Metal spacers on bottom of camper
Just to make this short, I have fifth wheel rails in my truck to pull our fifth wheel. And we just got our truck camper for taking on long trips to the mountains, however one of the metal spacers scr...
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Kayteg1 wrote:
x2 on hard to visualize the issue, but metal should be last material for spacers under the camper.
You want material with high friction like rubber mat or wood.
Not really. My 14 Backpack has 3 roll formed metal rails screwed to the bottom running parallel to the bed and 2 running crosswise, one in the front and one in the back
and... unlike the majority of posters on here, I've never run a bed mat in the bed and never had had an issue with the camper sliding around and I run off road in camber and elevation situations constantly. It's metal to Line-X on the bottom and always has been. In fact, my Lance rode on it for years and it never moved either.
My view is, movement has more to do with the angle of the tie down hardware than any bed mat.
I believe he could remove the in the way roll formed rail and be done with it, understanding however, that the off the truck capability of the unit might suffer a bit.
Your mileage my differ, but my mileage is just fine.
