New Ram dually vs. Torklifts vs. Bigfoot

[TxGearhead]

It has been a frustrating morning. I decided to load the Bigfoot on the new Ram. Not much issue backing under it, went on fairly easy. Maybe an inch both sides between the fenders and the jacks. Set it down and started putting the Fast guns on. The fronts were against the body. No way that would work. Tried the rears, no way, and inflicted the first damage to the truck paint. The Torklift tie downs were all the way out...pins in the inboard holes. Well this ain't ever going to work. Guess I'll cancel my fishing trip. I needed to get the FastGuns further out from truck. Not much of a way to do that to the Torklifts, so I needed a way to extend the Bigfoot tie downs outward. I used a 7/16" machinery eye bolt on each Bigfoot tiedown. It is a no-no in the turbo machinery world to pull sideways on an eye bolt. But the BIgfoot isn't a 20,000# turbine rotor. The eye bolts are forged and have a good shoulder. These aren't WalMart eye bolts to hang a picture. It worked. Gave me about an inch clearance off the truck bed. Just took a 10 mile ride to top off the diesel and all seems well. I'll call Torklift and see if they have any other ideas.
Of course y'all are welcome to opine.......

[TxGearhead]

jimh425 wrote:
Is it possible the TL mounts are are the wrong sides? Pictures would help.

The frame mounts or the extensions? The front frame mounts are new....different from the 2016 SRW. Pretty sure they are right. The rear frame mounts were the same. The extensions....the old ones for the rear have the labels on the ends for "drivers front", etc. The new extensions look exactly the same, but didn't come with labels. I think all that is good. I think the Bigfoot just happens to have hold down eyes that are more inboard than others.

[Faststreak]

Thanks Troutguy

[Troutguy]

Faststreak wrote:
Waiting for my super hitch and tie downs to come in. Will my fastguns clear on my new 2018 Ram dually and host cascade?

They should clear without any problems. I just installed new Torklifts all the way around on
my 18’ RAM Dually last week and my Arctic Fox 811 fits fine and it’s probably the same width as your Cascade. And yes I used a new SuperHitch also.

TG

[Faststreak]

Waiting for my super hitch and tie downs to come in. Will my fastguns clear on my new 2018 Ram dually and host cascade?

[lap527]

Here is an example of what the dealership had to do to get around the hips of our dually. It has worked well for 4 years.

[3_tons]

I have the same Ram but with DRW...Just for reference only, I measured the tie-down points on my Eagle Cap 995 hard-side, and the camper measures 96” in width while the tie-down points are inboard from each side only by about 2-3/4 “ per side...Torklifts and fastguns work without a problem...

3 tons

[work2much]

When I carried a Bigfoot on our old dodge dually I bolted a piece of angle iron horizontally to the camper eyes and extended the new camper eye holes out away from conflicting with touching the paint. Also had to shim the camper off the bed to avoid hitting cab roof to camper.

[jimh406]

Is it possible the TL mounts are are the wrong sides? Pictures would help.