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Truck and camper sold

Edit: located in Ventura CA

I’m selling my Four Wheel Camper Hawk model. It is a 1998 standard model (not a shell) that fits full size trucks with a 6.5’ bed. The camper looks its age but has solid bones and hasn’t caused me any trouble in the 6 years I’ve had it. The only reason I’m selling it is that our growing family...

I'll weigh in with my experience with my 2012 Tundra DC with a Hawk. I am running Icon leaf spring packs, Airlift airbags with daystar cradles, and Bilstein 5100 shocks all around, with the spring perch on the middle height setting in the front. Truck sits about as raked as stock except 1.5"...

I had something similar to this happen due to a bad battery that wasn't holding a charge. During the day the solar panel was supplying enough power the fridge was fine, but it would shut down every night. Finally diagnosed it by letting the batter charge fully with the fridge off, then turning...

I have the airlift bags on my 2012 Tundra, and would recommend going with Firestone. Airlift air bags do have an internal bump stop. They also have plastic end caps, which becomes the point of failure when the bag limits droop and you pull the metal thread inserts out of the end plate - ask me...

I have a pair of cable tripod jacks you can have, located in Ventura though.

You're good - BF Goodrich P/N 62023 is an E load range tire.

I just bought one of these to replace my (not working) exterior light on my '99 Hawk - looks to be a direct replacement. May be similar to what the factory is using now? https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B075YR4YNP

Not to side track too much, but how is the Bluetooth monitoring interface? Hard to find any info online. I like the idea of being able to keep an eye on what the battery system is doing without getting into the camper, since it's my daily driver as well.

I'm another 30 miles south of Alley-Kat, in Ventura. We still get a pretty good show from the launches. I keep thinking to try to make it up to Serra Cross park for a launch, you'd have a good view of it all the way up, but its too far away to get much of the sound. I think you could see the...

Figures they wouldn't warranty their bags when installed in a way they didn't design them for. Also they have a point that the Daystar cradle takes up about an inch of height, and could potentially lead to the bags being compressed more than designed to. Then again Firestone air bags don't...

We've used a PeaPod up on the cab over bed. It lets us put our son to bed early, then we can hang out around the campfire for a few more hours and feel secure that he won't roll off the bed. Once we go to bed we usually take turns sleeping up to with him, which the other sleeps on the couch...

Yeah I was disappointed that the bags failed on the first trip. They really are a solid improvement to the stability on and off road with the camper on my truck, and I'm happy enough with how the Daystar cradles are holding up so far. They've been on the truck for ~6k miles now, never had a bag...

I installed Daystar cradles on my Tundra with AirLift bags after I pulled the thread inserts out of the top of one bag during the first off road trip. So far the cradles have worked as intended. The only downside, and this may be specific to my application, is that since my bump stops are inside...

I like what you're doing with this bed design a lot, its giving me all kinds of bad ideas. Every great fabricator learned their craft by doing what you're doing, keep up the good work.

The cable jacks are now available, if you're still interested.

There's not a ton of MPG data for HD trucks, but you can find some numbers on www.fuelly.com for HD trucks

Its stable enough to lift, drive the truck out, and lower onto some sawhorses. Definitely helps to have a second person to help. I am upgrading to corner jacks because I want to be able to remove and install the camper on the truck by myself, and they are a lot more stable.

I'm going to have a paid of tripod cable jacks available just as soon as I finish mounting the corner jacks I just bought Functional but not pretty, would work fine for what you want to do. They look like this, not sure what brand they are though...

Check the pdf in the first post here, it lists lengths and recommended # range for each model http://www.wanderthewest.com/forum/topic/9038-fwc-gas-strut-info/

My thought too - I took a picture of mine last night, I mounted them out far enough to miss the rain gutter, and I think they could have been even further outboard.

Some additional Part Numbers since you asked. I used the 30# struts on my Hawk, and its borderline too much lift. Can make getting the front to lower tricky, but it makes raising almost hands free. I've found the 'turn on the fan and close the door' trick to work well for me. 36", 30#: Suspa...

I like using www.fuelly.com to get a rough idea of mpg for various cars/trucks I'm looking at. F-350's with the 6.2 Gas Motor: http://www.fuelly.com/car/ford/f-350_super_duty?engineconfig_id=299&bodytype_id=&submodel_id= F-350's with the 6.7 Diesel...

Hmm, picture is showing up ok for me? Hopefully my photo hosting isn't goofed up ...