When we put our trailer to bed for the winter we pull the batteries off the rig and put them on a float charger in the garage. During the season we leave the batteries installed and just make sure things are turned off. Imagin our surprise when we came to get the rig one day and the tongue jack wouldn’t move. In fact, nothing would work and after some quick troubleshooting, I found that we had a dead battery. I was…
In our first trailer we enjoyed having a winter bypass kit installed on the water pump and were sad to find that there wasn’t one in our Keystone Hideout. So I set out to rectify this situation and make the winterization process a bit easier. I chose to install the Camco 36543 Pump Converter Winterizing Kit and outline the steps for this easy modification below. I did need to purchase about $4 in extra parts at the hardware store, but…
When we purchased our Keystone Hideout we quickly recognized that the fan in the bathroom was a bit lacking. Ashley’s parents Airstream is equipped with Fantastic Fans and they can really move the air. However, the poor excuse for a fan that we had just wasn’t cutting it. So after a year of dealing with it I finally had enough and decided it was time fix it. This was my second real mod on the trailer and the first one…