everyone, i need help with a truck/truck camper questions.

wicked! thanks guys.
so any suggestions on air ride suspensions ?

or there is also those leaf spring attachments where apparently they bolt on the existing leaf springs. but do nothing unless under load..haha not sure if anyones heard of these or not.

This is how mine sat before adding air to the bags. It didn't look like it needed any.

steeds wrote:
this is from an rv place near my city. the guy told me another f150 customer bought this camper.
he has airbags on 30psi, then lowered 20 psi he said because it was too high. so I'm assuming air bags yes would be needed.. but maybe not as much as i suspected.
and i believe this was the 770r model ? mine if i get it ( 625 model) it should be lighter then this.

I like it!! Thanks to Ford"s 6'9" box you can close the tailgate on a 6'6" camper or even a full sized quad. You very well may need air bags. Not so much front to rear but side to side. Most of these campers have all the appliances, water heater, etc down the driver's side. With a lighter truck like the F 150 you may see a slight sag to the driver's side. If you do use bags make sure to plumb them separately so you can adjust the pressure accordingly.

this is from an rv place near my city. the guy told me another f150 customer bought this camper.
he has airbags on 30psi, then lowered 20 psi he said because it was too high. so I'm assuming air bags yes would be needed.. but maybe not as much as i suspected.
and i believe this was the 770r model ? mine if i get it ( 625 model) it should be lighter then this.

~DJ~ wrote:

mkirsch wrote:
I wish there was a "This is your F150. This is your F150 with a 1600lb truck camper. Any questions?" video on Youtube.

If someone could loan me a mid 2000's F150 regular cab long bed truck for a couple hours and wouldn't mind me putting the weight of my camper on it for a few minutes, I would be happy to make one.

Just to show people what a 1600lb camper does to a stock F150, so they can make their decision from there.

Here is my 2010 bone stock F150 with an 1800# ready to go camping camper. It was also an 8' camper in a 6' bed pulling an enclosed trailer with snowmobile. My present camper is 2300# so I moved up to a 250.

hey that looks good. the travel lite 625 apparently is 12XX lbs. so thats not bad at all. I'm pretty excited. i'll post a photo in a few minutes of a truck also that bought the camper from them, and it fits perfectly in the back with the tail gate up! yahoo!!!

uh ohhhh. haha the new truck.

CptnBG wrote:
Here's one from a Truck Camper Magazine article.



http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/news/lance-announces-rental-partnership-cruise-america/

They must be tough to rent them. ;)

mkirsch wrote:
I wish there was a "This is your F150. This is your F150 with a 1600lb truck camper. Any questions?" video on Youtube.

If someone could loan me a mid 2000's F150 regular cab long bed truck for a couple hours and wouldn't mind me putting the weight of my camper on it for a few minutes, I would be happy to make one.

Just to show people what a 1600lb camper does to a stock F150, so they can make their decision from there.

Here is my 2010 bone stock F150 with an 1800# ready to go camping camper. It was also an 8' camper in a 6' bed pulling an enclosed trailer with snowmobile. My present camper is 2300# so I moved up to a 250.

Just to throw out something here. In 2011 I bought a new Ford F350 LB CC King Ranch with a 6.2 V8. Short of having a diesel it was about the heaviest F350 that you can get. In 2013 I put a 3000# Northern Lite camper on it and my wife and I along with our 40# dog went to Alaska in the rig. Now loaded this camper was right at 4000#. I towed our 17' boat for the first 2000 miles to Montana. The total trip was over 11,000+ miles and when we returned we figured out the mileage for the entire trip and it came in at 10.2MPG average.

So as you can see I was carrying a lot more than you are looking at and it still got as good of mileage as the one post on the EB3.5 F150. My truck GVWR was 11,200#

On one tank of gas one time I got over 16 MPG empty. It has 4.30 rear axle ratio.

This is just to show you don't have to get the lightest pickup to try and get some good MPG especially when you are also looking at hauling a load sometimes

The only thing I did to the F350 was add Stable loads to it. After we got back from Alaska I did add 19.5 tires just because I was getting right at the limit on the stock tires.

Here's one from a Truck Camper Magazine article.



http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/news/lance-announces-rental-partnership-cruise-america/