Truck Camper Turnbuckles
Common missteps, key features, and safety tips to secure a slide-in camper to a truck using spring-loaded truck camper tie-down turnbuckles.
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Bowen Customs Quick-Release Brackets
Roam Lab teams up with Brent Bowen and his crew to design and install one-of-a-kind Bowen Customs Quick Release Brackets. These two-part jack mount points included a discrete mounting plate that is permanently attached to the truck camper wing and a removable jack mounting bracket that slides into the mount plate when needed. This heavy duty stainless steel combo was designed and fabricated by the Bowen Customs team and allows us to easily mount and unmount the truck camper when needed and stow away the jack points when not.
How to Trim Truck Camper Turnbuckles
Turnbuckles are a common tie-down method to secure a truck camper to the truck bed. However, our old turnbuckles were too long for our new tiedown system. Fortunately, it's relatively easy to trim the turnbuckles so that they are short enough for our new system. In this article, we'll be discussing what turnbuckles are, why we trimmed them, how to do it yourself, and some tips on using turnbuckles safely and effectively.
Trimming a stock bumper
Learn how to trim a stock truck bumper to fit on a new truck bed. This easy DIY truck mod can be done in an afternoon!
Custom Truck Camper Tie-Down System
You may have heard that we just installed a custom truck bed on our 2015 Ram 3500. It's a beaut! With it, we have greatly increased our storage potential while traveling with our 1970 Avion C11 truck camper. But it has also dramatically changes how we travel with our truck camper. You see, we have a completely new tie-down system for our camper.
Bowen Customs Aluminum Truck Bed Tour
Overland rigs are never “done.” There is always some new upgrade in the hopper. And while we have mostly been focusing on renovating our 1970 Avion C11 truck camper, that’s not to say we’ve been ignoring our truck. Along with…
Bowen Customs Truck Camper Bed Installation
It's been designed and fabricated. Now it's time to install our Bowen Customs truck bed with modular storage boxes and remount our Avion truck camper.
Custom Truck Bed Design
We love truck campers. Their size, flexibility, and convenience had us sold long before we found our 1970 Avion C11 slide in. But there is one very notable downside: storage. Sure, we already knew our camper would be on the small side. But, there’s a lot of potential storage lost where the camper body cuts in to make room for the truck bed’s wheel wells and walls. That actually adds up quite a bit of unused empty space (how much, we’ll get into later)