Drew Callahan · December 26, 2025
Diesel Engine Oil Service for NEWMAR VENTANA A Cummins or Duramax diesel under the Ventana’s hood expects specific oil viscosity and additive chemistry — use the wrong weight or grab whatever’s on clearance, and you’re watching turbo bearing wear accelerate on every uphill pull. This service sits squarely in the DIY zone if you follow … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 25, 2025
Top 20 Class A RV Models and Their Top 3 DIY Repairs The moment your Class A becomes your full-time home, dealer service lanes stop being an option—they become a luxury you can’t afford. A three-week wait for a technician means three weeks without your house, and that’s not happening. So you learn to handle … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 24, 2025
Roof Seal and Skylight Maintenance for AIRSTREAM INTERSTATE 19X Most Interstate 19X owners assume that a roof seal is something you check once and forget about — that Airstream’s composite cap and factory Dicor application will hold for the life of the van if you don’t actively abuse it. That assumption costs them thousands. The … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 24, 2025
Electrical Inverter and Shore Power Integration Service for AIRSTREAM INTERSTATE 19X I was elbow-deep in the lower driver-side cabinet of a 19X I’d just picked up when the owner casually mentioned, “Yeah, it won’t charge from shore power anymore, but the batteries still work fine.” That sentence told me everything: the Xantrex Freedom XC 2000W … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 23, 2025
Roof Seal and Skylight Maintenance for LEISURE TRAVEL VANS UNITY Ignore a weeping skylight seal and you’ll spend five figures fixing delaminated ceiling panels and corroded wiring harnesses. I’ve climbed on enough LTV Unitys mid-trip to know the pattern: an owner spots soft drywall or a faint water ring, figures it’s surface moisture, keeps driving … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 23, 2025
Awning Mechanism Repair and Fabric Replacement for AIRSTREAM INTERSTATE 19X Pull back the leading rail on a 19X that’s been parked in the sun for three years and you’ll see it immediately—the fabric where it crimps into the keder channel has gone chalky and brittle, flaking off in your hand like old paint. That’s UV … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 22, 2025
Awning Mechanism Repair and Fabric Replacement for LEISURE TRAVEL VANS UNITY “Hey Drew, my F45s on the Unity won’t retract all the way, and the fabric’s got this tear that keeps getting worse every time I deploy it. Can I just patch it, or am I looking at a full replacement?” That question landed in … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 22, 2025
Roof Seal and Skylight Maintenance for WINNEBAGO SOLIS I’m on my back under the Maxxair 7500K vent with a flashlight between my teeth, running my thumb along where the white lap sealant meets the membrane, feeling for the telltale separation that means water’s been pooling there for weeks. On the Winnebago Solis — especially the … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 22, 2025
Electrical Inverter and Shore Power Integration Service for LEISURE TRAVEL VANS UNITY A shop quoted me $1,800 labor just to diagnose why a Unity’s inverter wouldn’t switch cleanly between shore power and battery mode — plus another $2,400 if the unit needed replacement. That’s before the owner discovered the real culprit was a corroded TT-30 … Read more
Drew Callahan · December 21, 2025
Electrical Inverter and Shore Power Integration Service for WINNEBAGO SOLIS Most Solis owners don’t realize their shore power setup is fighting itself — the factory inverter/charger handoff between 120V inlet and battery mode is loose by design, and it fails in ways that look unrelated until you trace them back to undersized wire terminations, corroded … Read more
