fixable... For me anyway.
I kinda got luck and this tailgate that was destined for the scrap heap, which oddly had no problems where mine did.
I carefully outlined all the trouble spot on my tailgate, cut them out and traced them on donorgate. Tracing them gives me the opportunity to fit them perfectly with a bench grinder. I recently got a new Eastwood 175 mig welder and i eager to see how good it was.
I know it's not perfect, but we FSJ guys can't order our parts from a catalog like LMC.