westfi1 said:
I am a new member and this is my first post. I have a 2004 Dodge 1500 pick-up that I would like to find a used slide in truck camper for. It is half ton with a crew cab and a 6.5 foot bed. It is a 4x4 with the hemi engine. It has the towing package with heavy duty everything-springs, shocks, axles, cooling system, battery, etc. It has a removable tailgate, stabilizer bar, and transmission fluid cooler. The GVWR is 6650 pounds, and the GAWR front/rear is 3900/3900 pounds.
What I need to know is whether or not I can put a slide in truck camper on it, and if so, how much can it weigh ? Thanks very much in advance for responding.
you should be able to put an 8 foot camper on that truck with no problems at all,I have a ram1500 4x4
with an 8 ft bed, had a 9 1/2 sun lite cab over camper on it . you absolutely need rear anti-sway bars installed.
do it yourself and save some $$$$$.The biggest problem i have found so far is the wind,doing 70 mph
against a 30 mph headwind you will think you have a 4 cyl motor under the hood. also you might want to
tow your own fuel truck behind-lol.After going cross country with the cabover,and fighting headwinds i sold the cabover and got an old non cabover,very scarce, now days. But a lot better in the wind.
beware of the new campers,they are wayyyyy overpriced, and terribly heavy.
in 69 i bought a 68 chev,1/2 ton stepside, straight 6, 3 on the column,6 ft bed--put hellwig overloads on it
and a new 68 six pac cabover on it,,that truck and camper went anywhere i wanted to go, even up lombard street in frisco,,,that old six pac weighed less than 1000 lbs cost about 950.00..now?????????too heavy and cost way too much .
just my 2 cents