I finally got the Shadow Awning mounted. It seriously takes like 30 seconds to deploy and MAYBE 60 to put it away. What a nice piece of kit!
I have the rear mount from @AlexaB. It is ROCK SOLID.
Couple of things:
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Cut a lot of cloth out of the way where the bolts go through the cover. I just cut slits through and it was a PITA. To do it again I would cut a nice chunk out around every bolt hole I plan to use. Especially at the rear corner mount. I got mine mostly mounted and realized what a PITA the cloth was - but I was too far into it to take it all down and screw around with everything again.
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You can see in the pix - I only used 4 of the mounting holes on the rear corner bracket. The 2 inside most bolt holes are a pain to reach - and with the aforementioned problem with the cloth - I just left them out. It’s super solid.
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With the GFC brackets, the front one was really difficult to get mounted correctly. I’m pretty sure there is a slight bend in the GFC extrusion. I needed about 1/16" to make it line up. So, I ended up mounting the bracket and then drilling the hole where the bracket and Shadow Awn meet just a little bit to make them match.
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In the pix you will see that I replaced the hex nut bolts with regular bolts. It’s really tight between the awning and the GFC extrusion and takes too much effort to use my cut down allen wrench. It was much easier to fit a regular wrench in there to tighten everything up.
So far I’m really happy with it!
