Thank you Franswa for this great write up and pictures of winterizing a big foot 17. Every year I find this thread and it helps me remember what to do and visually see everything. Big artic front coming in today, so here we go again. I hope this might be good for others today as I am not only one with this giant early cold front coming in today.
I have not been posting much, but love my
Bigfoot.
I got the new stainless deep sink installed with delta faucet and it is big improvement over the cheap acrylic OEM sink.
Everything works great and I have been using the
fridge all summer as pandemic overflow spot in my driveway, lol. I have had so many people want to buy it from me when they see the camper, but I am holding on to my big foot. I bought a combo of
solar panels, 2 renogy portable ones that fold into a case and I can charge my
battery and also charge a 500 watt inverter/battery to have extra power for ipads.
I upgraded the built in charger with an upgraded one for a better charging system. I upgraded my
battery to a Trogen 175 amp
battery that just barely fit into the OEM cowl and have twice the amps now as the old RV/marine battery. I can look up the model number if anyone is wanting to do that upgrade?
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Originally Posted by Franswa
you will need to buy a gallon of "RV anti-freeze"....it will be PINK in color
once you're all set up, you turn on the water pump and open ALL your faucets, ONE BY ONE, until you see the pink stuff running out of the fixture...(don't forget about the shower drain as there is a P-trap below it)
I will assume that your black and grey water tanks have been "dumped" (empty)...that's not always possible though....the grey tank can be "handled" quite easily....regardless I always leave the black tank (toilet flush) for last to get a large amount of AF in that tank (see second pic)
pictures of a 97 CB model BF17 (1500)......regards, F
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