Using truck camper once unloaded
This our first truck camper a '08 990 Arctic Fox. We are volunteering at a State Park for the summer, and love it. I would like to be able to use the truck for trips to town or what ever. My question ...
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Buzzcut1 wrote:serpa4 wrote:
"Lance specifically states in the owner guide not to store the camper on jacks."
And I'll never own a lance then. Imagine a failure and the mfg saying, sorry you stored it without supporting the bottom.
That is silly.
He is saying Lance recommends that you only use the OEM Atwood jack and its frame mounted location . They say don't use other jack supports on the camper bottom.
Thanks for the clarification Buzzcut1. I still don't understand the logic behind Lance's thinking if done correctly though. I do understand not to use a stand as a single point for the load but spread across the frame of the bottom shouldn't it work the same as any other camper?
Is there something different about the support structure on the bottom of a Lance camper? Surely if it can sit in the back of a camper it can sit on some cross members and jack-stands as a means of motion reduction? As I stated above a lot of motion stress is put on the jacks and mounting corners from all the wobble. Guess I might steer clear of Lance's in the future as well if I can't support it like my other campers.
I know AF sits on 1" thick plywood basement walls, yes even the 2010 AF 1150 aluminum framed silver fox has wood frame basement walls. The aluminum superstructure ends at the top of the white insulation (just under the interior floor) in the next picture. There are 2 vertical aluminum studs at the front right and left basement corners but they don't even connect to each other at the bottom.
This is a 2010 basement, I have no idea if AF continued this design into current production models.
Yep all wood except for these aluminum cross braces screwed to the wood walls that held up the tanks and basement storage tray.
I was surprised the aluminum superstructure of my silverfox didn't extend to the basement but it did a fine job supporting the 5000+ camper in the truck with 3.5' of camper hanging/leveraging unsupported off the back of the truck going down some rough roads. It also did fine sitting on jack stands for stabilization.
Just out of curiosity does anyone know how Lance's are made differently that they can't handle a jack stand?
