Truck Camper Tie Downs/Turnbuckles 

Taylor Dzaman yeah I was lucky the frame mounts and tie downs were part of the purchase package of my 990 so I just had to pay a little more to upgrade to the fastguns. They are sweet for sure

can they be stolen off truck ?

What is the purpose of the sway bar?

FreeToRoam same here happijacs first go round and on new truck went torklift. Yes MUCH better for my 11ft camper. My question to you is about your fast guns. How do they adjust? Are they spring loaded? I find at times I adjust my spring loaded turn buckels quite a lot. Any info is appreciated.

Hi KZimmer - the Fastguns are spring loaded much like the front turnbuckles of the Happijacs, and also adjust tension by screwing the threaded half into the polished barrel. A rubber O-ring is used as a guide for determining amount of tension. After installing, and before locking the handle down, slide the O-ring up to the bottom of the barrel, then lock the handle in place. I don't have the instructions in front of me, but I believe they recommend a 1/4 inch of spring compression to get a few hundred lbs. of preload on them. When the barrel pulls away from the O-ring 1/4", you have achieved the proper preload. If not, screw the threaded rod in or out and try again. As long as you load the camper the same distance from the front of the bed each time, you will rarely have to adjust the pretension, if ever. All you do on the next camper loading episode is just install the turnbuckles and lock down the handle with one easy motion. Takes about 10 seconds per each corner. Very quick and easy to use after the first time adjustments are made. They come with pins to keep the handle in place while moving. I'm completely satisfied with them! Just worry that they'll get stolen, but they sell optional locks if that's a concern. Hope this helps.

Hey Phillip. We have a 2006 Ford F150 with running boards. Torklifts don't work and neither do the tie downs recommended by Happijac. What kind of truck do you have and what did you do? We are able to make the rear tie downs by Happijac work but are at a loss as to what to use for the front. We would like frame mounted if possible. Thanks for your help!

I love our Fastguns too. Amazing customer service too. Torklift will tell you to set the tie-downs pointing to the rear at the rear,... and point the fronts towards the front. Then use the Fastguns on the most forward point at front, and most rear point at the rear. This gets the Fastguns as parallel to the ground as possible.

You are so welcome !

I had a set of Brophys, returned them after one use. I think they would be fine if you stayed on pavement and very little offroad use. They had alot of flex, and by flex i mean not on the brophys themselves, they were flexing because the sheet metal on the box was flexing over small bumps.

Wow sorry just re read what I wrote. I need under mounts but am having trouble finding them. My camper moved around quite a bit. It is secured with those turn buckles on the bed brackets that the previous owner gave us when we bought the camper. It's a 08 shadow cruiser pop up

Basically a short box or long . There are truck campers to fit each !

cdLady54 Marengo that’s not true

I just installed a full set of frame mounted Torklift on 2000 F350 dually. Well made except the adjustable tubes that come to the outside. They are not all that thick and would probably fail first in extreme off road conditions. I plan on replacing them in the future with a thicker wall square tube or solid bar stock. I had to slightly modify the frame brackets to fit. Overall an ok system, expensive but good.