What have you done with your tailgate?
I've been fulltiming in my Bigfoot for almost a year now and I'm still undecided on what to do with my tailgate for my Ford. It's currently sitting in my moms garage in New York. I'm out West with no ...
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RamblinAnne wrote:adamis wrote:
Unless memory serves me poorly (truck and camper are in storage) on my Bigfoot, the tail gate could probably stay on as the bottom of the camper is flat save for the exhaust pipe for the genset. The exhaust pipe could be a bit of a problem but I can think of a couple of ideas to solve that. With newer LiPo batteries coming on the market combined with solar I think gensets are going to be on their way out soon anyway.
Ooh! Curious if other bigfoot owners have ever tried this! I sold my genny and installed solar so I don't have that exhaust pipe to worry about. I just assumed the weight on the tailgate would destroy it. Hmm.. this would be so ideal if I could keep it on there.
No reason for the tailgate to actually carry much if any weight at all. I have to lift my camper about 3" to clear the cab anyway so I would probably just add a bit of padding between the bottom of the camper and the tailgate but make it not quite the full 3" to ensure there wasn't much stress on either tailgate or camper.
As far as rock chips are concerned, getting a good final wrap should take care of that problem as much as I would be concerned about it. I think the biggest concern would be the impact if we were towing something.
