What does short and long bed camper mean?
Does that mean it does not slide all the way into a long bed truck or it hangs farther off the back of a short box truck? Example "The 2014 Wolf Creek 840 is a hard side, non-slide, wet bath truck ca...
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deltabravo wrote:Super_Dave wrote:
A short bed camper does hang farther off the back of a long bed truck due to the storage cabinets typically found on a short bed model.
A shortbed camper shouldn't be put on a long bed truck because the center of gravity will most likely be behind the rear axle.
It would look goofy as heck too, siting so far back on the truck.
Isn't the added bed length between the axle and the trucks cab ?
The SB camper should sit in the same place in a LB. The COG remains in the same place, in front of the axle.
If you google pics of SB campers on LB trucks, you can see where it sits. The open space that is now between the cab and the camper can be used for storage or build a custom box .
here is previous info on SB/LB
http://forums.woodalls.com/Index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/27471882/gotomsg/27475612.cfm
