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When you’re driving long distances with a camper, stability is everything. These custom frame-mounted tie-downs secure your camper directly to the strongest part of your truck—the frame—so weight is distributed evenly and the center of gravity stays low. That means your rig handles like it should, even on rough or windy roads, without the top-heavy sway that comes from bed or bumper mounts.
These tie-downs bolt straight into pre-existing holes in your truck’s frame, so there’s little to no drilling and no cutting needed. The custom fit keeps everything tight to the frame for minimal loss of ground clearance, making them easy to live with whether the camper’s loaded or not. Once mounted, they’re ready for turnbuckles (sold separately) to lock in a secure connection from multiple angles.
Nobody wants hardware sticking out when they’re not using it. With these tie-downs, the arms remove easily, leaving only low-profile brackets tucked beneath the body. When the camper’s off, the brackets are barely noticeable—your truck keeps its clean look without extra parts hanging down.
Road salt, rain, and rough terrain are no match for these tie-downs. The arms are made from rustproof aluminum and the receiver brackets from stainless steel, all finished with a high-impact powder coat for extra protection. You get a setup tough enough for years of travel without worrying about corrosion or weakening over time.
Each tie-down arm has two pin holes so you can choose how far out it extends—perfect for clearing fenders or sidewalls and lining up your turnbuckles just right. Two anchor holes on the attachment plate help you position your camper at the proper angle for maximum hold and stability mile after mile.
Videos are provided as a guide only. Refer to manufacturer installation instructions and specs for complete information.
Hello everybody, this is Jeff at etrailer.com. Today we're gonna take a look at this TorkLift Talon custom front frame-mounted camper tie-downs. Now these are a custom fit part. They are designed to fit the 2008 to 2016 Ford F-250, F-350 Super Duty short bed trucks, and without the border step underneath the truck bed. On a custom fit part like this, I do recommend for you to go to our website, use the fit guide, put in your year and model vehicle, and it'll show if this will work for your application. Now, this part will include everything shown here on the table.
It includes the two aluminum tie-down inserts that'll insert into the two steel frame brackets. Comes with the rubber covers that you'll put on here when you're not using the inserts, Comes with the mounting hardware to install it all, and a nice set of instructions that'll describe how this all goes together. Now these tie-downs will provide attachment points at the front of your truck for securing your bed mounted camper to your vehicle. Now these are front tie-downs. We do also sell rear tie-downs.
Those are sold separately on our website. Basically one tie-down will go on the driver's side, the other one on the passenger side. And then right up front here on the insert, you can see there's two holes on the tie-down inserts. This allows you to connect your turnbuckles that are from your camper to the truck and not interfere with anything on your vehicle. As I mentioned, the inserts that go into the steel brackets here are aluminum construction.
And I wanted to show you on those inserts, if you take your pin and clip out, you can slide the insert out. And again, they're aluminum, but if you notice, there's two holes here, and the reason they have two holes on the shank, it allows for different width campers. So if you slide it into the insert and hit the first hole, that's for a wider camper, you slide it all the way to the second hole, that's for a little bit narrower camper. So it gives you a range of whatever width camper yours is, fits your application. Now, these will give you a dramatic improvement with the vehicle handling and stability, and it is the safest way to haul a truck camper.
Prevents any vehicle sway and camper movement in all directions. These will let you haul your truck camper confidently by attaching the tie-downs to the strongest part of your truck, which is the frame, and vehicle manufacturers do recommend that all full high slide-in camper bodies should be directly attached to the vehicle frame structure. The frame mounted design ensures excellent handling by securing the camper to the truck's base instead of just to its bed. And it'll better distribute the weight to keep the set up from being too top heavy. To install these, it is a fast, no-drill installation, securing your camper to your truck. You can maintain the value of your truck and prevent rusted bed damage by avoiding drilling into your truck bed or bumper. As we mentioned, they are custom fit for your vehicle, driver's side, passenger side brackets, and these brackets, they will fit tight to your truck frame so there's no loss of any ground clearance. So it's perfect for any off-road truck camping. And what's nice, is when you're not using your camper, you can take these inserts out, both of these inserts. And then these brackets that'll be mounted to your truck. They're virtually undetectable when they're not in use. So when you remove those inserts, you can take your rubber covers that they include, just pop it over the opening of the insert here. And once you get it over there, and what that does is it keeps any dirt or grime from building up in there. So you put the covers on, you keep that out of there. And then when you're ready to install, you just pop your cover off and put your inserts in. What's nice is the hidden design of these brackets. They'll return your truck to its original look when they're not being used as tie-downs. And these brackets that bound to your truck frame, they are steel construction, have a nice black powder coat finish on the brackets and even on the aluminum inserts. These parts are made in the USA. And again, just to show you, if we pop the cover off, take your insert, go ahead and slide it in. I'm gonna go to the second hole and then line it, pin up, put it through the hole, pop your clip in, and like that you're all ready to go. You just hook your turn buckles to the holes up front here. These parts are made in the USA. But that should do it for the review on the TorkLift Talon custom front frame-mounted camper tie-downs..
Ratings & Reviews
My order arrived quickly and it appears to be good quality. The installation instructions are easy to follow.
Installation was fairly simple, instructions were good and I had everything I needed.
Only had one issue passenger front the last didn’t line up bolt didn’t got in I had side drill on the bracket a little to get it figures the last one I did the rest was easy.
To start, e-trailer has always been good to me and I have purchased from them many times. This product is well built and for that they would get high marks. The packaging was terrible! Heavy metal parts not adequately wrapped, thus one of arms punctured through the box. The plastic bag inside holding all parts is not adequately sealed (just a pinch seal like a ziplock bag) thus it opened up spilling contents all through the inside of box. When I went to pick it up from delivery, contents were spilling out all over. I photographed and notified e-trailer. I’d suggest better packaging and use box tape to seal the hardware bag.
Installation took me about 45 minutes. The directions are not good, but enough to get them installed without much trouble.
The tie down work great on my 2024 F350 SRW Tremor.
Worked great. Install was not bad. I particularly liked the fact I did not have to drill any holes.
Great product! Fits perfect to the frame and very good quality materials. Even fit perfectly with my rock sliders.
Fairly easy installation. Good instructions, but it helps to watch one of the YouTube videos first. With just the receivers, you can hardly even see them, they’re tucked underneath so well. Very sturdy. I feel very confident that no matter what, these babies will hold. They’re pricy, but well worth it.
I did a lot of research to find the right kind of frame mounts for my dads truck. Lots of local RV places didn't even know what I was looking for, or quoted me for the wrong parts. After I was certain I found the right tie downs, I contacted etrailer customer service chat representative and they were a great help at confirming the parts I found would in fact fit my dads truck. My husband and dad installed them in less than 2 hours. The parts came quickly and in excellent packaging/condition.
Great experience. The man that took the order was very familiar with the Torklift Tie Downs and was able to answer all my questions.
I installed these on a 2019 F250 Super Duty. The most challenging step was loosening the leaf spring nuts. Once that was done, the install was a piece of cake. Tehran not in use, they are not very noticeable. They are very sturdy and hold the camper securely. Although the entire system (w/fast guns) is a bit pricey, they are well worth it!
Product arrived quickly and install was simple with supplied parts, instructions and tools.
With the exception of removing the emergency brake lines. I could have done this job of mounting the front and rear mounts in under two hours, instead of three. Excellent design and looks great!
Order the kit. This is the second set I have ordered in the last few months. etrailer ships fast and makes sure you can track your shipments. Also notifies you every step of the way. I appreciate the follow through with keeping me informed at when my package will arrive. I tried to buy these direct from the manufacture but they wanted more than etrailer and I had to find back and front sets. They did not sell them in kits.
Also glad the etrailer doesn't play the game of shipping in the lower 48 states only BS, there are 50 official states ins the USA (51 if your counting Alberta)! Plus numerous US territories...
Second set of Torklift camper tiedown brackets I have purchased. 1999 Dodge 2500 and 2016 Ram 3500. Fit good. No drilling. I would buy again. Good product. (I am a certified ASME, AWS, API, welder and fabricator). No hype, just fact.
Ordered for 2025 GMC 3500HD to carry our Arctic Fox slide in camper. Kits were shipped right away and arrived in Anchorage in 5 days (as ordered). The tie downs are excellent quality, all hardware arrived with the kit, instructions were "OK", installation on rear tie downs a little tricky, but managed to do ourselves. Looking forward to some great camping adventures. Thanks for the GREAT service!
I would say that the Torklift kit fit my 2024 GMC sierra pro crew cab perfectly the shipping to Canada took 5 days which I thought was fast delivery and it shipped the same day it was ordered
We had a hiccup with my order and it was lost in cyberspace for a day until I called and was able to get it going. Unfortunately, I needed them by Saturday and I ordered them Wednesday. They didn't ship until Thursday afternoon and didn't arrive until Monday. The seller of the camper was kind enough to hold the camper for me, but it was touch and go there for a while.
Installing them was a challenging because the pictures in the guide were difficult to see which slowed the installation down a little. It took 2 of us about 3 hours to install them. Now that they are on the truck with the camper they seem to be working great! The only problem remaining is the front tie downs use a bolt to hold the tie down to the frame and it obstructs the passage, so it will only advance as far as the first pin making the second hole unreachable (it sticks out from the truck a few extra inches and makes the extension wobble up and down until the turnbuckle was installed).
great fit, works great, strong parts, works perfect! etrailer was excellent in making sure I received the correct parts. I highly recommend etrailer, if in doubt, call them, don't try and wing it, they will set you up with the correct parts! I will use etrailer again!
These things are heavy duty. Straightforward installation, just follow the instructions and videos. Fit like a glove and are rock solid. Thanks etrailer for fast shipping and Torklift for great products.
Absolutely the only way to correctly attach your truck camper. Pair these white Fastguns and it’s a great combo. I just went on a 5000 mile trip with my TC and never moved an inch.
They seem stout and were easy enough to install. I added my own 2” square rubber caps to the ends to keep road debris out when they’re not in use, those should be included. For $850 the packaging could use some work. They arrived all banged up, the “high impact powder coat” is worn off in several areas leaving bare steel exposed.
I ordered this kit for my 2018 Ford F150 'Heavy Half' regular cab, long bed pickup. The tie downs came with all the necessary hardware, good instructions, were easy to install with basic tools, and required no drilling. Shipping was very fast. I would absolutely recommend TorkLift tie downs and etrailer.com.
This is the only way the tie downs fit is this a safe way to strap it down
After selling previous truck camper and getting a new truck these tie downs are outstanding. The direct fit for year make model is awesome. Takes the guess work out installation. The install instructions were really good as well as etrailers videos. etrailer is the great providing product install walk thru. The adjustability of these tie downs made my life easier when I picked up my new TLRV 8 foot truck camper.
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