What would you do?
Well, I have a dilemma on my hands. After buying a 2017 XD Titan last year only to find out I severely underestimated my research as to actual payload capacity of the truck. I decided I’d do even more...
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Optimistic Paranoid wrote:
The problem with putting a short bed camper on a long bed truck is that you might be shifting the camper's center of gravity back too far. The camper's center of gravity MUST be forward of - or at worst, directly above - the truck's rear axle.
If it falls BEHIND the rear axle, the rear axle acts like the center of one of those playground teeter-totters and actually takes weight OFF the front axle, which can cause steering and handling safety issues.
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Fortunately, the COG is dead center over the axle with no water on board, and actually foward of center when full of water, so the the steer axle actually stays the same with no water, or when full of water it get heavier.
Actually my statement is incorrect, I lose 400 lbs off the front axle with no water and then when full of water COG is directly over center of rear axle as the steer axle weight is the same when with camper off truck and when camper is fully wet.