Looks like they posted up! Gonna try to preempt some standard questions I get about my camper:
1. Q. "Why didn't you go with Cab and Chassis"? Answer: I wanted the spare stored under the camper - with a C and C you need to find a place for your spare tire. Right now I've got 285 70 R17 BFGs on it - almost the same size as the OEM tires so I can keep my OEM spare and it's out of the way underneath the truck. If you really want the "look" and decide to go with 37" tires etc. you will find that your COG is really high. Oh yeah, C and C config costs about the same as buying the truck with the bed.
2. Is your truck lifted? Front 2.5" level lift, back Deaver spring pack and airbags. Truck drives awesome with the new springs in rear. Airbags for me to level it out when I've got my dirt bike on the back.
3. Why not diesel? Reliability- check the engine configs on fleet trucks for municipalities not many diesels, cheaper maintenance, ease of repair in Baja (show me the mechanic who hasn't worked on a Ford pushrod engine), no DEF, sketch availability of ULSD in Baja, lighter on the sand, I don't pull anything, gas cheaper than diesel.
4. Gas mileage? A whopping 11.4 miles/gallon.... gasoline, yummy.
5. 4x4? Of course - with electronically locking rear diff.
6. Cost of camper? 37k
7. Cost of flatbed? 11k +/- but then I added extra back pack box, airbag install, ARB dual aircompressor with plumbing to both sides of the flatbed, custom water tank, ARB fridge slide install.... totall OTD with taxes to Peoples Republic of California - 18k ish.
8. Are you kidding me with how expensive all that stuff is? Nope not kidding - I've got no regrets - how often can you get EXACTLY what you want? Turning 50 in Dec. still time to be ************.
9. What would you do differently: As mentioned, let Mark fab a slide for ARB - maybe ask for wider boxes underneath (but that may have been a constraint imposed by the frame of the truck), coughed up a few more grand and had Marc mount the camper on one of his XPCamper subframes with integrated ladder - makes taking off the camper a 15 minute operation and the ladder is **************.
10. But do you really use the thing a lot? Truck was brand new in April '17 - it is only used for trips since I can walk to my job... 17k miles all camping in Montana or Southern Baja.
good luck with your build - do it right the first time and then use it 'til the wheels fall off.