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Bubble net feeding. The humpback whale blows a ring of air bubbles to confine a school of fish, then surfaces though them with gaping jaw. You can see the ring. How cool! John Davies Spokane WA

We’ve never used the fresh tank for drinking - couldn’t take the taste of plastic. So we do what Mike does and carry bottled water for drinking. Usually the gallon containers from wal mart or Costco, or Evian from target if it’s on sale. We carry two Reliant water containers in the truck with us, for refilling the fresh tank. With our water saving mods, we can go an easy week without refilling. I'm waiting for someone to do the stainless fresh tank refit on their Ollie.

Again, I'd say it's lawyerspeak . But,, I haven't used tank water for drinking in 40 years. We carry water from home in five gallon containers (refillable, if we find good water), or buy gallons at Walmart, aldi, or lidl.

Likewise we don't drink water from the fresh water holding tank, for one it taste terrible with the plastic "infusion" and secondly the chances of bacterial growth are just not worth it. The fresh tank is used only for washing dishes and people. We do carry two BPA free 5 gallon jugs filled with our house water, then use a Brita water filter pitcher in conjunction with the 5 gallon jugs for drinking and cooking. 10 gallons of water will last nearly two weeks used strictly for drinking and cooking. Those containers are stored in the pick up truck bed while traveling. In my estimation anyone drinking regularly from a fresh water holding tank is asking for trouble, sooner or later.

I'd love to have an uncut panel, like Overland, for our fridge, but we did the retrofit gig. Last Tuesday, we had over 12 inches of rain, in 28 hours. I had some tiny seepage from the upper fridge vent (my fault, rally, still just using double layer of visqueen clamped into the fridge vent panel. I need to work on that. ) Rains were truly torrential. In a somewhat dry break, I duct taped around the upper fridge panel. Not sure anything could have withstood that rainfall, but our Oliver was nice and dry. Our tiny murmuring creek, down the hill, became a roaring stream and a waterfall, in a very short time. 20210817_152658.mp4

There is also an Elite II owner that is here on the Forum from time to time that has designed and installed window awnings on their Oliver. Perhaps a PM to "Cheryl" might work for information. Good Luck. Bill

I too do not drink from the fresh water tank and bring my own. My experience with different water sources (aside from plastic taste) is that most campground water tastes terrible! Mineral content and rust come to mind. At the NF campground I managed the water was tested every day for public safety however it always had a tinge of yellow from the two sixty year old 50K gallon tanks and wasn't the best tasting. This begs the question about cleaning out the fresh water tank. Obviously, sediment settles. How on earth is one to clean the bottom of the Oliver tank? I have first hand experience with a clogged fresh water outlet. The black gunky grime/algae from the stagnant water clogged the outlet, the bathroom faucet and the pre-filter! I used a combination of bleach first then vinegar to get things rolling again...but I hate the idea that there is rust and sand sitting flat against the bottom of the tank. On my Casita, I added a waterproof marine deck plate that allowed me to completely wipe out and clean the tank at the end of a season. There was ALWAYS a film of rust no matter what sources or pre-water filtration I used attached to my fill hose. I hope that the tank in the Oliver doesn't ever need replacing due to a build up of sediment. I can't even fathom how it would be done. I will continue to do a fresh water vinegar treatment every year and try not to lie awake at night about sediment. I don't intend to ever drink out of the tank unless I'm dying from thirst.

We purchased the antifreeze kit with the trailer. Thanks for the tip!

From what I’ve read Coleman propane stoves operate off about 15 psi. The low pressure from your trailer quick connect is about 10 inches WC which is about 0.36 psi.

Interstate 40 West bound just west of Knoxville, TN was an Elite II with TN orange strip. Bill

You can go with two standard Honda 2200's and not purchase the companion unit with the 30 amp 3 prong plug if you purchase the Hutch Mt power grip parallel cable. I had them build a custom extra long version with a marine end that threads into my trailer power input. Very clean and simple. You have the option to run one or two 2200's with this cable. One cable gets it done if you have them build you one with the marine end that matches your trailer's input. Many ways to get the job done. This system works very well. My generators live on the end of my bedside. I drop my tailgate, open the back hatch of the A.R.E. truck canopy, pull out the bedside about two feet, plug in the cables, tap into the front external LP quick release and we have power from one or two 2200's as needed. https://www.hutchmountain.com/collections/amazing-generator-accessories/products/power-grip-parallel-cable-w-handle-30amp-breaker https://www.hutchmountain.com/products/power-grip-parallel-cable-w-handle-30amp-breaker

Ah, just grab a saw, close your eyes, and cut whatever feels right. What could go wrong?

Thanks Overland! I’m not sure I’m up for arthroscopic surgery on the black tank. Mossey

Sams club might possibly order them for you, depending on your local area. They show them on their website. My local Costco couldn't order them for me. Yes, I'd want the better sidewalls of the atx, also.

If they are in your area, Discount Tire can order the AT3 XLTs and you probably will not find a better price. I have not driven in rain yet with mine. But I don’t see why they would not do well. John Davies Spokane WA

I know this response is late to the party, but I don't know of a single Oliver employee that owns an Oliver TT. There are several trailers that are owned by the corporation.

The back screen attaches differently than the larger side screens. The back screen has four little clips that attach to the window frame. It doesn’t really slide. The side screens have a compressible piece that fits inside the window track allowing it to slide. You can see the difference if you look closely at how they attach. I remove and clean the screens a few times a year while I clean out the window tracks, you get used to taking them out and putting them back in. Mike

Doesn't bother me at all. I don't drink water from the tank, and haven't, since the 70s. Using smaller containers, usually from home, for fresh water for drinking and cooking helps conserve fresh supply for cleaning and showering, anyway. I'm sure it "are" lawyerese, but I know few people who use the tank for drinking water, anyway.

Needless to say, she was devastated. While departing yesterday morning, she was helping me gather up some of the LEGO blocks from under the stabilizer jacks. Ten minutes later we were leaving the dump station, after emptying the grey tank and she exclaimed “I’ve lost my phone! Don’t move the trailer!!!” She was afraid it might be underneath and did not want me to drive over it. She hiked back to our site and found it. Of course, I had driven over it while leaving. It had an Otterbox Commuter case so it wasn’t destroyed, but it was face down, so the super hard Apple glass was driven down into the sharp gravel. Tears and a hug followed, it is not even paid off yet. It still functions, sort of, but the screen won’t come alive and obviously she can’t call out or use any touch functions. She does’t use Siri, so she can’t just tell it to do things. The alarm just came on at 5:30 AM and she had to let that run until it self cancelled. This happened in Prince Rupert BC, on the west coast half way up BC; there are no great resources there to get a phone repaired or replaced with a Verizon one, since all the Canadian carriers are different. We are now in nearby Terrace BC (sizable enough to have a shopping center and a Walmart Super Center) at a municipal CG (quite nice, 4 stars) waiting for “Broken Glass” to open at 10:00AM. It’s an ex-phone store manager who runs a shop from his home and sells used phones. We are hoping he can switch the Verizon SIM chip to a cheap refurbished Apple or Android phone to get her up and running with her old number. I doubt if he has the parts to repair hers while we wait…. Maybe it would, after all, be prudent to have a cheap disposable Burner Phone with a Canadian calling plan when venturing into this country, if only as a backup. We might end up with one. Update to follow, but we are headed north on the Cassier Hwy to Whitehorse, so it’s going to be “cell phone desert” for quite a few days. OTH we had a spectacular whale watching trip Sunday, in glorious sunny weather. A few of those pics of the stunning scenery and closeups of broaching whales are still on her phone and were NOT yet uploaded to iCloud because the WiFi was terrible at the CG and we only have 500MB of cellular data daily through Verizon. but she was mostly using her Nikon DSLR, so all is not lost, unless I drive “Mouse” over that too😳😳😳 John Davies Spokane WA

The handle to mine is on the side. I thought I was getting the one with the center handle but I got the old version instead; which sucked since the door swung the wrong way and had to be replaced.

The water pump comes on in response to the change in water pressure when a faucet is turn on. Since when connected to city water you would normally have the power to the water pump turned off water is supplied from the city's water pressure. However, IF you are connected to city water AND you have water in the tank AND the water pump is on, you're still going to get water when a faucet is turned on. You can tell which system is active by listening for the water pump to kick on. But, doing so may cause a disruption in the space-time continuum, make the tides reverse and start a chain reaction. I'm not sure.....

How could anyone be dumb enough to drive over a Nikon? Or, better yet, two of them at the same time.