Cool, thanks Jake.
The issue with the core support was that it's too 'tall' from the body mount to where the fender bolts on. Nothing would align right (fenders, brackets, etc) until he grabbed an old GM support that he had at the shop and tried it, then everything was perfect. Kurt said he's literally used over a dozen of the 'good' core supports from Rick's over the years and has never seen this problem before.
I called Rick's and told them about the issue and asked if we could just swap for another one and see if there was just an issue with this particular one that they had sent me. I was told that wasn't an option until I e-mailed them pictures of the front clip with the GM support installed AND pictures with their support installed. Yeah right, I'm paying X dollars an hour for work at Autokraft and like I'm going to waste Kurt's time by having him go to all that work for a $300 part. It would just be cheaper to just find a good used GM core support and be done with it.
It's not the end of the world, it's not an exotic part by any means, and isn't an expensive part, it's just the hoops that Rick's/Ecklers wanted us to jump through is ridiculous in my opinion. I've always used Rick's in the past and was MORE than happy with them. I guess it might have something to do with Ecklers.
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