I figured out that I couldn't easily get my hands into the canopy deck to put nuts on the screws that hold the rear strut mount in place so I made nut plates to put inside it. Made them for both sides and mounted the strut plates. Fabbed some angle to make a stop forward of the subpanel to keep the struts from pushing the canopy to far forward. I elected to use carriage bolts on these. I've seen others use hex head bolts but I think the radius on the carriage bolt might be better.
