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96 Explorer Rear Gate Adjustment

Acquired a '96 Limited and have made it my daily driver. Pretty happy with it and am now fixing the small stuff. The rear gate sits about 1/2 inch too high on the right side and a little less on the left. the body lines and trim show how much. Makes it difficult to close and it feels like the linkage/locking mechanism is binding when I open it. The Composite bushing on the latch post also broke. My goal is to get it into the correct alignment vs just adjusting the post but I see no adjustment in the hinge. I've dug around here and other sites and all the threads only address adjusting the post. Any help would be appreciated.



 
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