Tore Out Mounting Tiedown on Camper
#21
Posted 31 May 2011 - 01:11 AM
Plate being used, 4.5"x12"
Bonding glue
Top place and grade 8 bolt
Bottom plate with eye loop
Well, hopefully that will take care of things for good. Camper is back on, centered up and turnbuckles set per FWC specs. Guess we'll see.
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#22
Posted 31 May 2011 - 01:56 AM
Well, I got my materials together for a day to pull the camper and fix the mounts. Overall went well outside of limited access on the driver rear spot. FWC manage to mount the power converter over top the bolt. I ended up drilling a new mounting location 2.5" back from the original one. Works fine. I used 1/4" plate aluminum and grade 8 bolts. I also used some Loctite bonding glue to help put the torn out wood back in place and to bond the plates to the wood. Couldn't hurt. Well here's the pics.
Plate being used, 4.5"x12"
Bonding glue
Top place and grade 8 bolt
Bottom plate with eye loop
Well, hopefully that will take care of things for good. Camper is back on, centered up and turnbuckles set per FWC specs. Guess we'll see.
02 Eagle - 07 Tacoma TRD
#23
Posted 26 May 2012 - 12:05 AM
#24
Posted 28 May 2012 - 12:39 PM
No experience with the turnbuckles but I do have 20 some years of trouble free experience with the bolt through the floor system. This was how the factory used to do it and mine was a new factory install: 4 bolts through the floor back in 1983.
A lot of gravel, wash board, and four wheeling and never an issue. After reading several of these threads I think I'll stick with the old system on my new rig.
Hello. Have a 2011 Eagle on a 2001 Tacoma, I'm interested in your idea of bolting camper down through the floor. What are the best hole placements, did you use plates, what # strength bolt did you use? That also would free up the space in the wheel area for a greywater tank or other such retro-fit.
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#25
Posted 28 May 2012 - 07:12 PM
No experience with the turnbuckles but I do have 20 some years of trouble free experience with the bolt through the floor system. This was how the factory used to do it and mine was a new factory install: 4 bolts through the floor back in 1983.
A lot of gravel, wash board, and four wheeling and never an issue. After reading several of these threads I think I'll stick with the old system on my new rig.
Hello. Have a 2011 Eagle on a 2001 Tacoma, I'm interested in your idea of bolting camper down through the floor. What are the best hole placements, did you use plates, what # strength bolt did you use? That also would free up the space in the wheel area for a greywater tank or other such retro-fit.
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#26
Posted 28 May 2012 - 08:30 PM
This has held up very well.
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Just looking through this thread and found something I can try. Rancher thanks for the idea. I'll pick up some black foam pipe insulator and attach it to the underside of the camper at the bed rails. Since I have a ACT Bobcat on a 1st gen Tundra,the camper doesn't stick out but an inch or so past the truck bed. This idea will seal that area nicely. When it's completed I'll post pics.
Thanks for the idea.Frank
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#27
Posted 29 May 2012 - 12:41 AM
Hello. Have a 2011 Eagle on a 2001 Tacoma, I'm interested in your idea of bolting camper down through the floor. What are the best hole placements, did you use plates, what # strength bolt did you use? That also would free up the space in the wheel area for a greywater tank or other such retro-fit.
Hi Buckland,
My old camper was a factory install that used four elevator bolts through the floor at the four corners. Underneath was simply a fender washer, lock washer and a nut. For specifics you could contact FWC as I believe they still sometimes mount campers that way.
On my new Hawk I went with the turnbuckles......time will tell I guess.
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#28
Posted 30 May 2012 - 10:32 PM
http://www.mountaing..._/R-615070P.htm
Jon
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#29
Posted 10 December 2012 - 12:50 PM
Tom
Hello. Have a 2011 Eagle on a 2001 Tacoma, I'm interested in your idea of bolting camper down through the floor. What are the best hole placements, did you use plates, what # strength bolt did you use? That also would free up the space in the wheel area for a greywater tank or other such retro-fit.
#30
Posted 10 December 2012 - 02:59 PM
For holding light stuff down in a p'up bed it's probably OK. I wouldn't suggest using them to hold down a camper as they will always apply a compound bending moment. A forged eye-bolt need only be aligned properly to any angled pull to reduce it's applied bending moment to be very small. I used some of these in the galvanized 1/2" size. They have 4" square, 1/8" thick load spreading plates under the bed, then a heavy flat washer and a nylock nut. Wanting no sharp edges or corners to act like a can opener against the bottom of the bed I also rounded the corners and radiused the top edges of the plates.
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