Newbie questions
First off, I am a long time camper, but this is our first truck camper. If not for the owner raising this issue, I wouldn't be asking. Well, this is the son of the very elderly owner. He said not t...
Forum Discussion
JimK-NY wrote:
I would not store my camper for long periods of time solely supported by the jacks. Shaking from the wind is going to be hard on the jacks and supports. I put a stack of pallets under the camper to take up much of the weight. When off the truck the front of the camper should be even or higher than the back. If that is the case a pile of people could be in the overhang and the camper will still be stable.
Like Kayteg explained, some Lances had/have issues. There are enough campers out there to not buy one that has known issues.
But in general it is not an issue to store just on the jacks. At least not AF campers.
Our old AF sat on jacks only for many years and we used it, off the truck, on jacks many times.
No issue other than 17 years old, it finally cracked a fw tank support brace. Took a couple hours to fix it how it should have been built to start with.
