Have had an issue with the tail gate on my 89 Blazer.
Most of the screws that hold the inner panel on were missing.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO I decide to glue the weather strip back on real good, replace the rubber seal inside the inside cover and install new stainless screws.
Haaaaaaaaaa all runs along real well until I go to run the window back up.
BZZZZZZZZ Clunk and the window stops just as it starts to enter the track in the fiberglass top.
I rip the thing apart far deeper than I had planned and discover that the window lower metal mounting hits on part of the X lift when it gets up part way.
Screwing the inner cover all the way down is tweeking the gate just enough that things will not work.
OK this all said, the rig has had a swing out spare tire carrier and the gate has a crack where the top bolt on the bracket was bolted, plus the gate is dented slightly just under the chrome unit where ya stick the key in.
The iner panel has been tweeked slightly and looks as though someone had a tread plate panel scrtewed to it also. (gone now but holes left behind)
OK I got the sucker tweeked enough that I can get the inner panel back on and the window up but its still a tad flakey and ya got to fool with it.
The gate is not worth messing with, with the crack and such.
Are the tail gates from similar years of Burbs interchangeable or is the Blazer all by itself ???
Got an ad on craigs looking for a good gate.
These little critters dont like being tweeked.
If I have to,I will try and rebuild this one but until the weather gets into predictably dry for at least a few days, I dont want to rip into the thing again and maybe not be able to get it back up
Robyn