Help....advice on purchasing truck camper
Hi everybody, Looking for some advice. We just sold our 33 LCDTS Silverback fifth wheel and are downsizing to a camper. We have a 2010 heavy duty 2500 diesel with Firestone air bags. We have taken a ...
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Grit dog wrote:
"CoG: Your camper should have a marker on it showing the CoG of the camper. You certainly want to get that marker in front of the rear axle. Weight behind (rear) of the center axle put your truck out of balance and results in lighting the front load. This can make steering a bit iffy."
If you hadn't just posted a pic of your truck/camper in another thread showing the CoG sticker behind the center of rear axle, this advice may be more valid to those who don't understand.
Not that anything is wrong with your setup and not that taking a few lbs or a few hundred lbs off the front axle of a HD truck hurts anything, just that folks may think that statement is an absolute.
Grit, glad you brought it up and I knew that when I posted the pic.
That said: Here is a pic of the FRONT of the truck. You might note the front bumper and combo Winch and onboard air setup. All total I have about 500 lbs hung out on the front end. So I set it back just a bit. As long as you are in +/- 4 " of the centerline and you are travel loaded you are going to be good to go.
In addition, the centerline sticker on the AF 1150 does not take into account the forward storage on either side of the bed, which is a LOT.
Your keen observation is well taken.
