I would consider that a critical, and consequently single use fastener.
If I were having my box changed (which I at this point have no intention of doing) and they planned to reuse the nut, I'd pay for a new one.
Ambitious, Good luck.
I can tell you that the frame flex is enough to let my ARE shell kiss the cab with about an inch of normal gap.
I would say that significant frame stiffening will be required if you have any hopes of it being remotely water tight.
Also, and not to rain on your parade...
If you are interested I would encourage you to sign up, Saturday is already full, and I suspect Thursday and Friday are not far behind.
I signed my wife up last night.
My avatar is a front photo, I'll just have to take some more for you, maybe this weekend.
Tire/wheel/lift combination is excellent, mild offroad use is exactly as you would expect and a week worth of snow says the tires are an excellent choice. They have about 25k on them and will do 50k with...
I leave mine in, getting my XXLT self under the dash to uninstall it is not worth it.
Invariably they ask if a tuner is present, and the answer is yes leave it alone.
I'm not concerned with "voiding" the warranty, ymmv
Sure, and I don't disagree.
I'm simply saying that because the OP chose a different path is no reason to tell him to grow some balls. That's all, and I think you should walk that back a little.
The exact same outcome occurred in your scenario (and my own) as did his.
I never have understood why someone would want to force someone to bake them a cake when they don't want to.
I won't disagree that I would have made the GM abundantly aware of my dissatisfaction, but there is also no way on hell Skip and Gomer were going to be working on my shit.
So while I...
LOL, that's crazy.
I think I would have made a trip into the GM's habitat.
And then I would find another dealer because they aren't qualified to clean the ashtray in it.
I'm 6'6" so pretty much every time I drive.
Since I have a shell on the back rendering the rear view mirror useless, if I didn't have the adaptive cruise in the way I'd take the mirror off too.
Don't like it, don't use it, big visual obstruction, wish it wasn't there and waste of money.
Initially I thought it was kind of cool.
Now I kind of think it sucks.
Oh well.
LOL, I didn't know Alexandria Occasional Cortex had an account here.
I like the Dana nodular iron covers.
And it's non-rotational unsprung weight which serves as ballast for my big brain, much technical, very skilled.
Here are some pics of my above windshield mounted KC Gravity Pro 6 light bar not glaring off of my hood, not making any noise, producing a metric shit ton of light, and looking good doing it :
I don't doubt for a moment that using incandescent lights, shitty lights, Most Fire Numbah One...
Doesn't bother me at all, I'm providing my opinion which I qualified as proprietary and unscientific and based entirely in personal experience , I'm sorry I'm not providing the confirmation bias you seek, I'm neither going to argue with you or support your conjecture, have a nice day.