Put the awning on today, just finished up.
First I had to remove the aft bracket, not something easy to do with the tent on already.
Toyota had the aft bracket back one set of bars to far, and this was interfering with the mount being able to come out all the way and clear the side of the fiberglass shell on the tent and match up with the other two awning brackets.
Thought I was going to have to loosen the mount for the tent and jack it up some, but I was able to twist the bracket mount sideways and pop both of them out once I removed the lower part of the brackets.
Once out, I moved them forward one position.
Now the vertical upright on the mount clears the tent much better.
I did not get the awning positioned though as well as I would have liked.
I wanted it centered with the tent, but once the awning track bolts are through the awning brackets, they do not slide at all in the two tracks on the rear of the awning.
To much pressure, even with the bolts loose.
I will live with it for now, and maybe if I have someone to help me in the future, I can get it centered.
I did this by myself, and it is royal PITA to jockey the awning in your arms/hands and get all six bolts through the awning brackets.
Also you can see in the first picture how the tech at Toyota had to cut down the tents clasp so it would clear the horizontal bar there that it was hitting before as seen in a picture in this thread at the beginning.
That spooge you see between the stainless trim and the fiberglass shell of the tent is from the old growth fir tree I park under.
It will come off with brush and soap once I start hand washing the rig before to long.
Now all the hard part is out of the way.
Just need to better organize my gear later with new boxes and get ready for camping season 2010!
