Once the anchor was in place, I seated the first steel pole into it to get the distance for the second anchor. Additionally, after the initial seating, I went back and added several alternating pattern deep length deck screws to support the lag bolts and to improve overall stability of the ceiling anchor. Also, the pictures don't show this, but I feel I should mention, each of the lag bolts was seated with a washer so that it would really hold the flange and the 2x4 onto the rafter. The rafters, or the inner arms, should be pushed to the top of the opposing arms. Slide the rafters up the awning arms and lock them.
You can use your hands to pull the strap the rest of the way until the awning is fully extended. Luckily, I had my socket driver, and with a little elbow grease, i got them to seat nicely. Use the rod to pull the strap straight out, opening the awning. I had to muscle the hex lag bolts the last of the way because my adorable little 19V powerdrill did not have the Oomph necessary to finish the job. Word of warning (because I goofed a bit here) my drill bit was a bit short and did not fully drive deeply enough into the rafter. This is not your ordinary home pull-up bar. (I knew I wasn't going to get another shot at it and I didn't want to wreck my ceiling). The joist mounted pull up bar is the best (in every sense of the word) chin-up/pull-up bar on the market. After finding the ceiling rafters with the stud finder, I predrilled the holes into them and made sure that each predrilled hole would line up.
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