So what did you do to your Truck Camper today?

finished cleaning up the camper in preparation for this weekend. Gotta say even though the bed is much thicker I still have tons of head room and after 10 straight days on the road with comfortable good nights sleep with zero back pain in the morning. My recomendation is to toss that crappy thin RV mattress and put in a real one

I bought a 1972 Dolphin truck camper two weeks ago (and no it doesn't leak!) and I'm in the process of taping everything off and re-painting the inside. I also tickered with the Duo-therm heater and got it working yesterday! Ran it on high for two hours and it works great! Surprised by the lack of funny smells and fumes, so I guess I lucked out!

Replaced the incandescent interior bulbs with LED lamps. Picked these up on eBay

link to eBay auction

The seller raised the price since I purchased. I got these for $1.99 ea with free shipping. I see the price is now $2.19, still a heck of a deal. They did sort of trickle in one at a time over the last week or so after a two week wait, but for the price I'm not complaining. Bought a few extra just in case but they've all been good so far. Only caveat is they are polarity dependent, but that's not too hard to figure out. I plan to use a pair to replace the high tail light on the back of the truck cab. I have a boot for the pass through window and on an earlier trip I was stuck in traffic for an extended period and the heat from the brake lights built up under the boot and distorted the plastic lens/housing. Since then I've been unplugging the high brake light before loading the camper, but with these that shouldn't be necessary.

Old incandescent


New LED


The LEDs are a cooler light but plenty bright. Ran a test and the incandescent draws roughly 1.3 amps, the LED's 93 milliamps (.093 amps).

spent over an hour using goo off, a brush, soapy water, and a high pressure hose nozzle to get all the dang bug splats off the nose of the TC

Living on the edge myself.


Untitled by MooringProduct, on Flickr

lazarus62268 wrote:
I traveled 4650 miles and spent $2900 for a Stablelift system. Why? Here's why!

Seemed like common sense to me.

Do you own stock in the Stable Lift company? :h You sure are pushing the pictures of that jack failure on us pretty heavily lately. :B

I do hope it's worth the investment for you though. For me that sure seems like an awful lot of money to spend on limiting where you can now go with your TC, but to each his own. I agree it looks like a good idea and no doubt increases the safety while loading/unloading but if I was going to limit myself to being able to go only where a Class A motorhome could go I wouldn't have bought a TC and then I wouldn't have had to worry about the whole loading/unloading thing anyway. I don't even think I could get out of my RV park without tearing off a Stable Lift system so I'll just hang on to my $2900 in case I bend a jack someday.


. . . . . . .I guess I'll keep living dangerously like Buzzcut1 does. And on soft uneven ground too :E




Because I can't do this with a Stable Lift system.




And to stay true to the topic of this thread I de-cluttered the inside of the camper and took out the trash after a weeks worth of work in anticipation of going camping and exploring for a week starting Wednesday. :D

Swapped out the cracked fresh water tank with a new tank, that was fun:)

Washed it and started applying "BugSlide" after returning from a short trip.

got things ready for 10 days of beach camping!!!!!!!!!

guess I'm livin dangerously :-)