hi everyone if you've been watching our channel you know that we first survived a breakup then
separation and now we're going to hook up wait what get your minds out of the gutter
we're gonna show you how to hook up your RV at an RV park hi I'm Ronda I'm Angie and we are
adventures in no madness so in this video we're going to show how to hook up your RV at an RV park
to include detaching from your tow vehicle and hooking up electrical plumbing and your sewer
hose and everything in between we're going to do that tomorrow so stick with us hey we just pulled
into the Talkeetna camper park and as far as our first steps for hooking up your RV at any type
of our RV park we're going to check over the site first before we even back in so we're so excited
oh basically I just want to check and make sure there's no debris that's going to pop a tire
no nails or anything and
water works right on and the pedestal
is good and both breakers are off
all right so I'm gonna have Ronda back in and we'll hook up from there
before we do anything else including unhooking the truck or leveling we get out our surge
protector now if you have an EMS on board electrical management system you don't need
one of these we just happen to have one from a previous RV so for us this is really quick and
I'll show you how to do it with the EMS as well but for us we just pulled this out and
what you want to do is check the electrical box to make sure there's no issues we've actually had
a couple issues in the past to the point where we've had to change campsites or the campground
has called an electrician out to fix it so check that both of these are off plug that in and
I'm gonna put the 30 amp on and everything's good got two greens
all right so if you have an em EMS on board go ahead and plug it in off
now let's go inside and check the EMS all right so the other way I've turned the dms to
normal use we had it in bypass mode when we're using our generator and i'm getting a e zero
which means it is normal we have our little code thing for any uh EMS codes up there so it's all
good well next we're gonna check and make sure it's level and we're just slightly off we could
go with it the bubbles in the in the little bubble area but it's just kind of off to one
side and for a little comfort it's kind of nice to have it right in the center so i'm going to
cut a round is going to back up and i'm going to put a couple of blocks underneath the tires
that's better now we can chuck them and go on to the next step
all right we chucked both sides front and back that way there's no movement when you take the
RV off the back of the truck now we're going to go ahead and hook from the truck
so I'm going to disconnect the electrical
and the breakaway cable and the chains
so muddy I will be a muddy monkey mess when I'm done and i'm gonna undo the pen here
okay hold this off to the side for a minute
all right so now I'm gonna go up and take the sway bars off
lift this up a little ways
you do that so there's a little bit of play in the bars
that bar's up right back and I always put the pins right back in place that way they don't get lost
like us I have a hard time getting those back in
that chain and looks perfect round this up and put it away like that
I'll take the pressure off of here again
all right we're gonna lift up this
all right so it's gonna be a lot of times where this is kind of stuck on here you're actually
not supposed to take a big long screwdriver and pry this up which I've done many times so
if I just extend this slightly and pull this up the ball should separate from the receiver here
just like that
all right so I'm gonna put this down until it's level front to back
we normally have a little bit longer level the ones that are on the side here
once them all get stuck but for the most part they work all right
oh right in the middle once you get your RV all level then you can put down your stabilizer jacks
I like to do this manually because when you live on the road
you don't want to avoid any exercise you can get
it's really not that hard to do it by hand but you can certainly
use a screw gun so how this works is i'm going to get it down here all the way out
it's it's now touching the pad and i'm going to give it one half crank
all right so I'm going to use the pin lock just slows people down we have a whole security video
but I'm going to go ahead and chain up the lock up the chains
and basically just run them through the links here and then through the hole
I'll go ahead and put our proven industries lock on the front
all right so some people do not like to drive with their propane on we usually don't unless
it's a long day we're driving someplace and we need to keep our refrigerator on
we're not big fans of running it off the dc just in case
I know if you're like me you might forget some place and then run your truck battery dry so
turn those all the way on and then we can go ahead and turn the appliances on inside
so I have a new filter here there's a bunch of ways you can hook up your filters to your RV
and I also like to have a splitter so if we want to use water over here for whatever reason
we still can and because it's a new filter I'm going to go ahead and turn this on and let it
run out for a little bit oh did you see how dark that was let's get some of the charcoal washed out
I have yet to never have a leak on these be honest with you
all right i'm going to hook up my hose we use a zero G these are great because they're super
flexible really easy to deal with I do have a pressure regulator right here this one is not
one that you can change the pressure but these are preset to about 40 psi which is what you
want for the RV some of the ones that you can set at different levels a lot of people like those if
they have it going through a whole big filter system so that you have it going through your
filter at a higher rate before going in the RV so with this one i'm going to have it going out
after the filter it's gonna run some water through the hose since it hasn't been rinsed in a while
hey now we got water inside well one of the things you need to do at an rv park is dump your
tanks and we're going to do that right now now we did not hook up our sewer hose when we got here
because we usually do that when we're leaving you can hook it up but you don't want to pull
your valves until you're ready to leave some people kind of debate on whether you can have
your gray open it's it's in my opinion it's better to just leave them closed the whole time you're
you're here until you have your tanks full and then that that volume is going to push everything
back into your tank a lot more efficiently you want to do your black and then your
gray so let's get this hooked up right now now i found this handy tool if you're anything like us
my hand strength isn't the best sometimes so i'll put a link
to the description below of this tool right here and this simply helps you get your cap off
so it pretty much just fits on the grooves like that and then you can
easily remove that much easier than in the past all right and get yourself some gloves
okay and we got our elbow here
all right pull the black one first
we have a clear elbow
so that you can see when you're done I'm going to wait till the black is done and then I'll
pull the gray all right well the black is pretty much drained through so I'm going to pull the gray
all right here's a tip for you we've noticed that these drain the gray tanks drain extremely
slow compared to our first RV and one tip is when you get to a dump station you may want to
throw a couple blocks out on the right hand side of the trailer just to tip that up a little bit
and it will drain a little bit faster well hang on in a second because I'll give you a couple of
tips for making your camping experience a little bit more comfortable and the setup a little easier
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notification bell all right for an extra added bonus to make life a little bit more comfortable
or easier we don't have a LevelMate pro but that's a really great way to
get your RV level or at least you know where you think it needs to be when you're backing
up because then you can kind of maneuver around a little bit and there's apps for that so there's a
couple apps we might try the other thing is we love having x chocks so because there's
a little bit extra motion sometimes even walking around the next step for us and these make a huge
and difference just fit right in between the tires like that and it
really prevents some extra rocking motion and makes a lot more stable
and for us you know it just really feels more like a little bit more of a
anti-theft device too because every little thing you know helps slow somebody down
these fit in here so much better without a bent axle
I could tell the tire was a little wonky when I put these in once last year like
there you go here and if you get value out of this vid
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