Its the gasket and cover
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Thank you for the BOM! I’m doing buying materials to do my tailgate now. I love my GFC, but these latches are miserable.
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Hey J finally did switch all of them out everything worked out the same I used a hand file you probably could use a Dremel but it didn’t take me very long. The only difference as I had the mount them with the weather flap facing up Ill attach a pic if you like
Let’s start a petition to get GFC to switch to the C5…who’s with me?
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I found out yesterday that my buddies keys for his camper locks on his 2-3 year old V1 camper installed on his Tacoma work on my V2 camper on my Ram 1500. My keys also work on his camper so they must be using universal keys that are identical for all campers.
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I’m curious, how is the barrel/key interaction? Any less vague and frustrating than than stock?
No I don’t find any issue but I do believe it is identical as far as the barrel is concerned obviously keeping the dirt out and little bit of graphite lubricant in the key makes a huge difference.
One key fits them all I requested that when I ordered them they all have a barcode.
I will say you have to spend some time really thinking it through when it comes to the placement of the template instead of evenly increasing the size of the opening you actually only increase the size on the right left and top when doing the side panels. This prevents the swivel mechanism from touching the strut which would prevent it from locking.
Hope that Helps
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Those C5s look really good! I can see your point about positioning to make sure the cam lever misses the strut…looks tight.
It is it’s still relatively easy what I did as I took the template in which I used the gasket to position it completely level at the bottom then with a piece of chalk I filled in the area right left and above it needed to be filed out.
There’s no doubt that there’s a possibility that a GFCI adopted your idea to move to the C5 there are different models and they have the capability to engineer it in a better way I was working with what was placed in front of me I appreciate your kind words.
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Mike said there were 10 different one when I asked last. Still fewer then I would have imagined.
at the very least make them an option. seems a no brainer to me. that’s $300 in parts per camper.
I understand keeping GFC the least expensive wedge camper on the market but little options like this would make a better product. I would gladly have paid an extra $500 for this option from factory. Just a little mod in CAD for latches is easy peesy.
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Boy that looks so much better than the stock latches. I hope the gang and GFC are following this and make the change for future users. This is slick. So far for me @jedgar ‘S solution is working for me, but when those latches inevitably fail. I will definitely be going the C5 route.
Great work Phil 
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Thanks for the discussion y’all. Been stuck with some broken or corroded locks and not looked at the forum for a long time. Have already had GFC replace a few also. But this solution looks much better, so I will try this as well
used @the_philxx measurements. and took some photos as I did it for anyone nervous about widening the openings. It went great thanks to the info above. Pardon the picture dumps.
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You can add me to that list; all my latches are still good. I would love to get these though; big thing is $$$$. Let me know if you get enough together to make an order and I’ll decide where I’m at. (Might be on strike or locked out come December)
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Id be hip to the grove. If yall put in a group order I’d be game.