In this video, I swap out our 12-year-old Atwood RV stove/oven for a brand-new Furrion 21″ stove. New features will include oven light, knob lighting, oven remote lighting via sparked, and windowed oven door. Installation was relatively straightforward, with only one LP gas connection and two wires for the 12V power. The new stove slide … Read more
In this video, I attempt to install an aftermarket Lippert friction hinge onto my Keystone Cougar fifth-wheel trailer’s entrance door. Unfortunately, the hinge turns out to be incompatible with my particular Challenger brand model of door. I discover the Lippert hinge is a little smaller, so it won’t fit flush. Anyway, I was curious and … Read more
Recently I repaired my broken RV wireless remote control system by upgrading it to a newer generation called the Lippert Linc system. To do it I had to upgrade both the control board and the remote. My 2010 Keystone OEM wireless remote system failed when suddenly it would not retract things. The OEM wireless remote … Read more
In this video, I install an auto RV screen door closing device called the Screen Shot. The Lippert Screen Shot is designed to fit right-hand hinged Lippert screen doors. It consists of a spring and a cloth strap inside a plastic tube. At each end of the tube are plastic mounts specially designed to fit … Read more
Last spring, I teamed up with Lippert to install and review RVing products as what they call a “Lippert Brand Ambassador.” Over the course of the summer of 2020 and into the fall, I installed/reviewed about a dozen different items. This spring, they have reached out again. They asked if there are any other products … Read more
Why Install an Air Ride Pin Box? A “pin box” is the part that connects your fifth wheel trailer to the hitch located in the trucks bed. The standard pin box you see on the majority of fifth wheels is solid steel with mounting holes on one end and the connecting kingpin on the other. … Read more
Introduction Not too long ago I received a set of Lippert Elephant Jack Foot Pads for review. They are an oversized 10” molded plastic pad with a slip on rubber shoe designed to replace the regular OEM installed metal feet. The idea is to provide a larger surface area to the ground making the trailer … Read more
Why A Fancy Pin Box? Our Keystone Cougar 276RLS trailer came with a basic solid steel pin box. This works well on smooth highways, but things can get a bit jarring when the roads get rough. I find it particularly annoying when we travel through larger cities where the highways have been badly worn down … Read more
A little bit of banging my own drum here but I’m pretty excited to see our beloved Cougar Trailer gracing the cover of the RV Open Road Magazine!! I knew my review article on the Waste Master RV Sewer System was to be in it, but what a thrill to get my photo featured on … Read more
Goodbye Old RV Sewer Hose My wife Anne and I have been full-time RVers for over four years. Most of that time, I used a Valterra Viper sewer hose. It was a significant quality improvement compared to the cheap sewer hose supplied by the dealer in the initial RV starter kit. Lately, our Viper hose … Read more
Nasty Smells in the RV Sometimes after towing our trailer I will notice during setup at the campsite the smell of waste tank odors. I think what happens is with all the rocking and rolling the trailer endures while on the road, the water in the plumbing P-traps gets washed away and tank odors can … Read more