Installing a shell

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What would be involved in a basic hawk shell installed on a F150.

I thought the campers came with factory eye bolts bolted through the floor,drill four holes drop camper in ,bolt her in and the camper wiring would attach to my existing 7 wire factory plug on the bumper .

What am I missing

Thanks for the help
 
The four wheel camper(s) will usually have 4 eye nuts mounted on the camper base.

Here at the factory, our normal camper installation is as follows ...

We will then install 4 zinc coated, forged eye bolts in the truck bed.

(2 eye bolts will go in front of the wheel well humps, and 2 eye bolts behind the wheel well humps, all eye bolts should be located at a specific measurement needed to match up with the eye nuts in the camper base)

We will then install a 10 gage stranded, double insulated set of wires from the truck bed up to the engine compartment.

This wiring will be hooked up to a thermal breaker fuse we install on the firewall of the truck, and then connected to the truck battery.

Next, inside the truck bed, we will install a small, heavy duty trolling motor plug in the front/side of the truck bed.

This plug is used for connecting the camper to the truck's charging system through that wiring we just installed.

4 small aluminum turn buckles will be attached to the eye nuts in the camper base and the eye bolts in the truck bed to keep the camper mounted securely.

If the camper is a full sized model (Raven, Hawk, Grandby, Keystone) we will also install a small green wire for powering up the LED marker lights / running lights on the outside of the camper at night (these will come on when your head lights are turned on).

Simple. Effective. And it works.

:)

You can switch the camper plug on the outside of the camper to a 7-pin connector if you want, but unfortunately we won't do it here at the factory.

We have never had good luck with using a 7-pin connector.

Will it work? Probably.

But we have found our system to be very functional, efficient, and reliable.

KISS (keep it simple)

Hope this helps.
 

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