B+ motorhomes

cheeze1 wrote:
It sits in an open lot on dirt/grass, with some gravel.

Chas,forget covering it ,best thing you can do is get a good tarp and drive the RV on it , peg the tarp all around so it stays and that will take care of any further chassis rust. I know as you said you can repaint it and treat it but there are areas that you just can't get at. You want to keep the moisture from getting onto the frame.
I know I have a mental problem ,I'm a nut case on car care ( just ask my wife ) if I hear a noise ,I'll take the engine apart to find out what it is, my wife on the other hand thinks that if you leave it alone it will go away!!
I just got finished flushing all of my brake lines on 5 cars yesterday. Does it need to be done every 3 years ? Probably not ,but it's a piece of mind thing with me, 45 years ago had a car crash because a brake line let go ( that will do it for ya ) I also jack my cars up to get the weight off of the chassis and grease all of the fittings every oil change,I will not buy a car without grease fittings period!!
Also use nothing but synthetic oils and grease. I had a gear chip in my rear differential on the Corvette this year and with almost 350,000 miles and 34 years old the rear gears were still almost to factory spec's,Corvette place could not beleive it, also said the engine sounded and performed like a 20,000 mile engine. Had he not known me for the last 40 years he would have called me a liar.
I have never had any of my RV's or cars in a garage, and that's from doing proper maintence all of their lives.
Dario