Will 2010 Hawk fit on 2024 Chevrolet 82 inch truck bed with tailgate closed?

HiCap said:

If you could measure the floor from the front of the bed to the point the tailgate touches the bed.

Thank you for the help.

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Seems like you already have what you need but I'll confirm anyway that top bed rail clearance is indeed 80".

I ordered a new GMC 2500 HD Sierra Reg Cab long bed. I like the idea of having over 3,000 lbs. load capacity, no longer need to worry about overloading my 1/2-ton truck. I can mount my Hawk and close tailgate and have some room for storage between the camper and front of the bed. The tailgate has a built in step so should be easy to enter the camper.
Saw some pictures of Hawk on 8 ft bed and it looks good. The reason why I did not go to a crew cab long bed pickup is the extremely long wheelbase, would be very hard to turn around on off road situations.

A few less than obvious things to consider:

1) Not sure if a 2010 is the same, but on my 2021, the rear wall hangs about 3/16 inch lower than the wood skids that support the floor of the camper. In a conventional installation the rear wall is just aft of the bed floor and the rear wall hangs unsupported. You are going to locate the camper forward to be able to close the tailgate. If your rear wall hangs lower like on my Grandby you will need to put something under the skids to raise the camper 1/4 inch so the skids aren’t floating and all the weight isn’t on the front and rear walls.
2) There normally isn’t a lot of room for locating the tie down eye bolts between the front of the camper rear flares and the wheel well housings of the bed. That limits your options for locations that provide the desired tie down angles and provide a good location from a bed structure and backing plate installation standpoint. You are going to be reducing the distance between the flares and the wheel wells by moving the camper forward, potentially further limiting your bolt installation options. Make sure you’ll have adequate room for installing the bolts and backing plates.
3) The camper cg is going to be right over the axle or even slightly behind it even when the water tanks are full. While not ideal, this isn’t necessarily a problem because the camper is only about 1600 lbs loaded, but it’s something to be aware of in managing your loading of the truck.

When I moved the camper to my 2019 Ram pickup, I installed a 3/4 sheet of plywood on bottom because the bed walls were taller than my previous truck.

Good point on the location of the tie down eye bolt location, I will keep that a top priority.

The 2500 HD weight is around 7,000 lbs. The payload for the truck is over 3,000 lbs. I would think the weight of the Hawk would balance out the truck and give me a better ride and traction.

The main reason I decided to go with a 3/4-ton truck was not to worry about overloading, and aftermarket air bags or adding heaver springs.

Thank you for the suggestions, all good points to consider.

It was taking forever to factory order a GMC 2500 long bed, so I found a 2024 Chevrolet 2500hd double cab with the features I wanted. Put my 2010 Hawk on it and used the 7 pin trailer connector for the running lights and a 12 volt outlet in camper. Used the camerasource,com kit for my 360 camera system, works perfect! Also found an adapter to plug into the truck trailer connector to protect it.

New problem, when you remove the tailgate you lose your blind side/rear cross traffic warning systems! Have ordered a tailgate wiring harness from Chevrolet to splice the blind spot data wires threw to restore those safety systems. A lot of extra work, what was wrong with a powered simple tailgate! I plunged the tailgate in just to make sure my blind side warning system was working, it was.

New Man said:

This may be redundant, but I bought an after-market camera for my Tacoma (it's basically a replacement part for the camera in my tailgate), and the guy who installed my camper attached it to the bottom of the camper. (I could have done this myself, once I saw how he did it!) The angle is of course a bit different than the tailgate camera, but it works fine. (You might be able to see this in the photo noted below.)

For a step I bought a "Haul Master Hitch Extender With Step" at Harbor Freight for $30 (looks like they're up to $35 now -- inflation!):

https://www.harborfreight.com/hitch-extender-with-step-97685.html

I attached a chunk of doormat astroturf to it (see attached photo):

Having the step fixed to the truck is a lot better than having a separate step, and having the doormat astroturf on the step reduces the dirt in the camper.

Happy camping!

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I love my step, can use as tow hook as well as step. It is on Amazon.com. I installed a camera kit from Camera.Source.com that works great with my 360 surround camera system in the truck. My present problem is that when you remove the tailgate on the 2024 Chevrolet 2500hd Double Cab LT, you lose your Blind/Side/Rear Cross Traffic systems. Plugged in tailgate to verify the systems work when it is plugged in! Ordered a tailgate wiring harness to splice in the data wires to make the safety systems work. Picture of blank connector plug for protecting the tailgate connector when you remove it.
Wish GM made an adapter connector to keep the safety systems and water and dirt out of the tailgate plug on the truck?

Today I disconnected all the wiring harness connections inside the tailgate, all safety systems working on truck! Very simple tailgate, wires are spliced inside harness, or truck senses wiring harness removed? Protected tailgate wiring harness and put wiring harness up and out of the way under truck.

Hope this helps anyone with similar problem when you remove your tailgate on 2024 Chevrolet 2500hd LT.

Factory replacement tailgate wiring harnesses are less than $100 if you want to have your tailgate ready to go plus have your bypass harness left in place ready to connect on the truck. Factory tailgate cameras are also $90 or so.

Jon R said:

Factory replacement tailgate wiring harnesses are less than $100 if you want to have your tailgate ready to go plus have your bypass harness left in place ready to connect on the truck. Factory tailgate cameras are also $90 or so.

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Good point, I have one ordered, once I saw how simple the tailgate is wired, I removed my tailgate harness, I can easily wire in the replacement harness to my tailgate. I already have the replacement camera working with my 360 camera system.

HiCap said:

Good point, I have one ordered, once I saw how simple the tailgate is wired, I removed my tailgate harness, I can easily wire in the replacement harness to my tailgate. I already have the replacement camera working with my 360 camera system.

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HiCap...I went through the same decison and research on fitting a Hawk on my '23 GMC 3500 SRW with Muti-Pro tailgate. Hawk does not fit! R&R ing the tailgate and losing camera was not what I wanted to do. Expensive tailgate to risk damaging during R&R and storage.

I have narrowed my decison down to a Cirrus 620. Checks most boxes for me!

SoCalAngler said:

HiCap...I went through the same decison and research on fitting a Hawk on my '23 GMC 3500 SRW with Muti-Pro tailgate. Hawk does not fit! R&R ing the tailgate and losing camera was not what I wanted to do. Expensive tailgate to risk damaging during R&R and storage.

I have narrowed my decison down to a Cirrus 620. Checks most boxes for me!

Truck Camper and Using Multi-Pro Tailgate?

I am considering a used truck camper. Being as most of my travels will be in the Southwest, I am looking at both hard side and soft sided pop ups. On occasion, I may take my aluminum fishing in tow when camping. Traveling mainly alone, with passenger or two at times, but not enough to need a...

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I found out it does not fit! I removed the tailgate and used a CamersSource.com kit for the camera, works perfect with my 360 camera system on the truck. I do like my 2010 Hawk, looking at all the new ones on the market, I will probable replace it with a new Hawk in the future?

Our tailgate is 40 lbs, and located behind the rear axle. So we were glad to remove it.

rubberlegs said:

Our tailgate is 40 lbs, and located behind the rear axle. So we were glad to remove it.

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Good point about the weight. With the new trucks when you remove the tailgate you run into problems with the computer and safety systems, as I found out.

I had a 1500 Ram Rebel, put heaver springs on it to handle the weight of the Hawk, but I was at or over the maximum weight for the truck. With the Chevrolet 2500hd I am at 1/2 the maximum weight for the truck. No worries about overloading the truck.

FYI I weighted my GMC HD Multipro tailgate a while back and it was roughly 75 lbs.

New Man said:

This may be redundant, but I bought an after-market camera for my Tacoma (it's basically a replacement part for the camera in my tailgate), and the guy who installed my camper attached it to the bottom of the camper. (I could have done this myself, once I saw how he did it!) The angle is of course a bit different than the tailgate camera, but it works fine. (You might be able to see this in the photo noted below.)

For a step I bought a "Haul Master Hitch Extender With Step" at Harbor Freight for $30 (looks like they're up to $35 now -- inflation!):

https://www.harborfreight.com/hitch-extender-with-step-97685.html

I attached a chunk of doormat astroturf to it (see attached photo):

Having the step fixed to the truck is a lot better than having a separate step, and having the doormat astroturf on the step reduces the dirt in the camper.

Happy camping!

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Similar setup with a 3D printed enclosure for stock GM camera mounted I the same location. Angle to closely match the focal point of the higher stock location. This kept the overhead view close to stock.
Mounted a Carr folding aluminum hitch step for my lovely wife. You find these on fire trucks. Very sturdy.