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Yes, it's staying on the truck full time now. We chose to have no back window for privacy and insulation reasons. Awnings will just be ripped off by passing trees or rocks. This model is only 7 feet wide; exactly the same as our old Lance 165-s. The jax are Happy Jac's newest, sleekest, electric...

We've been out 21 days on our Leaf Peeper Tour of the North East. We moteled it until we picked up the new Northstar. We stayed at friends homes; National Forest campgrounds; state park campgrounds; private campgrounds; boondocked; stealth camped; and find ourselves today in North...

wing, a photo of your progress would be nice. I'm finding it difficult to visualize what you want to do. For starters, Ford pickup cabs sit a few inches higher than GM or RAMs. Whether this applies to E's, I don't know. You must be some fabricator. I'm not even sure this is the best forum for...

At the moment I'm a persona non grata in Klubb XTC. For the last 3 months and the first time in 18 years Jeanie and i have no camper. There is definitely something missing in our lives but this will change next month when we pick up our 2020 Northstar Laredo SC at the factory in Iowa ordered...

http://www.truckcamperadventure.com/jefe-tackles-canyonlands-white-rim-trail/ I tried to download it on here but ran into the 10K character limit and it flew into ether. So it's on TCA instead. jefe

My 2001.5 Dodge Cummins 2500 has a power takeoff access plate on the transfer case, but i'll never use it. Unless you are using the truck like a tractor, it's so old tech and terribly inefficient compared to newer tech. My 1966 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ-40 came with a factory installed power...

After my first attempt at posting this trip report here ended in the piece going into ether, ostensibly because it had more than 10k characters, it has been posted on Truck Camper Adventure instead. Here's the link. http://www.truckcamperadventure.com/jefe-tackles-canyonlands-white-rim-trail/...

Lots of ways to go here. If you indeed need a hard side camper, the Northstar Laredo SC (self contained) is under 2K pounds dry and has a lot of flexibility of features as each one is custom made and can be had for a short or long bed. If it's just you, you will love it. If it's you and a...

Some of these are part of that very narrow band in the Burgess Shale, or should be.

You left out one very important characteristic on your list: most trouble free and reliable. There are way too many variables in what you did list as important. More than a few on here will say what they wheel is the ticket. The way to TC nirvana is finding out YOUR real needs. WANTS will soon...

O.K. it's humor, but we need some right now. We've been so into getting the weight down without loosing off road capabilities, this ad just popped out at me: It looks as if it has 2 propane tanks and a lot of storage. What is that jack holding up? Is that an E/W bed over the cab? I have...

To the OP's point, 18 years ago we settled on a Reese Titan Class V (10K pound) because we could cut the tube down to just miss the end with the camper on the truck. It wound up to be a 20 inch long extension. We easily towed a 14 foot car trailer and my up armored CJ-8, @ about 7500 pounds...

Mark, good to see you on here. jefe here. Mark may be yet another refugee from another truck camper site. He runs a modern machine shop with CNC capabilities; is a great fabricator, and has a lot of great ideas for truck campers. Follow him well. Mark also claims that the front mounted spare...

Base Camp, If you are including Host and A.F. in your search, I hope you obtained an F-350 to F-550, dual rear wheel truck with a couple extra leaves; an extra upper overload spring, Stable Loads, a thick anti sway bar and heavy duty shocks to carry either of them. The other concern is how you...

That's good. Does the 650 go all the way to the front bulkhead? I'm only reporting what Lance had to say. Another potential woe is putting any of these on a Ford pickup. Ford has a taller cab so the camper needs a spacer underneath to lift it above the cab. Some use a 3 inch or 4 inch block of...

Buli, Ours is the GEN II, 24 valve Cummins with electronic injection timing. Most of the GEN I's with mechanical injection pumps are very high mileage and suffer with less HP and TQ than the GEN II. I don't remember the exact TQ difference, but ours has 245 HP and 505 TQ, and i believe the GEN...

To answer the OP; am I still happy I bought a diesel? Yes and no. I bought it new in 2001 with some assurance it would outlive me. So far so good. The only thing I don't like about my 2001.5 Dodge Ram HO Cummins is The noise. The 2001/2002 HO configuration of the Cummins is singularly the...

Another long road to nowhere on the White Rim Trail, Canyonlands N.P. Utah.

We just ordered a 2020 Northstar SC short bed camper with no air conditioning; no microwave; no TV, just the basic lightweight package with a LOT of storage and the 41 gallon H2O tank. Even it its basic form it has a lot of extras not found on other campers. For us, it was THE most well thought...