Front Rubber Stoppers

MN Ben wrote:
How are you busting them off? Must be rubbing too much when raising/lowering the camper. Maybe the material that the stops are attached to is shot. I am sure many on here use a small length of 4x4 (or whatever size) between the cab and camper.
I used a block of wood, painted black, to extend my stops. But this may not work for you if you are already bending yours off.

I used a loading dock rubber bumper on each side. They look just like your hybrid of wood and rubber you have pictured here. I had to re-read your post, to make sure it wasnt a loading dock rubber bumper! ;-)

Garry in AK

The problem is likely to occur if the camper is allowed to slip forward at all. The front of the bed box has a lip on it. Before using the wood spacer, the camper would migrate forward a bit and get hung up on the front bed rail lip. But more concerning for me was how much deflection the bumpers were putting in my sheet metal between the cab and the bed.

jefffoxsr wrote:
I just looked at my truck and I'm wondering if any kind of spacer is really needed or not. It doesn't seem like one is needed. I have a plastic bed liner in there.

If I were you the first thing I would do is take the plastic liner out of your truck. It is not recommended to have the camper on a drop in bed liner. They are to slick and well allow the camper to slide around. Use a bed matt or horse stall rubber pads for the camper to rest on.

How are you busting them off? Must be rubbing too much when raising/lowering the camper. Maybe the material that the stops are attached to is shot. I am sure many on here use a small length of 4x4 (or whatever size) between the cab and camper.
I used a block of wood, painted black, to extend my stops. But this may not work for you if you are already bending yours off.

I just looked at my truck and I'm wondering if any kind of spacer is really needed or not. It doesn't seem like one is needed. I have a plastic bed liner in there.

I use a 2 x 4 and a short piece of plywood.

popeyemth wrote:
Most just use whatever thickness/combination of wood necessary to keep the camper from crushing the truck bed header panel.
Good Luck, Mike

X2

Most just use whatever thickness/combination of wood necessary to keep the camper from crushing the truck bed header panel.
Good Luck, Mike