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The "little yellow tester" https://www.amazon.com/Electrical-Receptacle-Outlet-Ground-Tester/dp/B0012DHVQ0/ref=sr_1_36?ie=UTF8&qid=1528641968&sr=8-36&keywords=circuit+tester

I've been researching ways that folks have been able to run their air conditioners when boondocking--using the quick start, different generators, etc. It dawned on me that there might be another solution to staying cool in the Ollie: an evaporative cooler, something similar to what we use in our home here in the Arizona high desert. I have been reluctant to spend the money on the modifications and extra equipment that might add even more noise to the environment than the already noisy air conditioner. I know that evaporative coolers would not be a good solution for those camping east of the the Rockies with all of that humidity, but I know that we would rarely have that problem out here in the West. (The company says its product is good up to 75% RH.) This is the only system I have found so far that just might be a solution: http://www.turbokool.net/category-s/106.htm The company says it could be used in conjunction with an air conditioner, but with our solar panels, there might not be enough real estate on the roof of our Elite II to install an additional unit like this, so we might have to replace the existing air conditioner with this unit if we decided to purchase and install it. I haven't researched this extensively and haven't read any independent reviews on the product, but I thought that I would see what folks on this forum might have to say about the possibility of replacing or supplementing the Oliver air conditioner with this unit.

Looks great! Agree with Don, it’s good to have a family and not just a couple of old folks!! ? We’re on our way to Colorado now.... Mike

Nice to see a family in an Ollie! Most owners are couples with no school-age children. Some solo campers.

If you have TPMS you can screw a sender onto the spare, but that doesn’t help if you want to actually gauge it or add air. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006O2S8M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I have used these for decades in cars with a spare buried under the trunk. They need changing after maybe five or six years since they tend to develop a slow leak through aging of the rubber. I don’t use a tire cover, but this will be equally useful if you do, you can route it down into the rear compartment and check pressure by dropping the bumper. Or leave it poking out from under the cover down low at the top of the bumper area. I secured it to the wheel hardware, and added my TPMS sender onto the end. You still need to take a look under the cover routinely, to make sure all is well. At around 40 inches it is a little long for my setup, if there is a shorter one, please post a link. John Davies Spokane WA

Normal, probably; but acceptable? These bits of plastic can lodge anywhere in your plumbing lines, and in places that can be cleared only with great difficulty. I suspect that this is why some people complain about slow fresh tank drains. Mine just dribbles. It wouldn't take much for Oliver to add a step in production to vacuum out the tanks.

Yellowstone can be tough even in the off season from what I’ve been told, so it was the only place we had reservations ahead of time this trip. In hindsight I wish we’d only made reservations for one night and then moved to a less developed campground, but that wisdom comes with experience I guess. It’s amazing what a few weeks can make in Yellowstone. Mid May we only found crowds at the major stopping points and very little traffic but when we went back through on our way to Teton two weeks later it was bumper to bumper all the way around. Not planning everything ahead gives you flexibility to adjust your trip as needed. We’d originally plannned to spend at least a week in the Dakotas this trip but the early hot weather meant 90 degree days there so we went north to Canada instead and enjoyed low 70’s and no crowds from Banff up to Jasper.

That is over half an inch diameter, way too large and heavy, you may be over estimating the hardware required. Why not just use one or two small (1/4 inch) clevis pins? Or if you want fancy and stainless, .... https://www.amazon.com/VTurboWay-Release-diameter-Stainless-Hardware/dp/B07CWC6V73/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1528587602&sr=8-7&keywords=Clevis+pin+with+clip+1%2F4+inch John Davies Spokane WA

On the way back from the factory a few months ago, I had a truck pull up next to me and start honking his horn. I looked over and the passenger had his head out the window yelling 'what kind of trailer is that?'. Really? You want to have this conversation at 70mph? To make it worse, I was on the phone with a client at the time trying to get some work done while I was driving.

I was greasing and checking the Easy-Flex suspension at 6000 miles. The shackle nuts were fine, but several of the u-bolt nuts were a fraction loose, and two on the same bolt were 1/4turn loose. I checked these at 3000 and found the same situation, tho I can’t recall if the same nuts were loose both times. These should be checked every 3000 miles until they no longer require tightening, then you could go to a longer interval. John Davies Spokane WA