New owner of a 1972 BF removable motor coach

[Hairba11]

That manual is way more complete. I have the maintenance and cleaning section, and I have a one page loading and unloading the camper, and a page showing where to notch the rear roll pan on dodge trucks up to 1971.
I'm going to print this out double sided at work. We have the plastic coil binding there too.
Thanks!

I checked my tag by the back door. It is a BF20 serial number 546. I wonder how many of these are still out there?

[Hairba11]

So since I'm losing 15psi/day out of my tires, I pulled the wheels off the camper this morning. I broke them down at work. They had been installed with a lot of sealer trying to make up for the rust. On the inside I saw the OEM label


I ran them through the shot blast at work to knock off the old paint (little) and rust (lots) and picked out some rust-o-leum Navajo white and got them painted. I have some old ford bottle cap style hub caps I'm going to try and fit on them.

[Hairba11]

Today while cleaning the garage I found a random stereo harness, so I put it to work with a random CD player I had laying around.
The camper now has tunes

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It replaces the AM/FM-8trac


I also got to working on an escape hatch cover.
The only leak I have is around the cracked corners of the vent/hatch above the bunk. I cleaned the old caulk off the cracks and tried some new but still had water come in when it rained. So I went to work Saturday morning and knocked out a vent cover cover

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And then figured out the cover cover wouldn't work. So I took the old cover off and robbed the metal parts out of it. And went back to work with the pop rivets.

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The gasket is 25.5 on the outside, so that's where I put the inner frame.

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I got it installed and even had the vent lift wheel track on the correct side.

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Tomorrow I will get some weather strip to make up the gap between the inner cover frame and the vent frame.



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[Hairba11]

Getting ready for a weekend run to the inlaws. Starting some interior touches.
Dad's wife used the leftovers from curtain making and whipped up a couple of throw pillows to match the curtains

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Also dug out a lava lamp I made a hanging bracket for when bought in high school, and a fan I rescued from the scrap yard and cleaned up

[Hairba11]

Things learned so far this trip:

I should get a spare for the camper.

I barely had enough tools with me to take the wheel off the camper.

Since the truck is connected to the camper, I have to use the truck jack to raise its rear axle while using both camper jacks to raise the camper enough to pull the flat off.

I also learned that even though the tire and jack tools are under the hood, the jack is under the passenger side of the back seat.

Also the wife will sleep through the camper being tilted 6 inches. And banging tire changing noise.

And that the original wheels are tube style and don't have a retaining lip for the inner bead which is why the tubeless tire bead slipped

And that rolling over the flat tire broke belts in the sidewall and airing it up revealed a big blister on the shoulder/side.

But TSC had a 13" 175-80-D13 on a wheel for $100.

[Hairba11]

Got a mattress ordered off Amazon. 6" queen memory foam delivered for $123. Shows up vacuum packed and rolled like a burrito


After unrolling and tearing the plastic off

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It was about 2" thick. By the time we made it to the inlaws it was 6" and filled the bunk. It slept beautifully.

I'm really liking this camper

[Hairba11]

Ok, I've been emailed by the admin because my pictures are too big. I'm doing this all from my phone via Tapatalk app, then copy and paste here. I haven't been able to resize any photos.
When I get a chance I will pull pics off the phone, onto the 8yo laptop, figure out my photobucket password and try to get downsized pic linked.
I apologize for any inconvenience to anyone trying to view my thread.

[harrisgowing]

No problem, I am really enjoying your posts and pictures!

[bfadmin]

Hairba11,

As discussed in the post titled Photo Posting Rules & Hints, the following two websites can be easily used to resize your too wide photos.

A) Image Optimizer - the following website works well for resizing photos and is very easy to use: http://www.imageoptimizer.net
B) picresize - the following website works very similar to the one above but is not quite as easy to use: http://www.picresize.com

[RV Life Is A Trip]

I LOVE YOUR CLASSIC BORN FREE CAMPER! And the new life you are giving it is awesome! And I thought my 1990 26 foot RB Diesel was a classic... So Cool!