Tie-Downs
I have two questions. 1. I have the tie-downs that drop into the square holes on top of the bed rail (Ram 2nd gen). I have never used these. How strong are they? My camper is 1800lbs dry. I p...
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work2much wrote:
I had the brophy pocket style tie downs on my first camper and quickly moved to a happijac down as I didn't find them very sturdy bending themselves and somewhat mangling the truck. That was over 20 years ago. Maybe they work better now. I switched to happijac bed mounts and didn't like them either as they tore the sheetmetal on our 1994 Ram. I know others here have had better success and I'm sure the product has improved over the years. After the happijac we went with a frame mount that has worked well on the last 3 trucks and 4 campers. I believe you can buy just the fronts if you are doing your own thing on the rear. Some sort of spring is recommended by most camper manufacturers to relieve stress on the camper.
My old 97 F350 lives fine with the front HJ mounts but the rear ones, not too good. I did the Kayteg number without the flat plates. Just a couple forged lift eyes in each end.
One thing I do like about the HJ's is when 2 tracking like I do, the less hanging down and outside the wheels, the more chance of snagging something. I often times remove the camper jacks because of that. I see Mellow Mike found out the hard way about snagging something on a 2 track. Ripped one of his jacks back.
