etrailer | Mount: TorkLift Tie Downs on a 2022 Ford F-250 Super Duty

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Hey guys, this is Jake here with etrailer. Today, we have a 2022 Ford F-250 and we're gonna be taking a look at and I'm gonna show you how to install the Torklift In-Bed Camper Tie Downs. Now when it comes to hauling a camper in the bed of your truck, it's very important that you get it tied down properly, and these brackets are gonna help you do that. We do have some brackets available that mount inside of the bed. Usually, they go inside your stake pockets, and they have a little bracket that comes out, and you can tie down to that. In my personal opinion, those are not as quite stout enough for my liking for the safety of my camper, but these are going to be sound enough.

They will bolt straight to your frame. They're gonna be custom fit for the 2022 Ford F-250 with the 6 3/4-foot bed. I just, I personally like these better because you're not depending on the sheet metal that the bed is made of, especially because these have aluminum beds now. You're depending on the frame of the truck, which is what the main support plate is gonna be bolted to. Now, we'll give you some measurements so you can figure out whether or not these are gonna work well with your camper.

There's two different settings. This is in the closer setting. There's an extended setting that you can have it in in order to properly tie down your camper. So from the center of our bar here, from our bumper to the edge, is gonna be about six inches of extension. There's another setting.

We will slide it out, line it up with this hole, and that is going to give us from the center again 10 inches. So there's a four-inch difference there. If you've got a significantly wider camper, if it hangs way over the edge of your truck and you need to tie it straight down, this is a really, really nice feature that it slides out. And then when you're not using them at all, you slide them out. You can store these in the bed of your truck or with your camper.

That's probably a better idea. Store them with it so that you know to grab them. When you go to put your in-bed camper in the bed of your truck. As you can see here, they do not stick out past the edge of the truck. They bolt directly into the bumper, so it kinda looks natural. You already have an exposed bumper from the factory here or your hitch here is exposed. So it's really nice that. I like that it doesn't really change the look a whole lot. You just have this 10-or-so-inch cross tube here that'll be sticking out and ready for these brackets whenever you're ready to use them. Now, as for the front brackets, they're going to be about the same distance from the side of the truck. It's about six inches. Slide it out, you'll get that same four-inch extension. But when these are removed, you're not gonna be able to hardly see that insert tube at all, which again, not trying to change the look of your truck, just trying to get a nice, safe, sturdy place to be able to tie your camper down. The entire kit is gonna have this hammertone black powder coat finish. It's a really tough finish if you. Years down the road, if you ever need to touch it up, that is not an abnormal thing. We have it all the time with hitches or anything, essentially anything that's painted that's always exposed to weather. You could spray it, touch it up, but this paint job should last you for a very long time. Now, when it comes to the installation, this is not too bad at all to get installed. The fronts are gonna be a little bit more time-consuming than the backs. The backs are gonna take you about 15 minutes to get both of them installed because they're just gonna slide into the ends of your hitch receiver. As far as the front goes, those are going to be, I'd say it'll probably take you about three, maybe 3 1/2 hours to get both sides installed. What I really like about it and what I was not expecting is that you don't have to drill any holes in the side of your frame rails. They are going to bolt right into pre-existing holes that are already in your frames. They just bolt right up, you torque everything down, and then you're ready to start using them. But with that being said, let's go ahead and pull it in the shop and show you how we got them installed. To begin our installation, we need to first assemble our rear bracket. Now, because we're putting this on an F-250, we're gonna have to put this spacer block here on the end. It just helps take up a little bit more space inside the hitch because this bracket will be installed. This section, it will be sliding in the hitch. We're gonna take our fish wire, slide it down t