bkenobi wrote:
The slit in the back window would work just fine if you could make sure the center rear view mirror was exactly in line. If that's the case, it will create a vertical reference plane. If you had a point on the leading edge of the cab over, that would also be a low tech version of the laser method. I like that approach cause it can't run out of batteries.
I measured my rear view mirror and it's dead nutz in the center of the windahield so everything is in line. I use the 'day/night' switch on the mirror as a center reference.
I may add a red line on the front of the cab over too. Never thought about that. Backing in with the crew cab, I can see the nose of the camper for quite some time before it vanishes..
First time I backed under the Palomino I used the window in the camper and almost hit the camper until I realized the window is offset about 8" to the passengers side of the camper.....ooops.
Always worked with the Lance. That window was centered.
You can be straight and be crooked at the same time and not much steering wheel movement swings the tail end of the truck box quite a lot.
I don't want to push on mine or rub it getting under it. I have to lift it about as high as the jacks will go to clear my bed and it's, shall we say, wobbly. Always a tense situation. I want to get under it and down asap.
