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  3. Frame-Mounted
  4. Front Tie-Downs
  5. Custom Fit
  6. Powder Coated Steel
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1999 Ford Explorer
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TorkLift Tie Downs - Custom Frame Mount - Front and Rear

Part Number: TL97NR
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$853.16
Truck Camper Tie Downs
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1999 Ford Explorer

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These custom fit tie-downs give you the safest and most comfortable ride when hauling a camper. They mount to the frame of your pickup - no drilling required! With the arms removed, the brackets can barely be seen. Great Prices for the best truck camper tie downs from TorkLift. TorkLift Tie Downs - Custom Frame Mount - Front and Rear part number TL97NR can be ordered online at etrailer.com or call 1-800-940-8924 for expert service.
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TorkLift Truck Camper Tie Downs - TL97NR

Highlights

  • Custom Fit for Your Vehicle: Mounts to existing attachment points
  • Damage-Free Install: Bolts to pre-existing frame holes so there’s little to no drilling or truck mods.
  • Stable, Low Center of Gravity: Frame mount spreads camper weight evenly for better handling on the road.
  • Clean Look When Unloaded: Removable arms stay hidden under the truck when not carrying your camper.
  • Built to Last: Steel construction with a high-impact powder coat resists rust and wear from rough travel.
  • Quick Turnbuckle Setup: Dual anchor holes help align turnbuckles for a tight, no-contact connection.
Made in USA

Features to know about

Stay Stable on Every Mile: Frame-Mounted Tie-Down Strength

When you’re hauling a camper, stability is everything. These custom frame-mounted tie-downs secure your camper to the strongest part of your truck’s structure, keeping it steady even on long trips and rough roads. By distributing the camper’s weight evenly and lowering its center of gravity, they prevent sway and shifting caused by crosswinds or uneven terrain. The result is a solid, predictable ride that feels as comfortable as driving without the camper on board.

Install Without Drilling: Custom-Fit Mounts

These tie-downs bolt directly to pre-existing holes in the frame, so there’s little to no drilling required. Because they mount tight against the frame, you don’t lose valuable ground clearance and can avoid cutting or modifying any part of your truck. The custom-fit design makes installation straightforward and ensures that every bracket lines up exactly where it should.

Keep It Clean: Low-Profile, Removable Arms

When you’re not hauling your camper, you don’t have to look like you are. The removable arms slide out easily so the brackets stay tucked under the truck, almost invisible from view. That means you can keep your clean look without having big metal hardware sticking out past the body when the camper’s off.

Truck showing nearly hidden TorkLift frame-mounted tie-down brackets removed for a clean, low-profile look under the vehicle

Tough Enough for the Long Haul: Powder-Coated Steel

Made from strong steel and finished with a high-impact powder coat, these tie-downs are built to handle the road and resist corrosion. The durable coating adds another layer of protection against weather, road salt, and debris so you can count on them trip after trip without worrying about rust or wear.

Secure Connection: Adjustable Anchor Points

Each tie-down arm features two pin holes so you can adjust how far they extend from the truck body. This helps clear fenders or sidewalls while keeping turnbuckles (sold separately) at the ideal angle for tension and strength. With multiple anchor holes in each plate, it’s easy to set up a solid four-point connection that keeps your camper locked down tight from every direction.

Close-up of TorkLift tie-down arm connected to camper anchor with turnbuckle on a truck frame

Specs

Construction and Material

  • Material: Steel
  • Finish: High-impact powder coat

Fit and Installation

  • Mounting location: Frame of your pickup
  • Drilling required: No (uses pre-existing holes in the frame)
  • Fit type: Custom fit
  • Configuration: Front and rear tie-downs
  • Installation hardware: Included

Function and Features

  • Secures your camper to your truck bed
  • Requires turnbuckles: Sold separately
  • Distributes camper weight evenly and lowers the center of gravity
  • Mounts tight to your vehicle's frame for minimal loss of ground clearance
  • Adjustable arms: Extend to clear bowed sidewalls and fenders
  • Anchor holes: Two options for turnbuckles
  • Appearance: Brackets remain virtually invisible when arms are removed
  • Made in: USA
  • Warranty: Lifetime warranty

Diagram illustrating correct placement and offset angles of camper tie-downs and anchors on a truck


N2410 Tork Lift Truck Camper Tie Down - Front Frame Mount - Custom Fit

N3404 Tork Lift Truck Camper Tie Down - Rear Frame Mount - Custom Fit





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Video Transcript for All You Need to Know About the TorkLift Tie Downs

Speaker 1: Today we're going to take a look at the TorkLift Custom Front Frame Mounted Camper Tie-downs. Now, this is a custom fit part. It is designed to fit the 2016 and newer Nissan Titan XD 6 1/2 foot bed crew cab, without the board or step underneath your truck bed, and with the factory installed hitch, and on a custom fit power wheel, I always like to recommend for you to go to our website and use our fit guide. Put in your year and model vehicle and it will show if this will work for your application.Now, these tie-downs will provide a nice attachment point at the front of your truck bed, for securing a bed mounted camper. The rear tie-downs, we do sell separately on our website. These tie-down inserts slide into the frame mounted brackets, and are held in place with this pin and clip.

If you just pop your pin and clip, you can slide the insert right out.Now, on the insert itself, there's two holes, so there's two adjustments. They're about four inches apart, so when you slide this in, you just line it up with whichever hole is going to work for your application. It is a frame mounted design, so it does ensure excellent handling. Securing the camper to the truck's base, instead of it's bed, will better distribute the weight to keep that setup from being too top heavy.Since these inserts, you can pull them out, these will be virtually undetectable when they're not in use, because these frame mounted brackets are underneath the truck. You couldn't see them, so the tie-down inserts can just be easily removed when you remove the pin and clip from the frame mounted brackets.Now, these parts are custom fit for your vehicle.

The brackets will fight tight to the truck frame. There's no loss of any ground clearance, and these tie-downs do eliminate any bed or bumper damage. They are a nice powder coated steel construction. It includes everything shown here, the two front tie-down inserts, the frame brackets, all the hardware right here, nice set of instructions, and these parts are made in the USA. That should do it for the review on the TorkLift Custom Front Frame Mounted Camper Tie-downs..

Ratings & Reviews

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These custom fit tie-downs give you the safest and most comfortable ride when hauling a camper. They mount to the frame of your pickup - no drilling required! With the arms removed, the brackets can barely be seen.

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My order arrived quickly and it appears to be good quality. The installation instructions are easy to follow.



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Installation was fairly simple, instructions were good and I had everything I needed.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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Worked great. Install was not bad. I particularly liked the fact I did not have to drill any holes.



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Great product! Fits perfect to the frame and very good quality materials. Even fit perfectly with my rock sliders.



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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.



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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.



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Great experience. The man that took the order was very familiar with the Torklift Tie Downs and was able to answer all my questions.



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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!



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Product arrived quickly and install was simple with supplied parts, instructions and tools.



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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!



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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...



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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.



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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!



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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



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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).



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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!



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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.



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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.



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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.



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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.



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This is the only way the tie downs fit is this a safe way to strap it down



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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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