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Here's a Dexter Suspension Kit upgrade with bronze bushings and wet pins on the single axle 2015 Legacy Elite. Old parts removed, less a few nylon bushings. The pins and bushings removed were in good condition. Removed the straight grease fittings and installed 45 degree fittings: Installing bronze bushings: One hand grease gun stand:

Bill, that is simply brilliant. I hate wrestling with a grease gun while lying on my back under a vehicle. I eventually bought a high end pneumatic gun and am very pleased, but that ties me to a compressed air source. Note to grease gun shoppers. Do not cheap out here - buy an expensive model. The really cheap ones are frustrating, poorly assembled and designed, leak prone, will quit working in the middle of a job, and they make you say bad words. John Davies Spokane WA

Wikipedia U. S. Route 20- Plan a 2017 Oliver Adventure. Make NO reservations. Make NO plans other than if a place catches your interest... make those Custer Decisions that are immediate and totally... well, unplanned. YOU and your family will find this an adventure of a lifetime. "The '0' (zero) in an east-west United States Highway indicates that Highway 20 is a coast to coast route. It spans 3,365 miles and is the longest road in the United States." If you are adventuress and want to see the RURAL USA in its finest representation.... US Highway 20 is it. This is the very unknown 'Gateway to Yellowstone Park. Make detours to the Black Hills from Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Make detours to Northeast Wyoming to Devil's Tower, around the Black Hills to Sturgis, South Dakota before, during or after the Bike Rally. Caverns. Hot Springs. Mount Rushmore. Crazy Horse Monument. Gold Mines. The Buffalo Bill Museum at Cody, Wyoming and stay to the west at the Buffalo Bill Reservoir where you can camp... very reasonably. Make detours to Montana... The Custer Battlefield aka Battle of the Little Big Horn aka Custer's Last Stand. Headwaters of the Missouri River. The Yellowstone River and camp along the sandy beaches. Butte and its HUGE open pit copper mine that is 'green and blue' water sloshing around in it. Pan sapphires near Phillipsburg, Montana for a small fee. The Wisdom River south of Wisdom Montana and Boondocking in the National Forest... Idaho... my goodness. Just looking into the canyon cut by the Columbia River, Snake River... should be enough. The giant Potato Heads of Idaho... may be observed. Rank up there with the Easter Island Moai Statues. Well... not exactly as giant Potato Heads have not yet been discovered in Idaho... but you can look for them. Your Oliver should not be gathering dust from being parked. Take two weeks and be spontaneous. This is suppose to be an Adventure... not a RV Park $35 to $75 experience. Learn how to fill your fresh water tank on the road. Find dump stations. Visit each State's Welcome centers... and many have FREE dump stations or can point the direction to where they can be found. Do not follow the 99% of RV's and Trailers doing the same old stuff. Oliver's and their owners are... SPECIAL. A minority among true Boondocking capable Travel Trailers and should be used as one. Any fool can make reservations and camp with a hundred other trailers. Be proud of your Oliver and you will... once you get the hang of Base Camping and being spontaneous. If you can go six days Base Camped at minimal cost and relax at a full service RV Park... the money saved is WHY you have an outfitted trailer to begin with. Unless I am unique among trailer owners... which I hope not. Highway 66....? Not even close to a US Highway 20, which most is two lane and rural once in Nebraska. Although Highway 66 is more developed until you get into the Southwestern US... Highway 20 hits the small towns whose occupants are actually 'happy to see you'.

My first visit to Fort Robinson, Nebraska was in 1965. I was 15 years old and invited to go 'Fossil Hunting' in the Badlands of Western Nebraska. My friends had a pop up camper and drove from Independence, Missouri to Fort Robinson. Although since the 1980's the Ranchers I met and knew in the Badlands have died and their ranches have changed hands several times. In the 1960's to early 1980's there were not many fossil collectors coming to this sparsely populated panhandle of west Nebraska. I knew the local Ranchers, each by name. I was given free roaming rights for many years. Even the Mayor of Crawford, also an avid artifact and fossil collector invited me to stay at their home when I came as a 16 year old... with a 1956 VW. For an independent teenager who loved collecting fossils... wouldn't it been even more wonderful in a 23 foot Oliver!!!!! Sioux County and Dawes County, Nebraska. These are the same age as the Badlands National Monument of western South Dakota. Give or take a million years... 35,000,000 year old white clay and ash deposits. The area was humid, meandering rivers and a wide variety of animals. Saber Toothed cats, Rhinos, Horse, Deer, Rabbit, Mice, Moles, Tortoise, Pond Turtles, Birds, Snakes, Lizards and on. Their remains are still washing out of these same Badlands. The only areas that you can actually hunt these fossils is by paying a Ranch to collect. I suspect that today all of the major Ranches have leased collecting to professional dealers. BUT... Toadstool Park is open to those who want to wander these Badlands, but prohibit your picking anything up that is washing out. The main attraction for most is Fort Robinson State Park. They have wonderful tent and RV Trailer sites at reasonable prices. www.outdoornebraska.org has the details and when facilities open and close for the Season. A very nice restaurant. Melodrama in the Summers... making pottery, painting classes. For kids... turn them loose and they have unlimited recreation options. This is a 'destination campsite' with everything... yet reasonable prices! Fort Robinson's attractions are an Olympic swimming pool, Horse back rides into the bluffs, a very intact Cavalry Fort where Crazy Horse was murdered in 1877 and a monument marks the spot... right next to the camping areas. Tennis. A museum. The Black Hills are close enough where you can leave your trailer and drive to see Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Monument, among other things worth visiting... like Deadwood and Lead. A busy 'day trip'! There is some National Grassland camping to the north and west of Toadstool. The gate will say 'Please Close Gate'. These areas are leased to ranchers for grazing, but they are Public Lands. You would be camped right in the middle of these Badlands. Wandering around them is a lot of fun. Can an Oliver do all of this? Your Oliver can do all of this and MORE... You are about 50 miles east of the Wyoming border and your camping trip can extend all the way to... Yellowstone Park and, beyond. I am including some photographs taken June 1, 2006. Just so you have a sense of what the area is like.

And I always thought that those were good words - since I seem to say them soooo much. Bill p.s. I agree, nice design on the one handed stand.