How does a truck camper fit into a truck bed?
Sorry for the ignorance. How does a truck camper 'work?' Say a TC's length is 6.5' and a truck bed is 5.5'. Obviously, the tailgate cannot be up. Do you remove the tailgate or just lay it down? If you...
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trail-explorer wrote:
Remove tailgate so it will not get damaged by flying debris, or from the truck camper. Tailgates are not very good "weight bearing" devioces like trucks from the 70s. Thinner sheetmetal, means lighter which, which translates to "flimsy".
I'd disagree on both counts.
I've hauled my HEAVY AF 860 camper both ways on my 07 Dodge. First trip was 2400 mi up the Alcan hwy from Seattle to Anchorage. Left tailgate on cause I needed it when I got (moved) to AK. Combined with thousands of miles, many gravel roads and no rock chips and I'm pretty sure the tailgate was taking some real weight as the camper dented the inside of it a little.
By the same token I've put a lot of weight on most every model of Fprd and Ram and a couple GMs in the last 15-20 years. Construction loads like half a pallet of grout and the only tailgate that's been damaged was a re pop tailgate and it folded like a beer can when I jumped down onto it with about 50 lbs of tool bags and a sack of cement on my shoulder.
