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My thought was not that the spring system suspends the box but that it captures it when the frame twists the rest of the time the habitat frame is resting on the truck frame separated by a rubber strip or a wood strip.

Updated design, 4" of travel, 1/2-13 limit bolt, 2" x 3/8 angles welded to the I-beam on the bottom half for side travel limit.

I would happily provide the cad files to anyone who should ask. PM me. CAD is SolidWorks 2022, can be exported as any standard file type.

Well for one thing finding springs of the right spring rate, rubber will be quieter, newer designs use rubber springs. The M1087 uses rubber springs. And I'm handy with McMaster-Carr website so that's what I found! Suppose I could use die springs also. Try as I might I couldn't seem to find...

That's the standard upper frame section for the lmtv, and the standard lower frame rail for an expando van box. I suppose I could put two springs on top of each other with a washer in between instead of two in a row like that then I would double my travel

I was going to see if the water jet shop could cut my I-beam into chunks for me. Otherwise it may be the plasma cutter which I've never tried yet! What could possibly go wrong...

I came up with this design for mounting my expand-o-van habitat on my M1083 from looking at similar mounting systems including the M1087 mounting system. The lower bracket is made from an I-beam that I have that 6 in by 8 in x 3/8 in thick, and the upper bracket is made from frame rail portions...