Been kind of half thinking about removing the buttons from my rear bumper entirely and going to a length of square tubing either butt welded to the receiver hitch side plate or in the receiver itself to mount the rear HJ tiedowns.
Reason being is, any pull on the rear HJ's tend to pull the end of the step bumper up on each side. It returns to it's normal position when the camper tiedown is released but it still bothers me. I don't run them that tight as a rule anyway. Most of my 'pull' is on the front set. and mine are angled just like yours... and, I've never had the camper move at all, not side to side or front to back and no rubber mat or wood underneath. Just a Line-X lined bed and the bottom of the camper on it.
Truck looks sharp. I pulled my aluminum rims last year and stripped off the clear coat (which had chipped and looked awful. After I stripped them (with the tires off of course, I buffed them out with rouge and a buffing wheel to a mirror finish. Now, every spring I go over the rims with Mothers Aluminum polish. Was a big job but worth the time. I get a lot of compliments on the wheels. Even bought a spare aluminum rim from E-Bay and did the spare too.
Living up here in Michigan I don't drive the truck in the winter, stays in the garage with the camper. I never have driven it in the winter, since new.
