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AIRSTREAM CLASSIC TRAILER
OVERNIGHT STOP-EXTENDED STAY
Airstream owners have parked virtually every placing imaginable from filling stations to farmlands. In
time you'll develop a knack for spying wonderful little roadside locations by turning off the main highway
and exploring.
There are many modern parks including State, County and Federal parks with good facilities where you
might obtain hookups of electrical, water and sewer connections.
Directories are published which
described in detail these parks and tell what is available in the way of services and hookups.
On overnight or weekend trips chances are you will not use up the capacity of the sewage holding tank,
deplete the water supply, or rundown the battery which supplies the 12 volt current.
On a longer trip, when you have stayed where sewer connections and utility hookups were not available, it
will be necessary for you to stop from time to time to dispose of the waste in the holding tank and replenish
the water supply. Many gas stations (chain and individually owned) have installed sanitary dumping
stations for just this purpose. Booklets are available which lists these dumping stations.
When stopping for the night, your Airstream is built to be safely parked in any spot that is relatively level
and where the ground his firm. Your facilities are with you. You are self-contained. Unless the tow
vehicle is needed for transportation, it is not necessary to unhitch.
WARNING
: Do not parked in a manner that would prevent the escape windows from
opening.
Try to pick as level a parking spot as possible. Stabilizing jacks or blocks probably won't be required for
an overnight stay unless you extend a slide out room. However, if you put the jack pad on the hitch jack
and run the hitch jack down to take the weight off the cars springs it will provide some stability. If you
must parked on a slope, PARK FACING DOWNHILL. It is easier to level the trailer this way.
SLIDE OUT ROOM
The trailer should be level prior to extending the slide
out room. The front stabilizing jacks MUST be
deployed. If the front jacks aren't down when the
room is extended the side to side imbalance will twist
the body of the trailer if it's only supported by the
front hitch jack. Please read the complete leveling and
stabilizing instructions in the Extended Stay part of
this section.
Once leveled and stabilized, locate the switches to
operate the room. They are black and located on the
interior wall just forward of the room. The left switch,
marked lock downs, must be used first. The
lockdowns are the large paddle latches on each end of
the room. Depress the switch to the unlock position
and hold. You will see the paddle latch on the
forward end of the room retracting. Hold the switch
down until the panels are completely retracted and y
ou
hear the operating motors just start to strain. The
motors are thermal protected so you won't have to
worry about damaging them.
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