Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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rastaman33609 wrote:
Hoping everyone had a good holiday and best wishes for the coming year.
Hopefully very early next year I will be able to get my C10 loaded on to the truck, finalize my grey water 'tank' plumbing which will be mounted to the under carriage of the truck. Then I will have to make a decision on how to transport my 2 or 3, 2'x 4' "portable ' solar panels.
In an attempt to raise the camper to facilitate sliding the panels in between the camper and the cab, I installed 2 layers of 2"x 6" X 8'
boards, effectively lowering the height of the bottom of the camper.
Now by my measurements, the jacks are not going to be able to raise it high enough for the truck bed. (Dodge 3500).
Which brings to mind the question...
How many travel with their Jacks mounted to the camper?...pros's and cons?
Hope everyone has a great new year...
Yeh Mon!
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If your 2x6's lower the bottom of the camper I'm assuming you attached them to the camper and not the truck . Either way you need more height for the jacks . If you haven't already , take some careful measurements of the jacks fully extended to know exactly how much you need . What is the height of the truck bed unloaded ? If you need 2" or less I think you could use a spacer in the tripod tube . If it is much more you could buy or make the extension pipe the sell for the Rieco jacks . Another option is to make an extension plate for the top of the jack where it bolts to the mounting angle . I had to do this because I needed both Height and width . I get a picture a little later . Since I have an 8'-6" flatbed I have a space in front of the camper and that is where the jacks go when traveling , I like having the option .
