West Coast Mags
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Currently mid way through my ultimate camper build. What I have so far is an old dodge truck that I swapped a utility bed on, but the utility bed rails are about 6" taller than a normal pick up bed. Ontop of the utility bed I have a 8.5' hardside truck camper. Due to the taller tool bed sides, I have a pretty big gap (about 18") between the roof of the truck and the bottom of the camper overhang. To fill in the space I plan to build a large storage compartment which will mount underneath the over cab portion of the camper. I would like to know from those with camper experience what they believe the ideal gap between the roof of the truck and bottom of the cab over portion of the camper would be. I really do not have a decent way to try to measure flex of the truck at this current stage of building, but in reality I do not see lots of extreme flexing from this vehicle on the menu at all, mainly graded dirt roads, deep snow. I would like to run as little gap as feasible in the name of reducing uplifting drag forces, (yes I know it will be like driving a wall) but I would like to reduce the effect as much as possible. Any input, or ballpark ideas what a good gap to shoot for is? I'm thinking about six inches, but really don't have any real world experience. Thanks in advance!
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