No problem - the instructions say "It can be adjusted quite easily by hooking one end behind something and pulling..... Go Sloooowly. It is easy to do too much.
NOT!
I don't want to meet the guy who build the first one and wrote the instructiions about how easy it was to bend - he must be a monster!
After a failed attempt at bending it by hand, and a second failed attempt at jumping on / hangiing from it (don't ask, wasn't pretty and there was some personal injury) I had to develop the hilbilly bending brake shown below.
It took a pull of more than 2 inches (which was where the rachet strap ran out of steam ) to get the 0.1" of bend that I needed. Now my toolbox has a roll-bar shaped dent in the top of it.
After that, it was another "easy" task to drill the 4 holes and make the 4 spacers. BTW - I wish I'd read ahead when I made the aft canopy decks. Vans doesn't give you any room to access the bottom of the rear bolt.
But, it's done so I'll count this as a mini-milestone. I'm sure the rest of the canopy will be much easier
