Category: RV Mods and Repairs
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Plumbing Into an RV Propane System
Steve’s giving me a break and posting one of his tech-thingy articles – yay! 🙂 We recently purchased a portable propane campfire unit, after checking out many of them during our travels. Mona Liza just couldn’t wait to say, “It’s about time, what took you so long”?, since I had held off purchasing one for over four…
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Installing a Blue Streak toilet chemical dispenser
This is another one of Steve’s easy RV modification posts: I installed this kit several years ago and have had plenty of time to observe how it works for us. We dump our black tank at different time intervals – anytime between 3 to 10 days of use, depending on our travel dates. What I…
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Replacing an engine coalescing (CCV) filter
This is Steve’s post detailing some maintenance he did recently on the coach.  His mechanically-minded buddies may enjoy it, but probably nobody else. Betsy has been intermittently displaying a fault code indicating “high crankcase pressure” for quite some time, and after a bunch of research, I learned one thing I could do to possibly resolve the problem is…
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Installing an adjustable water heater thermostat
Like many of you who own RV’s, Steve has a list of small projects to complete on Betsy this winter, and he’ll write a short post about the ones we think might be helpful to others.  Here is one he’d like to share. If your RV has a washer/dryer and/or dishwasher this post is probably not…
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Water heater check valve and diverter valve replacement
The “guest blogger” has one more post to share, this time detailing maintenance performed on Betsy while I was in the Philippines – For several months we had been hearing a “squealing” sound in the plumbing near our water heater when using hot water. Although the water was fairly hot, it seemed not as hot as…
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Removing RV paint/rock guard protective film
My guest writer (Steve) is geared up to write a Betsy maintenance story, so I told the birthday boy to fire away.  My birdwatching tale will just have to wait a few more days…here’s a project Steve recently completed: If your RV didn’t come with a clear protective film on the front, or if the protective film on…
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Winter Maintenance for Betsy – Riviera, TX
[Steve wrote this post, Mona Liza gets the day off!] Like many full-time RV’ers running around the country,  we tend to slow down and “stay put” in a particular area during the coldest winter months.  We have found it’s the best time for us to complete the many little maintenance items we’ve added to our list…
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Blocks and Sunblocks – New add-ons for Betsy
[Posted by Steve] In between our bursts of travel to new areas throughout the country, we like to occasionally settle down for a while to not only vegetate a bit, but also to take on some of the little projects and upgrades that have been added to our “wishlist” along the way.  Of course, I do all…
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Betsy gets a refrigerator transplant
We arrived at Bonita Springs, FL on the first of the year, planning to stay here for a full month – the longest stop of our adventure so far. Â Steve had a list of minor “Betsy” maintenance and fix-up to-do’s, and we thought this would be a good place to complete them. One item that…
