[Mountaineer]

As some of you know, my tailgate was fubar. I had it locked and it wouldn't open even if I unlocked it. So today I got after her and popped the cover off and unscrewed everything and gave it a look see. It turns out that a plastic guide, that guides the brass latch into position (unlocked position), was broken. This made the brass latch bump into the hooks on the tailgate handle which stopped the latch from moving any further, and prevented me from opening the tailgate.

I had to screw a small piece of metal on the guide to reinforce it so it wouldn't buckle when the latch moved across it. Now it works like it is supposed to.