tailgate failure

I recently purchased a 2005 Tundra Limited with Access Cab. The previous owner somehow messed up the tailgate mechanism pretty good. It will not open at all. I tried removing the inside cover and found that the rods were not even there that attach the handle to the side mechanisms. So then I...

Some of you on here may see me as a Toyota Zealist but even with my loyalty towards Toyota I'll throw a BS flag at them as fast as anyone else, so here it is. Well its pretty obvious that the tailgates on these new tundras have some issues. There have been multiple threads of folks loading 4...