mbloof wrote:
Unless the 450 is built much different than the 250/350 you'll have to raise the camper to clear the cab. I used a sheet of 2" 8x4' styrofoam from Lowes. When loading be mindful of the camper centering in the tail gate opening and where your truck tail lights and the camper are - loaded all the way forward might cause them to touch.
- Mark0.
Are you talking about a new Northern Lite EX CD?
They’re designed to fit all new trucks, with just a 3/8” rubber mat.
There’s plenty of room to tow a trailer with a longer tongue and no extension under a Northern Lite. I even towed that way for many thousands of miles with an older camper that had the holding tanks hanging below the rear.
The problems most people describe with this setup are mostly imaginary ones from people who haven’t done it.
As for the difficulty of crawling under to latch the hitch, that’s really easy and compares well against the trouble of installing and removing a four foot extension.
If your trailer is really light, and you don’t mind having extra junk to install every time you load up, extensions work great.
The heavier your trailer is, the worse extensions are.
That’s why people buy goosenecks and 5th wheels: the further forward you can get the hitch point, the better. The further back it is, the worse. Everyone knows it.
