Drew Callahan · June 13, 2026
If you’ve ever tried to walk across your fifth-wheel while it’s parked, you know the feeling. Every step sends a shudder through the whole rig. Coffee sloshes. Cabinet doors rattle. And if your partner is trying to sleep while you’re…
Drew Callahan · March 13, 2026
Most RV owners assume stabilizer jacks are bulletproof — set them and forget them, right? Wrong. The Crossroads Zinger 261BH stabilizer jack is actually one of the hardest-working components on a bunkhouse trailer, and it fails predictably because nobody respects what it’s actually doing. That rear bunkhouse layout concentrates sleeping weight directly over those jacks, … Read more
Drew Callahan · February 21, 2026
Walk into a Grand Design dealer’s service bay and you’ll hear one story: stabilizer jacks fail so often that you should just accept it as normal wear and budget for replacements every few years. Step into an RV forum and the advice flips completely — owners swear their jacks last decades if you actually maintain … Read more
Drew Callahan · February 5, 2026
Your owner’s manual won’t mention it, and the tire shop won’t warn you about it—but a blowout on a rig as large as Big Bertha is less a flat tire and more a violent, frame-rattling ambush that can shred wheel wells, rupture brake lines, and turn your hands into white-knuckled clamps on a steering wheel … Read more
Drew Callahan · February 4, 2026
I’ve got a particular corner of my workbench where I keep the worst-case scenarios—a coffee can full of deteriorated sealant samples I’ve scraped off roofs that looked fine from ground level until the rain came. Each one tells the same story: a factory seam that went unexamined, UV cycles that turned once-flexible caulk into something … Read more
