Exhaust Gasket Fitment Issues

Reposting onto the 1st gen Tacoma chat; I searched the forum to make sure nobody else has a problem similar to this, but I could have missed something....
Can anybody tell me if the gap here between the flange is normal in my exhaust line?
Got the felpro 60495 gasket on Rock Auto for my 2004 3.4l Toyota Tacoma and want to make sure Rock Auto didn't have the wrong part as a prefit. I'm definitely thinking this is erosion or a bent flange that's preventing the gasket from getting squeezed, but just want to make sure....anybody else experience this problem?

 

Nope that's not good. You need to get new flanges put on that, my advice would be ditching the flange altogether and just get a good quality stainless vband and having an exhaust shop put the vband on there for you, never need a gasket again and its you can still pull the exhaust apart like its supposed to.

 

Thanks! I figured this was a no-go, just wanted to check and make sure.