If the truck looks lopsided, that's because it was. Here it is after drilling and removing the tape: Fortunately I was close enough that I only had to slightly coax the third bolt on each side in, but all that took was using my ratchet to thread it in. Never start with a bit that large unless you don't care at all about alignment, because you're holes WILL wander and quite a bit at that. I did this in four steps, first using a 1/8" bit to get the hole started in the right place, then stepped up using slightly larger bits until I got to the final 1/2" bit to finish off the holes. Once that was all done then it was time to drill the holes. I had to redo the first attempt after changing the battery in my digital calipers because a couple of the measurements were off just enough to cause the three bolt holes to not align with each other correctly. I did one side first and verified it was all good and then simply replicated the measurements to the other side. I test fit it all again to make sure everything lined up the way I wanted it to and that I had in fact measured right.
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