My first exercise was to find a nice place for the water cans inside the camper. I came up with the floor under the window. This is a spot between the battery and the hatch, under the window. It is alread dead space to me since the truck is mounted full time now, I don't have to get in the hatch (still can if need be) and under a bench see that doubles as my table top. This space holds three 2-gal cans (only 2 in the pic though) and I will no longer have water cans sliding around back there. Center of gravity is low and centered too.
Next, I could always store a 2-gal rotopax here (below) with no mount. I have a hatch door than securely closes and a piece of firewood in front of the turnbuckle would prevent it sliding down the camper deep into the bed. It would sacrifice some firewood capacity, but there are always trade-offs- one type of fuel vs another in this case.
Having the cans in hand, I looked for other places to mount:
1) To the right of the door is one option.
2) ON the bottom of the door itself is another, but I'm not sure if the door can handle the extra 15-25#?
3) On the side of the camper, between the passenger window and the jack bracket. One can would fit nicely here and not block the side view mirror.
Wow, keep these posts coming, they get more interestinger and interestinger-may yet find something to try-keep it up and thanks for all these ideas!
Smoke!