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This week I added the much needed (by me) water accumulator tank to the outlet of of the water pump. The following may be helpful to you if you want to add to your trailer. FYI, the factory has added this to all the 2018 trailers as I understand. I decided to not only add the accumulator tank, but also utilize the silence kit which adds 2 ea. 30" hoses. The reason was to make the mounting more flexible. With the hoses, I would not be limited where I mounted the tank. (You may be able to find suitable hoses locally, but having everything arrive at my doorstep has it's benefits.) Parts I used: 1. ea SHURflo 182-200 Accumulator tank. $42.11 on Amazon today 1. ea SHURflo 94-591-01 Silencing kit. $25.94 on Amazon 1. Remove the 4 mounting screws in the pump base. 2. Turn off water pump, open the sink valve to relieve the water pressure, and remove the short white hose between the output port of the pump and the valves to the right of the pump. Have towels available because the faucet is higher than the pump so some water will drain out when you break the connections. 3. Before I remounted the pump, I tested several locations for the tank. I chose to move the pump as far to the left, allowing the tank to be mounted to the right. I dressed the hoses around trying to minimize any sharp turns and minimize the hoses hitting other objects. 4. After you have all the connections secure, test the setup, and if you're satisfied, mount the pump and tank. This modification made my trailer much more pleasant to be in. At times the pump vibrations would make the plumbing lines vibrate against the back of the cabinets and sounded like a jack hammer. The tank is pre-charged to about 30 psi. As you can see from my picture, I placed the tank so I could access the air connection should I need to adjust the pressure.

I found a typo error in the Campfire Cooking Recipe. It is not the Pot Roast - Instead it is for Dutch Oven Campfire Lasagna. My apologies for the mixup! Thank you! Jason

Group name yet to be determined by the membership. Voluntary listing, Send Your info to a moderator, by private message, to post in this thread,( a simple copy & paste operation) as it will be locked to prevent accidental loss of the listings. The last four digits of your VIN (vehicle identification number) are your Hull Number and will be your Member Number. This will facilitate following the history of each Oliver as it passes from one owner to another. Should you own more than one Oliver list it as: Currently own Hull # 003, have owned in the past, Hull #002. One cool thing about using the Hull number is that you can readily determine who owns the one made immediately before and after yours was manufactured. This gives you someone to chat with about how things operate best. Since the newest of technologies is in the latest Olivers made, those manufactured nearest to yours will operate more similarly. EXAMPLE: Larry & Betty Harmon mountainborn & Butcherknife 207 Polk Road 273 Vandervoort, Ar. 71972 479-243-5450 479-216-2504 mountainborn@gmail.com Hull Number 0003

I'd be interested if access to the information was restricted to verified Oliver owners who have also opted in to sharing their information. I'm not posting my name, address, and phone number publicly on the Internet. I can think of several ways to skin that cat from a technical point of view. There are also legal considerations when compiling and storing personally identifiable information (PII), particularly Californians, that dissuade me from volunteering to create such a database myself. (I do this kind of thing for a living and am all too aware of the potential pitfalls :-) )

John - I really don't know exactly where to start. But, I'll through out some ideas for you to consider. No, I've never stayed at that State Park, so no help there. Assuming that the Black Canyon you are referring to is the Gunnison - There is a fairly decent WalMart in Gunnison - its on your right as you take the road headed north of the center of town. There is a very nice NFS campground called "one mile" if you head towards the Taylor Res. There is plenty of free camping up near the Reservoir and towards the little town of Tin Cup. Speaking of which - Tin Cup is worth the drive in your TV. The problem with this area is the ATV's which are every where. If it is on your route and you go through Dubois, WY there are a couple of places there of interest. Just to the south-east of Dubois there is a BLM boondocking spot. It is right on a lake and there are OK pit toilets. If you head north out of town (towards Horse Creek) there is a NFS camp about seven miles up that road. It is right on Horse Creek and they have pit toilets and a hand pump for water. From there you can head up to "Double Cabin" (another twenty miles up the road). There are boondocking sites up there and another NFS camp ground, but, I'd stay at Horse Creek and drive the TV up instead of hauling your Oliver. Another place to stay or at least stop is West of Dubois. It is a NFS camp on the left near the summit of the mountain. There are electric/water sites here in addition to "no-services" sites. Decent pit toilets are also available. If you simply stop here, there is a very nice water fall to see. On the right side of the road just before you get to this camp there is a road to (I think) Brook's Lake. There are numerous boondocking spots along this road. If you want more detail on this area just PM me. Once up towards Cody, one of my favorite NFS camp grounds is west of Cody by about 20 miles or so - Rex Hale. They have a very few sites that have water/electric but you would need to reserve those well in advance. The other sites - some near the river - are decent and all have access to pit toilets. Note that the East entrance to Yellowstone is just down the road one way with Cody the other way. Elk Creek camp just to the east of Rex Hale is another possibility but it is much smaller. There is a nice hiking trail out of Elk Creek and you can take your TV on a bit of a drive out of there also (I don't know how far that jeep trail goes though). Bill