# Truck Camper Repair for Eastvale, California > Cabover, wing wall, jack bracket and tie down repair for slide in truck campers delivered to the Yorba Linda shop. Source: https://ocrv.info/vehicles/campers-and-trailers/truck-camper A truck camper is a self contained unit that loads into a pickup bed and is supported by four removable jacks when off the truck. Repair work covers cabover structure, wing wall and bed rail contact damage, jack bracket mounting, tie down anchor points, roof and seam sealing, and the compact interior and systems inside. ## Pricing Typical range $750 to $50,000+, 5 to 250 hours. A truck camper spends its life being loaded, unloaded and shaken. Unlike a trailer it has no axles and no suspension of its own, so every input from the truck bed goes directly into the camper structure. The unit is supported on four jacks when off the truck, and those four brackets are bolted through the sidewalls into framing that also has to carry the cabover section hanging over the truck cab. That combination creates a specific damage list. Jack bracket areas crack and pull because they concentrate the entire unit weight into four small footprints. Wing walls, the sections that drop down beside the truck bed, get scraped and split when loading is misaligned. The cabover develops the same fatigue cracking as a Class C overhang, and the front nose seam leaks at highway speed because it faces straight into the wind. Owners in Eastvale often keep a camper on jacks in a side yard between trips, exposed to sun on all sides with no shelter. Ultraviolet degradation on the roof and the seam sealant is aggressive under those conditions. The unit gets transported the twenty or so miles to Yorba Linda on the truck or on a flatbed, and all work is completed in shop with the camper set on stands. ## Common damage - Cracks radiating from jack brackets - Wing wall scrapes and splits at bed rails - Cabover nose seam leaks - Soft cabover bunk floor - Roof penetration leaks around vents - Pulled tie down anchor points - Entry door frame distortion ## Jack brackets and the load path through the sidewall Jack brackets bolt to the sidewall through a reinforced area of the frame, typically a doubled stud or a steel plate embedded in the wall. The whole camper hangs from these four points when it is off the truck, which is a load case the wall was never designed to see continuously. Owners who store on jacks for months at a time see the brackets slowly pull, showing as a crack radiating from the bracket in the exterior skin and a soft spot inside the wall. Repair removes the bracket, opens the wall, and evaluates the backing structure. Where the original reinforcement was a doubled wood stud that has crushed or rotted, it gets replaced with a properly sized member and a load spreading plate. The skin gets rebuilt and refinished afterward. The alternative, which is running a longer bolt into the same tired material, moves the failure inboard instead of solving it. Photographs of the opened wall go into the file so the owner can see what the bracket was actually mounted to. - Bracket removed and wall opened to see the backing - Crushed or rotted reinforcement replaced, not shimmed - Load spreading plate sized to the actual wall structure - Skin rebuilt and refinished over sound framing - Tie down anchor points inspected at the same time ## Wing walls, bed rail contact and loading damage Wing walls hang down beside the truck bed and clear the bed rails by a small margin. Loading a camper crooked, or driving with a shifted unit, puts the wing wall against the bed rail and grinds it. Damage runs from surface scuffing through to a split panel with crushed framing behind it. Because wing walls are thin sections at the outer edge of the structure, a split there frequently opens a path for water into the wall cavity. Repair replaces damaged framing in the wing wall, rebuilds the panel with matching material, and re establishes the clearance. Where the truck bed geometry contributed, the mounting arrangement gets reviewed so the camper sits centered and level. Bed rail contact damage is often accompanied by damage at the front of the bed, so the front wall lower edge and the underside of the camper floor get checked at the same time. ## Cabover, roof and self contained systems The cabover on a truck camper cantilevers over the truck cab and carries a bed. It flexes in torsion every time the truck body twists, and the front nose is the leading face of the vehicle in rain. Cracks at the nose corners and leaks at the nose seam are the two most common findings. Repair addresses substrate condition first, replaces compromised framing, rebuilds the laminate and reseals the seam on clean surfaces rather than over old material. Systems in a truck camper are the same as a small trailer compressed into less space. A fresh tank, a grey tank, a cassette or standard toilet, a two or three way refrigerator, a furnace and often a rooftop cooling unit. Because the interior is tight, water intrusion reaches everything quickly. Systems work is straightforward when the interior is already open for structural repair, so those items get scoped together rather than as a separate visit. - Nose seam stripped and rebedded on clean substrate - Cabover framing replaced where substrate reads wet - Roof penetrations pulled and rebedded individually - Refrigerator, furnace and cooling checked while interior is open - Fresh and waste systems pressure tested before reassembly ## Frequently asked questions ### Is it bad to store a truck camper on its jacks long term? It puts a continuous load into four small areas of the sidewall that were designed for occasional loading and unloading. Over months and years that load slowly deforms the backing structure, which is why cracked skin at the bracket is such a common finding. Supporting the camper on a frame or stands under the floor spreads the load and is much kinder to the structure. ### My wing wall is split. Does that mean water is inside the wall? Assume so until proven otherwise. A split at the wing wall opens directly into the wall cavity, and water entering there runs down to the floor edge. Repair includes moisture readings at the wall base and along the floor perimeter before any panel goes back on. If the substrate reads wet, that material gets removed and replaced as part of the same job. ### Can the cabover be repaired while the camper stays on the truck? No. Structural work on the cabover requires the camper off the truck and supported properly so the structure is unloaded and accessible from all sides. Once the camper is on stands in the shop, the nose, the roof, the wing walls and the underside are all reachable at once, which usually reveals related items the owner had not noticed. ### How are tie down anchors evaluated? By looking at what they are bolted into rather than at the anchor itself. Frame mounted anchors on the truck side and the corresponding attachment points on the camper both get inspected for elongated holes, deformed plates and cracked framing. Turnbuckle condition and the load path through each connection get documented, and undersized arrangements get rebuilt with proper backing. --- OCRV Center. 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. (949) 799-3387. info@ocrvcenter.com. Serving Eastvale, California in Riverside County, about 20 miles from the shop. All work is performed in shop at the Yorba Linda facility. No mobile, roadside or on-site service is offered. Scope is body, paint, structural, fiberglass, interior and vehicle systems work. Engine rebuilds, transmission rebuilds, drivetrain work, DOT inspections and emission testing are not performed.