where to buy brackets for cabover struts

sleepy wrote:

camperpaul wrote:
Why do you want to use those struts?

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Here is why you shouldn't:

When you are on the road the truck frame flexes and twists.

When a TC is on the truck, you can see this twisting because the cabover is moving relative to the cab.

It you restrain the cabover with those struts, the stresses can damage the TC frame.

You cannot stop the flexing of the truck frame by using the struts.

Paul,

It is obvious that you don't have a Lance (or maybe have never had a truck camper.)

What is called a Lance Strut is actually a "DAMPER" (or a shock absorber without a spring)... it is an oil filled cylinder with a piston.

The truck camper is free to move in any direction that he would normally move with the "strut" in place....

The "Strut" just slows down the motion and the "fly back"

A gust of wind from the side isn't noticed... as when a bus or large truck passes by

And... It also retards porporsing when the roads create that phenomana.... to the point that it just doesn't happen (and porporsing is unpleasent)

They are well worth the money...

I have had them for 10 years... and have allowed others to drive my T/TC with them on and with them off. Everyone that has tried them while driving my truck has liked them.

I have owned two TCs, neither of which were Lances.

The first was a 10.5 ft. "Pathfinder" and the second was home built. Both had 5 ft over the cab beds.

The Pathfinder met its demise when a friend decided to use the loading jacks to level the rig thus tearing the anchor points out of the camper; we had to use cargo straps to get the camper back home.

The 12 ft home built was constructed using heavier lumber for the frame and various items I could salvage from the Pathfinder.

In the ~20 years I owned TCs, I have never experienced porpoising, only the normal frame twisting when on marginal roads with the 3/4 ton Chevy crew cab PU truck.