Hardware Kits for 8ft Truck Slides Written By West Dausay1940 Wednesday, February 23, 2022 Add Comment Edit angelocardoc [OP] New Fellow member Joined: Dec 24, 2013 Member: #119148 Letters: four Gender: Male Howdy I'm thinking of getting a second gen Tacoma and putting a slide in truck camper on it. The Tacoma I'm thinking of getting is a ii wheel drive access cab 6 ft box. It has the 2.7L four cyl engine. The slide in truck camper will weigh about 1,100 lbs. My question is, has anyone put a slide in truck camper in a 4 banger Taco? Is this a bad idea? Steves104x4 Well-Known Member Joined: April 17, 2010 Fellow member: #35468 Messages: thirteen,337 Gender: Male Commencement Proper noun: Steve Buffalo NY Vehicle: 2010 RC 2.7 4x4 BUCKLE Upwards! It makes it harder for Aliens to pull you out of your Truck. I recall it's a little too heavy particularly in one case information technology'southward loaded up with shit. Overnice thought, though. That will be too much for any Tacoma. Steves104x4 Well-Known Member Joined: April 17, 2010 Member: #35468 Messages: 13,337 Gender: Male Offset Name: Steve Buffalo NY Vehicle: 2010 RC 2.7 4x4 BUCKLE UP! Information technology makes information technology harder for Aliens to pull you lot out of your Truck. Those old U-Haul Toyota dually v6 cube trucks could piece of work well and I ALMOST bought one (and even so regret it) before ownership my Taco. angelocardoc [OP] New Member Joined: Dec 24, 2013 Member: #119148 Messages: iv Gender: Male Back in the 70'due south and early on 80's they had Toyota RV's Todays Taco is way more robust than those. They're doing it overseas Are they congenital different over there??? Last edited: Dec 24, 2013 Steves104x4 Well-Known Member Joined: Apr 17, 2010 Member: #35468 Letters: 13,337 Gender: Male Kickoff Proper name: Steve Buffalo NY Vehicle: 2010 RC ii.7 4x4 BUCKLE UP! It makes it harder for Aliens to pull you out of your Truck. Canazes9 Well-Known Member Joined: Aug 14, 2011 Member: #61673 Messages: 663 Gender: Male person First Name: David Texas Vehicle: '07 Dbl Cab TRD Sport / '12 Dbl Cab Offroad angelocardoc [OP] New Member Joined: Dec 24, 2013 Member: #119148 Messages: 4 Gender: Male person I've had enough of tent camping. I'm too old for that shit And those were build for the weight, looks similar duelies on the kickoff one with beefy front wheels likewise. Await at the payload for a Tacoma, 5-lug = 1143 lb. Pre-runner = 1271. 1100 plus your weight exceeds the payload. Throw in some gear and information technology only gets worse. Final edited: Dec 24, 2013 I've seen a few Tacoma's set with a slide in camper...merely never a 4 cylinder. You'd be working the drivetrain way too hard to go along all that weight moving. Become the V6. nyfishhunter Well-Known Fellow member Joined: Apr 13, 2010 Member: #35183 Messages: 164 Gender: Male Beginning Proper name: Sean White Plains, NY Vehicle: 2010 DC 4x4 OR Pyrite Weathertechs, Pop N Lock, Whitetail Sockmonkey, OEM bed mat, Undercover SE, Wet Okoles, OEM iPod interface, Rear Bound TSB, Illuminated 4x4 switch, DTRL, Timbrens, 5100s (forepart .85), Eibachs, 1.5 AAL, OEM running boards, FJ TRD eye caps, diff sabbatical modern, trimmed front flaps, ImMrYo mirror bracket, Grillcraft, painted white Sport grill blackness Had a four banger 1st gen and stayed just under max weight rating. I sympathize it is harder to do with the composite bed in the 2nd gens. Rich91710 Well-Known Member Joined: February 23, 2012 Member: #73470 Messages: 16,325 Gender: Male First Name: Rich Los Angeles Vehicle: 08 Base Satoshi with FJ badge, factory cruise, factory intermittent wipers, Redline Tuning hood-lift struts, Hellwig Swaybar, Rosen DVD-Nav Not exactly. Those RVs were duallies, the truck was rated ane-ton. Manner over today's rating.Most likely, yes. Become check out expedition portal forum or wander the west for this question. TW is peachy only mayhap not the best source of info for campers. Enough of 2nd gens running around with campers like yous want. The 4cylinder may get tiresome. Dangermouse Well-Known Member Joined: Jun 20, 2012 Member: #81016 Messages: 55 Gender: Male Beginning Name: RG Texas Vehicle: 2013 Reg Cab 4x4 TacomaJack09 Well-Known Fellow member Joined: Jan 21, 2010 Member: #29796 Messages: 1,416 Gender: Male First Name: Jackson Montana! Vehicle: 06 Admission Cab 4x4 Billie 5100's, Ride Rite Airbags, Tech Deck Its been done, and once I take $$ I'll be doing the aforementioned. For the 4 banger I personally would opt for the FWC finch shell model because of the weight. Merely if y'all have one already, I'd drop as much weight as I could by removing stuff I didn't use or rebuilding the within to exist lighter. You won't win whatsoever races, only the 4 banger will ramble on simply fine. Add an aftermarket break and/or airbags and the truck will handle the load a lot better. There are tie downward brackets designed for our composite beds to hold the slide-in campers. You'll have to keep a close middle on your overall weight, and be mindful in the mountains, but the slower you go the more than y'all encounter haha. Here's a few links: http://world wide web.expeditionportal.com/for...-a-2013-Tacoma-regular-cab-Looking-for-advice http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/camper-reviews/beginning-look-2012-iv-wheel-camper-sc Google: Tacoma FWC Finch or the like and you'll see a number of threads Terminal edited: Dec 25, 2013 Bknox New Member Joined: January xiii, 2014 Fellow member: #120565 Letters: 3 Gender: Male NE Vehicle: 08 Base/Mods I-4 Hitch, Tinted windows, Weathertech floor liners, Amber anytime fogs, Intermittent wipers, Xtra D rings, Plasti-dipped wheels/badges, Tonneau encompass, Pop-due north-Lock, Fat Bobs AAL Leveling kit, DuraTracs, Slide-In camper, Tacoma seat covers, Black tail lights, Rear LED strip, TO BE Continued..... Here Is my 1983 Sunlite popular-height. SSG665 Well-Known Member Joined: Jul 24, 2011 Member: #60437 Letters: 781 Gender: Male person Georgia Vehicle: 18 Tacoma Very nice,wish I could discover i! BruceDog Well-Known Fellow member Joined: Nov 13, 2013 Fellow member: #116501 Messages: 53 Gender: Male person CT Vehicle: 2014 DCSB SR5 4x4 Leather I put an old half-dozen-pac slide in camper in my 94 pickup 4cyl and it just about crushed the truck. Looked like I was near to pop a wheelie. That said, the truck carried it all over Colorado and Utah, albeit a bit slowly, and I merely paid $600 for it. Simply it was actually no fun to drive and it reduced my gas mileage by more than half. With the actress coin spent on gas you could just stay at a motel, or, if out in the wild, in a tent or under a nice fiberglass topper. It sounds similar your going to put a lot of money into this fix upward with a new truck and the cost of the camper. I'd wouldn't exercise it. Non sure what your electric current vehicle situation is, but now that I have a v6 tacoma, I'd rather get a 10-16 foot travel trailer. Way more room in the trialers than the slide-ins. If you lot don't currently have a vehicle, then you could also expect at vans, which are quite nice to camp out of. Yah, I went with the travel trailer, a short picayune guy, Kodiak 166E hybrid. 14 ft actual length, 18'9" if yous include hitch and rear tire in the full length. The foldouts fore and aft are queen beds so information technology folds out to the equivalent of a 24' trailer. Of course the foldouts are canvas tops, but there's these things http://www.popupgizmos.com/bunkcoverpage.htm that are nice from what I hear. It's nice to de-trailer once you find a good spot, and yeah the room inside is overnice. Besides storage inside the trailer so it's non in the bed of the truck. An 8-foot wide trailer is better than a 6-foot wide popup. Plus an enclosed shower and toilet, giant refrigerator/freezer, ii 20lb propane tanks, two batteries. It'southward actually not bad offroad, encounter my lamentations here http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/arizona/306460-trailer-camping-spots-az-wintertime-4wd.html I'll add together to that I put the Timbren bumpstops on the rear then the rear end doesn't sag so bad with the direct hitch. They're alright for a cheap gear up, airbags probably better, simply existence a cheapskate I went with the Timbrens. So, in summary I like the trailer vs. slide in. The problem with a trailer is if y'all go down too bad of a route you lot gotta be able to find a spot to TURN Effectually! That can be a pain, and has been. The WDH was a big part of the problem trying to turn around, it doesn't take well to torqueing the trailer to weird angles, information technology got tore up pretty good. Just I can see this trailer being a capable offroader with the one crucial mod, fifteen" wheels. Smiley Active Member Joined: February 4, 2012 Member: #72156 Messages: xxx Gender: Male person CoLoRaDo Vehicle: 12 RegCab SB 4x4 Dual Optima bombardment set-up, One thousand&Due north intake, Yellow wire mod, Leer/cab high shell, Roof Rack, BedRug, Rock Sliders/congenital and installed, Front Bumper w/winch in progress Everyone know if regearing the truck would work for what he wants? The trucks rated payload chapters 1400Lbs or then. So wouldn't it handle the weight ok? even with a reasonable amount of gear? My dog drops my chapters down to 1260 Lbs. LoL He's a fin Yeti Products Discussed in Share this post
Howdy I'm thinking of getting a second gen Tacoma and putting a slide in truck camper on it. The Tacoma I'm thinking of getting is a ii wheel drive access cab 6 ft box. It has the 2.7L four cyl engine. The slide in truck camper will weigh about 1,100 lbs. My question is, has anyone put a slide in truck camper in a 4 banger Taco? Is this a bad idea?
I recall it's a little too heavy particularly in one case information technology'southward loaded up with shit. Overnice thought, though.
Those old U-Haul Toyota dually v6 cube trucks could piece of work well and I ALMOST bought one (and even so regret it) before ownership my Taco.
Back in the 70'due south and early on 80's they had Toyota RV's Todays Taco is way more robust than those. They're doing it overseas Are they congenital different over there???
And those were build for the weight, looks similar duelies on the kickoff one with beefy front wheels likewise. Await at the payload for a Tacoma, 5-lug = 1143 lb. Pre-runner = 1271. 1100 plus your weight exceeds the payload. Throw in some gear and information technology only gets worse.
I've seen a few Tacoma's set with a slide in camper...merely never a 4 cylinder. You'd be working the drivetrain way too hard to go along all that weight moving. Become the V6.
Had a four banger 1st gen and stayed just under max weight rating. I sympathize it is harder to do with the composite bed in the 2nd gens.
Not exactly. Those RVs were duallies, the truck was rated ane-ton. Manner over today's rating.Most likely, yes.
Become check out expedition portal forum or wander the west for this question. TW is peachy only mayhap not the best source of info for campers. Enough of 2nd gens running around with campers like yous want. The 4cylinder may get tiresome.
Its been done, and once I take $$ I'll be doing the aforementioned. For the 4 banger I personally would opt for the FWC finch shell model because of the weight. Merely if y'all have one already, I'd drop as much weight as I could by removing stuff I didn't use or rebuilding the within to exist lighter. You won't win whatsoever races, only the 4 banger will ramble on simply fine. Add an aftermarket break and/or airbags and the truck will handle the load a lot better. There are tie downward brackets designed for our composite beds to hold the slide-in campers. You'll have to keep a close middle on your overall weight, and be mindful in the mountains, but the slower you go the more than y'all encounter haha. Here's a few links: http://world wide web.expeditionportal.com/for...-a-2013-Tacoma-regular-cab-Looking-for-advice http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/camper-reviews/beginning-look-2012-iv-wheel-camper-sc Google: Tacoma FWC Finch or the like and you'll see a number of threads
I put an old half-dozen-pac slide in camper in my 94 pickup 4cyl and it just about crushed the truck. Looked like I was near to pop a wheelie. That said, the truck carried it all over Colorado and Utah, albeit a bit slowly, and I merely paid $600 for it. Simply it was actually no fun to drive and it reduced my gas mileage by more than half. With the actress coin spent on gas you could just stay at a motel, or, if out in the wild, in a tent or under a nice fiberglass topper. It sounds similar your going to put a lot of money into this fix upward with a new truck and the cost of the camper. I'd wouldn't exercise it. Non sure what your electric current vehicle situation is, but now that I have a v6 tacoma, I'd rather get a 10-16 foot travel trailer. Way more room in the trialers than the slide-ins. If you lot don't currently have a vehicle, then you could also expect at vans, which are quite nice to camp out of.
Yah, I went with the travel trailer, a short picayune guy, Kodiak 166E hybrid. 14 ft actual length, 18'9" if yous include hitch and rear tire in the full length. The foldouts fore and aft are queen beds so information technology folds out to the equivalent of a 24' trailer. Of course the foldouts are canvas tops, but there's these things http://www.popupgizmos.com/bunkcoverpage.htm that are nice from what I hear. It's nice to de-trailer once you find a good spot, and yeah the room inside is overnice. Besides storage inside the trailer so it's non in the bed of the truck. An 8-foot wide trailer is better than a 6-foot wide popup. Plus an enclosed shower and toilet, giant refrigerator/freezer, ii 20lb propane tanks, two batteries. It'southward actually not bad offroad, encounter my lamentations here http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/arizona/306460-trailer-camping-spots-az-wintertime-4wd.html I'll add together to that I put the Timbren bumpstops on the rear then the rear end doesn't sag so bad with the direct hitch. They're alright for a cheap gear up, airbags probably better, simply existence a cheapskate I went with the Timbrens. So, in summary I like the trailer vs. slide in. The problem with a trailer is if y'all go down too bad of a route you lot gotta be able to find a spot to TURN Effectually! That can be a pain, and has been. The WDH was a big part of the problem trying to turn around, it doesn't take well to torqueing the trailer to weird angles, information technology got tore up pretty good. Just I can see this trailer being a capable offroader with the one crucial mod, fifteen" wheels.
Everyone know if regearing the truck would work for what he wants? The trucks rated payload chapters 1400Lbs or then. So wouldn't it handle the weight ok? even with a reasonable amount of gear? My dog drops my chapters down to 1260 Lbs. LoL He's a fin Yeti
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