Torqlift Quick Release pins bent

Exlporer wrote:
After my last trip from Grand Rapids back home thru a mess of snow and road crud from semi's passing I noticed by fast guns on opposite corners where tighter than usual. I thought is odd but felt the camper was secure.

Next day I removed the fast guns, and torqlift QP's and inserts. To my surprise two of the quick release pins where bent! :E

The Camper, a wolfcreek 850, had apparently had a pretty good shift at some point in the journey!!! I'm guessing by the time I found the "tight" fast guns the damage was done.

The camper rides on a rubber mat on a Linex sprayed bed. The rubber mat is not that thick, 3/4" maybe and not really that "grippy" in my opinion.

So my questions for ya'll are:

1) Would you make an adjust meant to the fast guns as soon as you find them tighter than usual?

2) Would you raise the camper and reposition immediately?

3) Would you re-use the bent pins? (I do have a couple from an old set.

4) How thick a bed mat are you using. I think I read on here somewhere that some were using a 1" horse stall mat and thought that might help to reduce movement.

Thanks for your time and input as I'm still a newbie in the hard side world and got this rig late fall and am trying hard to everything ready to roll for Spring!!!!

You may want to get a bed mat that grips better. I was using a set of Home Depot rubber anti-fatigue mats for a while but they didn't grip enough (especially when wet) so I recently went with a thicker, somewhat softer bed mat made especially for my truck. The camper now stays put much better when going off-road.

As for the amount of movement by the TC, it depends on how much. A shift of an inch probably isn't enough to worry about, but more than that may require that you reposition it.