Another success! Did the passenger side first, taking my time but nothing seemed to go right. I ended up in my driveway for almost 8 hours. Decided to do the drivers side today, the stars aligned and everything went smoothly, first time lining up and no catches...I'm stoked! Had enough daylight to get the tailgate antenna in, and of course I got ****y, rushed and did a horrible job routing the wire, so I decided to fix it. I busted the solder on the pins so I have a little rework to.
Now, and I'm really embarrassed, I can't get my fat sausage fingers in far enough to disconnect the SGW cable (unless I just can't feel the latch). Not sure if anyone else has felt my pain on this.
Thanks to all for the write up and lessons learned!