Any thoughts on a repair?
Just purchased my first truck camper a couple of months ago. A 2000 Fleetwood Elkhorn 8S. Being in a hurry and not having a clue what I was doing, the guy slipped by a damaged camper on me. After I le...
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joerg68 wrote:
It will not get better by driving it...
I would not want to drive it as it is, not even to the closest repair facility. Can you get some soft foam board that you can wedge between the cab roof and the camper cabover, so that the cabover weight is distributed evenly? The truck's roof is not made to carry loads, so do at your own risk. Normally, I would advise strongly against doing this, but...
When I moved from the camp on the mountain back to the camp in town, I had actually put some 2x6 blocks in the bed to raise it up two inches. And then I had a 3 inch memory foam mattress that I stuck between the cab and the camper. But the problem with that was, as I was hitting the washboards on the road, I could see the passenger side roof of my truck flexing and it scared me, so I took it out.
I wonder on the highway going home, if I would be better off to leave the memory foam in there? Even though the roof won't bear a lot of weight, maybe it will take a little bit of stress off of whatever is left in the camper that's holding it up? Enough to limp at home maybe?
