Avid Fox wrote:
Bert the Welder wrote:
And I'm definitely gonna lay my 8' straight edge in the back when I get the new truck cause I gotsta know.... :D
I used the 8' 3/4 ply to check the level straightness, and it was crowned by about half an inch or a bit more. It's a smooth crown, not a buckling, but most evident just in front of the factory inbed 5th hitch pin mounts. It is unclear if the 2016 beds are this way from factory, or if this is damage.
The pivot point for any camper is going to be the CG point of the camper, which is just aft of the rear axle on most campers.
Mine is definitely rocking and cracking the back corners. However,
if the hj bed frame tiedowns and resulting bed flex were the specific problem from their design, I'd see at least some buckling at the bed's front also, but there isn't any.
I'm thinking that for the last 5 years, maybe I didn't have the front turn buckles torqued down quite enough to meet the mfr spec'd 300#. Which would limit rocking F-B. Although I thought I did... Maybe not enough every time. I'll make sure they're right going forward.
That's the plan for now...
Yep. Agree with the CG being where it would pivot, but that would be in free air. I was meaning which end of the TC base it would be more likely to pivot on, in the case of being on a flat surface. Though in your case with the crown being the high point, it's going to teeter-totter on that.
Irregardless, a crappy situation and hopefully they'll be a good fix for long term that isn't too painful.
