CR: Is your spare tire under the rear of your truck bed? Be sure you can access the crank system with the tailgate down.
Truck Bed Overhang
Started by
Coast Ranger
, Jul 31 2013 03:59 PM
14 replies to this topic
#11
jcfly
-
- Members
- 209 posts
Senior Member
Posted 03 August 2013 - 04:56 PM
Jim
2009 Chevy 2500 HD / 2004 FWC Hawk
#12
ETAV8R
-
- Members
- 906 posts
Senior Member
- LocationRepublik of Kalifornia
Posted 26 August 2013 - 06:53 AM
Food for thought coming from a Tacoma owner. I have a 2009 Access Cab and a Finch shell, slightly built out. I love it. I could probably sleep diagonally on the factory couch if necessary. Being a shorter camper I am able to close my tailgate which is also a step/platform/table when in camp. There is much argument against keeping a tailgate but I love having mine there.
Founder of D.E.R.P. Desert Exploration & Research Project. A camp proper is a nomads biding place. He may occupy it for a season or only for a single night, according as the site and its surroundings please or do not please the wanderers whim- Horace Kephart.
2009 4x4 Tacoma Access Cab-The Gini
2013 Silver Spur Finch Shell- The Oxcart/Gini's Burden-
#13
JHa6av8r
-
- Validating
- 510 posts
Senior Member
- Location.
Posted 26 August 2013 - 10:32 PM
I have my Grandby in a 6.5' Silverado 3500 HD with the overhang sitting on the tailgate. I haven't done the calculation but if I towed I would subtract some amount from my maximum tongue weight. I would also need to use a 14" to 18" extension which has about 600 lb max capicity. My left over tongue weight well exceeds the extensions capacity.
#14
Coast Ranger
-
- Members
-
- 6 posts
Newbie
- LocationCoastal SC
Posted 27 August 2013 - 02:05 PM
ET & JH,
Thanks for the replies. Have either of you got some pictures you could post? I might be fretting more about it than I need to. But I'd still like to see some of the rigs and configurations. With my luck, I'd have everything done, park next to one of y'all, and go "Dang, I should have done that.".
CR
#15
ETAV8R
-
- Members
- 906 posts
Senior Member
- LocationRepublik of Kalifornia
Posted 27 August 2013 - 07:36 PM
Founder of D.E.R.P. Desert Exploration & Research Project. A camp proper is a nomads biding place. He may occupy it for a season or only for a single night, according as the site and its surroundings please or do not please the wanderers whim- Horace Kephart.
2009 4x4 Tacoma Access Cab-The Gini
2013 Silver Spur Finch Shell- The Oxcart/Gini's Burden-
0 user(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 0 guests, 0 anonymous users
