Driving Truck & Hardside Camper

If you are not planning to do much off roading a dually is the only way to go:

Welcome, potentially, to Club TC. If you see a lot of sway with hard sides, you've been following the wrong campers. Hundreds on this very forum have solved the sway business with its few foibles. The best advice I can offer is for you to pore over the many posts regarding this issue, even going into the archives inputting key words like off-road, sway, hard side, anti-sway bar, suspension, super springs, adding leaves, rear springs, shocks, lift, lean, and the like. You will certainly get a snootful, especially if you go back for years in the archives. Also, words like, air bags, helper coils will certainly bring a mixed result.
regards, as always, jefe
Sway? I doan feel no stinking sway!

Fargo,
The last time I saw a duallies-all-around, 4WD was with a Samarai in the same config as yours on the Rubicon. The owner had painted a phrase on each side, a name actually: "Crustacean". It actually did look like something oozing and creeping along from the Burgess Shale!
I hope your Fargo has a Dana 70 front end (or AAM equivalent) with big, wide spaced bearings, and 35 spline outers. With the duals on the front you need another pair of 'hips' for the front fenders.
jefe

Sam, after examining your previous posts it looks like you have come from inquiring about a bumper pull, to a pop-up, and now a single post about hard sides. The thing is, you've been on RV.net for 13 years. It looks like you are ready to make some kind of decision regarding your
RV future. Good luck to you.
jefe

jefe 4x4 wrote:
Fargo,
The last time I saw a duallies-all-around, 4WD was with a Samarai in the same config as yours on the Rubicon. The owner had painted a phrase on each side, a name actually: "Crustacean". It actually did look like something oozing and creeping along from the Burgess Shale!
I hope your Fargo has a Dana 70 front end (or AAM equivalent) with big, wide spaced bearings, and 35 spline outers. With the duals on the front you need another pair of 'hips' for the front fenders.
jefe

:B - hi jefe that's not my Fargo - it's the Mega Dooley sumthin sumthin from a bygone SEMA show -

- my Fargo is actually a singly... with rear full air suspension/hydraulic shocks and 19.5's which also fixes the TC waddle... :E

When I had my 2006 Northstar Arrow, I installed Timbren's and that really got rid of any sway.

Jefe4x4
Been doing a lot of moteling and tent camping on my fishing and hiking trips. Time for a change. Either pop up or hard side.

I to do a lot of mountain driving and never had a problem with my Lance 815 and 2004 Dodge 3500 with single rear wheels. Only thing I added was the stable loads to engage the overload springs sooner. Think the trick is to not be near the capacity of the truck.

On my new 2015 Ram 3500 with single rear wheels, I have noticed more leaning but still not bad. However, I have not added the stable loads to this truck yet.

A rear anti-sway bar, such as hellwig, is also an option and will greatly help too.

One of the reasons we went with a hard side is we have access to 100% of the items 100% of the time. Granted it isn't hard or take very long to pop the top, but because I stop often, it would be a pain to do it. Much prefer the full height without popping.

Before my 5ver I had a very heavy camper on my RAM. Lots of sway. Added some overload leaf springs and a Helwig sway bar. Made for a very stable setup. But, DW wanted her 5ver back. So I lost.

One of the reasons we selected a hardside is that we do a fair amount of stealth or camo camping. See Tioga George's Blog for details. Can't really call it camping, maybe vagabonding or traveling under the radar, as there is nothing outside the truck to indicate any camping. That's the nut: nothing changes shape once you are parked, pull down the shades, and you're in for the night. Truth is we have gotten used to that 240 sq. ft. of living space, know the tight quarters ballet, (also known as the 'belly up, get flatter, pass, and rebound') and were just lucky the day we bought the 165-s that it happen to fit our needs then and well into the future when set up time and effort, and exposure to noise and weather were less desirable.
I'm thinking we could have gotten used to an OUTFITTER! or other high bucks pop-up as time rounds off the edges as you use it, but we're used to what we have and that works for us. YMMV.
IF......I came into a lot of $, I would think mightily toward ordering an XP camper as it has the best of both worlds and a lot of well thought out features. Diesel Appliances? Yep. Aerodynamic? You bet. Just the 'cool' factor is worth something. It has a very slight change of shape, but the shape is so foreign anyway who would know if it has changed shape or not?
I found an 10' Alaskan, hard side pop up, stored inside, in a time warp it looks so unused. The price is right but i have a short bed and this would only work with a long bed with the tailgate down as support for something made in the 1970's. It's pretty heavy. It's still for sale in the Bay Area.
jefe