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Great week at Lakeport on my favorite site #24. First trip out this Summer and the Oliver performed flawlessly!

I took my Oliver in for service at the highest recommended local place (I'm so far from Oliver).... and when I got home I found that they had inflated the tires to the max. This is just a reminder to check the pressures, if you've had your Oliver serviced 'elsewhere'.

Yep. Tightened all the fittings and screwed down the hold-down straps. Very strange symptoms. When the pump is sucking air, you can barely hear it. If anyone keeps getting air in the lines the first time you use your pump on a trip, check those connections.

Initially ran 50PSI in our LE2 tires for a few years, now running 45PSI without issues in our Cooper HT3 tires. All cold pressures.

Also, a TPMS will let you know right away what your pressures are!

While I feel for those that do not have this same experience, I do believe that your experience is closer to the norm. That's a great sun pic! Bill

"Casablanca" Thermostat Update: We returned home yesterday afternoon after spending 4 days on the road between DEN and ABQ. Sort of a test trip for our newly mounted MicroAir Easy touch RV T'Stat. Installation was a "breeze" (pun intended) - and like our original Dometic T'Stat, the MicroAir unit controls the Dometic "Noisemaker" AC/Heat Strip and the Atwood furnace. It's got an "away" function which keeps the internal temps over a longer "cycle-time" when not occupying the OTT - jury still out on this function. What we really like is the WiFi and BT modes, so we can monitor/control internal temps while away from Casablanca using the iPhone App. Headed to TX today and should experience much wider temp ranges than we had in CO over the weekend - will follow-up with posts during the week... "Ravel-On!"

Water systems are tricky. At home, we work on a rainwater collection system, and an 8000 gallon cistern. We spent an entire day, checking everything. Valves, pump, connections, Power. Sediment filters, etc. Blowing out possible sediment, every way. Checking check valves. It can be very frustrating. We found, on ours , a faulty float switch, which has nothing to do with the Oliver system, but I share your frustration. Every connection is tightened, and retightened. I share your pain. We both now have working systems. Please share your Oliver challenge with service, via a ticket. They need to know.

Yes, if you have lithium batteries, I'd guess so. As steve/scubarx said, there's a significant weight difference. The new electric dc/danfoss fridge is much lighter than the threeway. We all have to work it out.

We keep our Oli EII @ 55psi also. For a couple reasons. 1. I have calculated the weight for the Oliver while towing, the tongue weight, and the weight on both my front and rear axles of the truck with everything fully loaded for towing. 2. The truck uses the same psi and all I have to remember is 55 psi for all the tires. 3. I figure that at 55 psi it’s a little high for the Oliver but it allows that if one tire goes bad the other three tires still have enough strength to carry the load. If I remember correctly I did the calculations for 6500 trailer weight. Not that I am planning on driving on three tires on the Ollie I just wanted that extra safety factor so by the time I found out that a tired gone bad I’d still have time to get it parked over on the side of the road and maybe limp it to someplace where I could change it without getting someone hurt

42 to 45 psi. 50 at the very most. 80 psi is the maximum that the tire can take, it is not at all appropriate for a little trailer; running double the ideal inflation pressure will beat up the frame, hull and your personal belongings😳 Have you been finding stuff shaken up, rearranged, and or lying on the floor? Does your television fall down? BTW, Did you ever get a tire inflator? You started a thread asking about it and sort of dropped out. John Davies Spokane WA

Love the photos! Enjoy!

Amazing sunset photo!

The smoke is gone and the sky is clear at Pistolet Bay Provincial Park, it amazes me how blue the skies and waters are here in Newfoundland.

@Patriot Thank you. I love the lake too, I’m definitely a Great Lakes Girl!

School is out forever! Today was my last day of teaching, and I’m beginning my retirement tomorrow. My husband and I purchased an Elite II, and will be picking it up on June 26. What advice do you have for us on delivery day? What items are must-haves for pick up day? I should mention we are new to camping so even basic advice is appreciated! Thanks!

Beautiful site @Katjo we love lake sites! Patriot🇺🇸

We sold our Casita and bought an Elite II in Hohenwald last August. Sorry, that I haven’t updated my info.

Welcome to the forum. External links are fine, this one is interesting. Let us know how your mod works! Lots of interest in quiet ACs, Houghton, Truma and Dometic Freshjet. Mike

Hi all -- I have a different brand RV but have been following this thread because I'm experiencing some of the same humidity problems with the Houghton/RecPro A3400 that others here have had. I've seen a fairly recent video on YouTube from FloridaAmbient that discusses an additional relay to switch the fan on/off in tandem with the compressor cycles. He says it has made a "huge difference" with the interior humidity. His video is short and I gather that with his mod you only have one fan speed. He selected Low but it appears each speed has its own relay and a different speed could have been selected (this is my assumption, it's not stated in the video). My RV is 23' from snout to tail so maybe 19' of interior living space with no slides. The AC unit is about as center as it can be so I'm not concerned about having only the low speed. Once the interior is brought down to the set temperature, it pretty much runs at low anyway. My brother is an electrical engineer and I trust him to guide me through this process. I have the parts ordered and he will be visiting in mid July and will be staying in the RV. We plan to do this mod and document it will with pictures and narrative and I'll turn it into a PDF. Stay tuned. I hope it's okay with the forum guidelines to post an external link! Here is the video:

Great how we work together, isn't it? (Eye rolls aside, lol. It is what it is. How many hours of my life have I spent looking for Paul's caps, keys, glasses, etc. It's just what we do. ❤️❤️❤️ and how we roll on down the highway. ) If we can't joke about it, it just isn't "fun" anymore. Thanks for the memories. 🤗

More importantly, did @Steph and Dud B find a resolution?

Yet another excellent post for learning! That closet is where I stowed my telescoping ladder, tool box, tackle box, a portable fan, bucket, dirty laundry bag, shoes, extra peat and TP. All my clothes fit in the rear-most overhead compartment above the TV. I'll move those tools out of there. I've carried several 1-gallon jugs of water on the floor but I tucked them under the dining table, and they stayed put. I don't tow with water in the tank, and I have a composting toilet so I don't carry black water either. I do have the solar lithium batteries. What makes the starboard side heavy -- is it the appliances? So this is all new to me for consideration, the caution of keeping weight off the tongue (in the trailer, and I'm assuming ALSO in the rear-most part of the truck bed?) but ALSO not letting the tongue be too light? What? I've already started weighing my gear etc and have it on a spreadsheet, organized by where I had planned to carry it all (for ease of finding it as well as keeping tabs on my payload and overall trailer weight). Is there a recommended tutorial on this topic?

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I find this a very interesting thread, with lots of neat ideas. OTH, I am sorry you guys have to deal with this “rain” stuff. 😉 John Davies Spokane WA

Please submit a service ticket, even though you apparently fixed the oversight yourself so your pump would function as it should. Oliver needs to be advised of this obvious quality control failure. Based on my experience with Hull #1291, and review of dozens of reports like yours on this forum, Oliver's attention to detail and quality control during production is, at best, inconsistent. Very sad given the premium price charged.

Sorry to hear about your issues with your trailer. Oliver has been very good addressing our very minor issues to hull # 901. And we have been very pleased. I have no problem working and keeping and eye on the systems of our trailer and annually check all electrical and mechanical connections due to road vibrations helps feed my OCD. Have fun and safe travels.

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Being able to pop back to the Oliver while on the road, turn on the A/C and have lunch is priceless! IMG_4316.mov

I found a great use for the awning while at home! #scootermaintenance 😂

Its hard to tell from the pic above and/or the Google pics but particularly in the rain the awning should be slanted such that the rain can more easily run off and not "puddle" on the awning itself. Usually the low side of the slant would be at the end closest to the rear of the camper. Bill

Great, so I can bring all my shoes!😂😜

Well, I'm a bit ashamed to admit that I did not know, or at least remember, any of this, in regards to the multiple Oliver companies. I'm just now getting back into all of this great Oliver life style, so I guess I'm pulling my head out of my.... um, out from under a rock. 😉 Thanks for sharing this info!

When we took delivery in may 2022, Oliver told us 55 psi.

We keep our Coopers at 50. We have the AT3 not the HT3. Mike

We normally keep ours around between 55-65, 60 seems to be our sweet spot so far.

Correct. The relay just replaces the furnace control function of the thermostat control module in the Dometic AC. The blue and blue/white voltage wires to/from the furnace go to the relay contact terminals. I rewired the green and yellow conductors in the thermostat cable to route ground to the replacement thermostat and back to the relay trigger input. The red conductor is unused. (Mine only had the three) Except for connecting the new thermostat, all rewiring is done overhead and straightforward. This may not be the cheapest solution but, considering the labor rate for a tech to pull new wires, it might be. Another possible issue “could be” the thermostat contact rating. In order to direct wire it to the furnace, the minimum rating would have to be 7.5 amps @ 12 volts DC. (I’m assuming this is an LEII furnace) It might be hard to determine for residential thermostats but your tech needs to verify this rating.

Doubling up, aka running parallel conductors, is conditionally permitted only to reduce voltage drop in a circuit. It cannot be done for the purpose of increasing current carrying capacity of the wiring. There is also an issue with the type of wire not being rated for a primary circuit. I don’t believe you’ll find any certified RV tech that would install the thermostat this way. I used a solidstate latching relay when I replaced my thermostat. It has the option for a ground level input trigger and only two conductors in the original thermostat cable are required. Try suggesting this method to your tech as an alternative to rewiring.

Hi all, I am interested in swapping the dometic for the houghton (I pick up my trailer this fall, but planning ahead because the Truma will not be available) I read some of the posts about wiring in the Emerson. I called an RV tech near me and he was concerned that to put in the emerson, he would have to run new wiring, but I didn't think so. I thought it was more about doubling up some of the wiring on the existing thermostat. I just want to be able to update him as I won't be doing this myself. Can you help me explain? Thank you! Mary

My trailer had a non-standard mechanical stat for just the furnace (since I had Oliver install an Air Command AC)- it failed and I replaced it with this digital one. You will hate the mechanical one: inaccurate, hard to set to the exact right temp, unreliable (the contact points arc and then it quits working), and a really large dead band (temperature fluctuations). Give it a try, but if you start saying bad words, buy and install this one. You can theoretically adjust the dead band on the mechanical one, but it still has a whole lot of really bad features. Emerson 1E78-140 Non-Programmable Heat Only Thermostat for Single-Stage Systems John Davies Spokane WA

I just completed the change out of my Dometic unit for the Rec Pro Houghton unit. I am amazed how quiet the new unit is in comparison to the old Dometic. I did as others suggested and switched to an old school mechanical thermostat to control my propane heater. All I have to say is come on OTT get with it and start offering a better, quieter AC unit.

John, you have a more detailed oriented memory than I do! I forgot that we also carry a case (40 bottle Costco) of drinking water and case of big bottles for coffee, stakes and sledge hammer for the Clam, and at least 50 lbs of tools. Mike

I towed with a 2012 Toyota Tacoma for 6 months and about 6,000 miles. 6,500 lb and 650 lb tongue weight limit. It towed fine. I was at or over my payload limit and I had to stop for gas every 150 miles or so. Not really a pleasant towing experience. You need to check the payload capacity for a light weight vehicle (add tongue weight -600lbs plus passenger weight plus whatever you will carry in the bed and cab that will approximate your payload). Also check the size of the fuel tank. A smaller engine tow vehicle won’t get very good mileage and that can be a factor depending on where you tow. Also, hills and mountains can be a white knuckle experience with a small tow vehicle, both uphill and downhill. Uphill you’ll be spending time in the slow lane with the big rigs and downhill becomes a safety issue as you have a 6,000 lb trailer pushing down hill and around curves. Mike

Nan, Yes, GCWR means Gross Combination Weight Rating. I found this post on the Escape forum to be very helpful about the weight terms. Ken, In order to make a pdf file (or a docx or a xlsx file) able to be opened by others, you need to do two steps. First, you need to click the Select File button, identify the file, and upload it. If you do just that, then the file will not be accessible to forum users. After uploading the file, you need to click on the Insert Into Content button, to the right of the Select File button. This puts your attachment into the body of your message, and, more importantly, makes it available for other Forum users to see or to download.

What is the optimum summer tire pressure for an E-2 with cooper tires? I’ve been maintaining 80 cold

On the first night of a recent dry camping trip (using water from the fresh tank) my wife noticed a very low hum when she went to bed. I tracked it to the water pump. It wasn't the usual pump noise, it was a very soft, low vibration. I opened a faucet and found no water pressure. Closed the faucet, cycled the pump on/off and had water again with no further pump noise. Thinking about it overnight, I surmised the pump was running dry, even though we had a full tank. I suspected an air leak in the pump intake plumbing. Inspection under the bed revealed multiple loose connections on the intake plumbing side. Some very loose. I also found that 2 of the black tie down straps intended to hold the intake plumbing to the mounting board were just hanging loose off the pipes. No-one at the factory had finished the intake side of the pump plumbing before the pump assembly was installed in the trailer. This was an absolute, and obvious, QC failure since that assembly is done on a workbench before being put into a trailer shell. We have had a failure of some sort, from cosmetic to serious, on every single trip in the year we've owned this trailer. In another case, a carriage bolt was stripped and could not be tightened to spec. Even so, it bore green torque pen markings on it from the factory. It was impossible for that bolt to have passed a torque check. A loose 120v electrical splice that melted and charred also bore QC marks from the factory. None of our previous trailers had this many issues. This may be normal for pandemic-era Some-Other-Brand RVs but is absolutely not what we expected from an Oliver. Now that RV sales have slumped, I hope OTT is taking the time to be more careful assembling new units.

We had several loose water connections. Having the pump running unnecessarily or low water pressure gave them away. Not too happy about that. Much bigger unresolved problem with brake system. Our only nearby RV place is slammed and we are still waiting to find out what it is. It could be a combo of our controller on the truck not working, and an electrical problem on one side of the trailer. Already missed one planned trip.

@ScubaRx thats exactly what happened. When it went over it broke the hinge pin on the bulldog so it was just the chains keeping me attached to it. It slid maybe 40-50 feet on its side as it pulled me sideways. the crack in the AC housing and missing TV antenna were from where it hit one of those black plastic poles on the side of the road.