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Scars1989
Jun 17, 2014Explorer
Butch50 wrote:no i completely agree with you and that was my fear the it would be to unstable i trying to do to much with one truck is what it looking like
When you are talking off road and 3" body lift and a 6" suspension lift just doesn't go together for a hard sided camper. Then you will probably want to go to bigger tires which raises you even more. With stock tires that big of wheel wells are gong to look really screwy, so that means either 35 or 37" tires. Now you have added another 2.5 to 3.5" in height. Do you realize how high your center of gravity is going to be. With a setup like this you are asking for sway problems going down the road with no cross winds at all. Also when you are going down any kind of trail if there is any slight side slope to it the rig being this high is really going to lean over.
Most of the time when you raise the truck you are getting softer suspension. This is going to compound your sway problems.
You are also gong to have problems with the camper jacks not being able to take the camper off the truck without putting additional blocking under them and when you pull out from under the truck that sucker is going to be way up in the air. You are going to have to make sure you are on level ground and that there is no wind blowing when you want to load or unload the camper.
With any camper especially one with any basement (which most of the 4 season campers have a heated basement) you are going to be pushing 13' tall. My NL on my stock Ram dually is over 12' tall to the top of the AC. Add another 9" or more on top of that and you are at 13' and that is without bigger tires.
Please rethink what you are planning to do.
This is IMO
But bottom line it is up to you.
i wanted a lift like that so when i got where i was going i be able to leave the TC behind go where i want and so on but it is looking like my fear is coming true so ill be rethinking my set-up for sure but thank you for your imput
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