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Jonnygsx
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Mar 11, 2018

Can you put a short bed camper in a long bed pickup?

Still doing the mental figuring on a possible truck camper combo. One thing is I would like access to the rear hitch of the truck to have a dirtbike carrier on the back. Likewise it would be ideal to ...
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Jonnygsx
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Mar 12, 2018
ticki2 wrote:
In the sticky Truck camper university , on the second page , scroll down to TOWING/HITCH EXTENSIONS . THERE are several good threads explaining weight distribution with hitch weight and it's effect on axles , including simple ways to calculate .


Cool thanks, so like I said, not 300lbs

170" wheelbase length
60" hitch to axle distance
500 lb tongue weight

60 / 170 x 500 = 176

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