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I have an ATC Cougar (8 ft long, 82" wide) on a 2015 F150 with the extended cab (not crew) and 6.5-foot bed. I run with the camper on the tailgate. Truck is bone stock (no extra springs, airbags etc.) and rides just fine with the camper. Engine is the 3.5 ecoboost which gets about 20 mpg...

I just went through this and built 4, 3-wheel (triangular) dollies for my camper legs. I used some steel 3" casters from HD (about $5.50 each) plus some scrap plywood. Each caster is supposed to be good for 300 pounds so some overkill there. They will be used on concrete floor. I can easily...

Very happy with my wide Cougar. No issues with visibility. Some wind noise and decrease in fuel mileage (compared to no camper), neither of which is a surprise. Mine is on an extended cab (suicide doors, not crew cab) 2015 F150 (aluminum body) with the 6'8" bed (the camper extends onto the...

Sorry, should have included that info: ENGEL SB70F FRIDGE/FREEZER This is the 12V only model.

The compressor on my fridge occasionally gets into a state where it makes more noise than I consider "normal" and can excite a vibration in the door of the fridge or other parts of the camper. Annoying at times, particularly so at night trying to sleep. Anyone out there have suggestions on...

Use metal mesh screen or even hardware cloth (coarse screen with 1/4" holes). No critter short of a bear will get through hardware cloth. I have used it very successfully to keep porcupines from chewing plywood around our cabin.

I second the soft-close drawers. They have worked very well for us on our ATC.

We have the 84" Cougar on an F150 and it is perfect. Extra room is always useful. Just got back from 5 days on the road at Dawson City and other locations in Yukon, and were very happy with our ATC. FYI, we bought a basic shell with furnace and stovetop and finished out the inside ourselves...

I have an ATC on a 2015 F150 and had the same questions you have. Finally went with the torklift on the front, with standard threaded tiedowns attached to the jack brackets. Yes, they are pricey, but the happijac folks apparently don't make brackets for the new F150s, (I called and talked to...

Anybody have any links to real-world data on how these types of fairings perform? Steve, what is your source for the HDPE? Looks like Home Depot has it, but only in smaller sheets (up to 48" and looks like yours is considerably wider than 48"). Thanks,

Has anyone just welded the nuts onto the jack or jack brackets? Would eliminate dropped nuts and the need for a second wrench. Might have to repaint the brackets.

As has been alluded to here, with regard to aerodynamic drag, frontal area is less important than the shape of the item. There is an old video online about some aerodynamic testing that explores drag on a wire and an aerodynamic (teardrop) shape airfoil. The drag is equal on a wire and a...

It is a bit of an expensive solution, but the cabin is 2500 miles away and I'd rather not drag the extra weight or have the jacks hanging out there for the trip to the cabin and back. And I need to be able to remove the camper at either end of the trip.

My camper originally came with Rieco-Titan manual screw jacks. I'm thinking about purchasing a second set of jacks for at the cabin (so I don't have to haul those heavy jacks back and forth) and see that the Atwood screw jacks are less expensive. Any experience out there on whether the Atwood...

I'm using the external torklift tiedowns on the front and some jaw-jaw turnbuckles on the back (also exterior). I have an 8-foot ATC cougar on a 6.5-foot bed F150 with the tailgate down. The tiedowns on the front are only a couple inches outboard of the truck bed, unlikely to be an issue for...

Personally, I would NOT overlap the cross support as that creates a stress point at the other end of the plate. The alternative (this is real overkill) is to add a second plate that is the thickness of the cross support between the bed and your fabricated plate. Be sure to paint these well so...

BC requires you to carry chains starting October 1. Dunno whether they actually check that, but it is on a lot of signs entering the province.

I recently (end of February) bought a Cougar (8') to go on my F150 6.5' bed. Sits on the tailgate, and is perfect. Light enough to not cause any issues (although I've only just driven it home 125 miles) so we're happy with that. I want my tailgate if/when I use the truck without the camper at...

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Update on mine: Just picked up my ATC Cougar (8-foot camper on 6.5-foot bed) on Sunday and drove it home in our F150. It is a shell model with furnace and stove only (I plan to build out) and dry weight is 897 pounds. Driving home over the Sierra, I hardly noticed it was there from a...

Payload is about 2100 lbs. Camper (expected, I don't have one yet) has posted dry weight of ~1000 lbs + 150 lbs water + 200 lbs (full) fuel + 320 lbs (2) people = 1700 lbs. That leaves me with at least 400 lbs of gear or "buffer capacity" in case the camper ends up heavier. I cannot imagine I...

My two cents, as someone who hasn't taken delivery of a camper yet..... I got a F150 (2015) with 3.5 ecoboost engine, extended cab and 6.5 bed. So far (~4000 miles) I really like it. Quiet smooth ride, which should get smoother with some weight in the back. Plenty of power. Mileage, well...

Thanks all for the input. I think I've decided to go with the torklift on the front and build myself a happijac type setup for the back. Don't think I can quite justify the $400+ for the fastguns so will use a wrench and some simple turnbuckles instead.

Glad to hear someone is doing well on solar at home these days. With federal, state and power company encouragement, I installed a complete system a couple years ago and was fairly bill-free for two years. Now the local power company in Nevada has convinced our PUC that its more expensive for...

I'm about to pull the trigger on a new ATC. I have a new F150 (aluminum bed) that it will go onto. I much prefer having exterior tiedowns to the interior ones because 1) I dislike twisting myself around to access the interior ones, 2) I like to be able to see the tiedowns and tighten if/as...