Min overall height for soft side
Still working on The Admiral for a truck camper. One of her main objections is that our POA restrictions do not allow parking RV outside overnight. It would have to be dropped off at a storage yard ev...
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Our Outfitter Caribou 8 pop-up is 8 foot 2 inches tall (nothing on roof but 2 roof vents) sittin' on the following:
2004 Silverado 2500HD long bed, 4x4, with original OEM sized tires: 245 75 R16. Truck has no lift. We have a 1/2 inch thick rubber truck bed protector.
We now have tires that are about 2 inches taller, so we would now be 8 foot 4 inches + the beefed-up 1/2 inch thick tub floor I installed last summer = 8 foot 4.5 inches. Absolutely no way to get truck loaded on camper into our 8 foot opening garage (unless you let out almost all the air from tires to ride 1 inch from rims-- not something I would EVER do potentially jeapordizing my $340+ tax @ tires).
An F250/F350 I believe is taller. Dodge? Unknown height bed to ground.
I think Outfitter makes a much less tall camper with full-sized shell and tub, and a roof and cabover profile that looks like a 4 Wheel camper (perhaps 4~5 iches less tall than a traditional Caribou). But all this does nothing for you, because you still have a 7 foot tall garage.
Good luck,
S-
2004 Silverado 2500HD long bed, 4x4, with original OEM sized tires: 245 75 R16. Truck has no lift. We have a 1/2 inch thick rubber truck bed protector.
We now have tires that are about 2 inches taller, so we would now be 8 foot 4 inches + the beefed-up 1/2 inch thick tub floor I installed last summer = 8 foot 4.5 inches. Absolutely no way to get truck loaded on camper into our 8 foot opening garage (unless you let out almost all the air from tires to ride 1 inch from rims-- not something I would EVER do potentially jeapordizing my $340+ tax @ tires).
An F250/F350 I believe is taller. Dodge? Unknown height bed to ground.
I think Outfitter makes a much less tall camper with full-sized shell and tub, and a roof and cabover profile that looks like a 4 Wheel camper (perhaps 4~5 iches less tall than a traditional Caribou). But all this does nothing for you, because you still have a 7 foot tall garage.
Good luck,
S-
