Maintenance & Repairs

2 posts in How-To Guides

Full-timing changes maintenance. Nothing gets parked for the season, so the jobs a weekend owner does once a year have to fit around actually living in the thing.

What Full-Timers Do Instead of Winterizing an RV covers the version of that question we get asked most. How to Grease RV Wet Bolts is the underside job that is easy to skip once and expensive to skip twice.

Both are what we do on our own rig, with the tools we carry in it.

Maintenance & Repairs

What Full-Timers Do Instead of Winterizing an RV

Published on Jul 26, 2026

Winterizing assumes your RV sits empty and unheated all winter. Ours does not, because we drive it somewhere warmer. Here is the full-timer version, including the one job we do not skip.

Maintenance & Repairs

How to Grease RV Wet Bolts (And Check Your Undercarriage)

Published on Jul 15, 2026

Wet bolts are the greaseable pivot bolts in your trailer suspension, and most owners have never touched them. Here's the full undercarriage routine we run on our fifth wheel, done the way Lippert and Dexter say to do it.