2014 3500 Duelly driver fender spreading
I had an ODD experience with my 2014 Ram 3500 duelly 1 Ton truck and my Lance 1172. On a recent trip after unloading the camper, I noticed that a rear panel under end of the truck bed had bent, and w...
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silversand wrote:HMS Beagle wrote:
If I was seeing this problem I would put something more substantial across the bed. A few flat 2x4s would be much stiffer than plywood, better still would be some 2" square or rectangular steel tubes...
....wouldn't that narrow 2 inch steel add really acute load points laterally along the corrugated tin bed (and potentially permanently deflect the corrugation; even right through a rubber bed mat) ?
I'd be careful to locate them on top of the top hat sections or other transverse bed reinforcement where it exists.
I have a 3/4 ply platform cut around the wheel wells, sitting on top of a poly drop in bed liner. On top of that I have a rubber mat (to protect the plywood from the bottom of the camper). The rubber mat has dimples typical of the type. After the camper has been on for several days, there is a nice dot pattern where the pressure is on the plywood. On my camper (Bigfoot 10.4) it is mostly across the front 3 inches, down the sides about 4" wide, flaring out around the wheel wells behind them, with a couple of stripes where Bigfoot has some bulkheads in the basement. And across the tailgate. Very little in the middle anywhere.
