Truck camper and towing
Good morning, I have a 2012 ram 3500 mega cab srw. I am looking at either a northern lite 8.11 or an arctic fox 865 both units 2023. I’m looking for advice on tow setups. Manufacturers don’t seem to...
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^If it’s a v nose boat or v nose trailer. OP didn’t say.
I could get by 18” of hitch extension with a v nose but not with a pickle fork nose boat, or I couldn’t get the trailer 90deg from the camper without hitting.
And yes the tongue being under the camper a bit was fine, no vertical clearance issues. Just turning.
To Bedlams point though, the sled trailer (v nose but short tongue length and fixed jack) wouldn’t work even with a 24” extension. His old truck having an ~5” longer truck bed than a short bed Dodge and the extra extension would have been equivalent to ~32” extension on the dodge, same camper length and style.
Although I may just be making this all up according to jimh, lol.
On another note, not sure why it’s so hard for someone like him, who has arguably read most of my posts for like 10 years now, to believe.
Regarding being “overloaded”, he is 100% correct. Technically by the sticker and anything less than 4000 lb rated tires, he is overloaded. In a rv.net type of way. Real world, that truck is fine for what he’s doing. Not ideal, but fine.
And again, even though I could be reciting an elaborate ruse, the combo handled better with the boats or other trailers with respect to body roll (short srw truck) and appears to get the same or nearly the same fuel mileage with or without the trailer. 10’ tall boat drafting a 12’ tall camper basically negated the towing penalty.
I could get by 18” of hitch extension with a v nose but not with a pickle fork nose boat, or I couldn’t get the trailer 90deg from the camper without hitting.
And yes the tongue being under the camper a bit was fine, no vertical clearance issues. Just turning.
To Bedlams point though, the sled trailer (v nose but short tongue length and fixed jack) wouldn’t work even with a 24” extension. His old truck having an ~5” longer truck bed than a short bed Dodge and the extra extension would have been equivalent to ~32” extension on the dodge, same camper length and style.
Although I may just be making this all up according to jimh, lol.
On another note, not sure why it’s so hard for someone like him, who has arguably read most of my posts for like 10 years now, to believe.
Regarding being “overloaded”, he is 100% correct. Technically by the sticker and anything less than 4000 lb rated tires, he is overloaded. In a rv.net type of way. Real world, that truck is fine for what he’s doing. Not ideal, but fine.
And again, even though I could be reciting an elaborate ruse, the combo handled better with the boats or other trailers with respect to body roll (short srw truck) and appears to get the same or nearly the same fuel mileage with or without the trailer. 10’ tall boat drafting a 12’ tall camper basically negated the towing penalty.
