Category Truck Bed

Bowen Customs Quick-Release Brackets

Woman sliding quick-release brackets into its mounting plate.

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.

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How to Trim Truck Camper Turnbuckles

Gloved hand holding a cutoff tool to a threaded metal rod as sparks fly.

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.

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Custom Truck Camper Tie-Down System

Man adjusting a turnbuckle connecting a truck camper to a custom truck bed.

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.

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Custom Truck Bed Design

Image of a truck camper cut off at the bottom with a schematic for a truck bed

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)

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