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The fiberglass shell can be manufactured in any color and, in fact, Oliver made a few colored units in the early days. Changing the gelcoat color after the fact would be difficult, if not impossible. However, some people have put wraps on their Olivers, some of which are really cool. A much better option if you want to change the color.

Casita is offering new 2-tone models - the white upper hull looks cool with the light gray lower hull, IMO.... As noted earlier, there is always the "wrap" option which could have unlimited variations for an owner.

A few days ago we confirmed our prepaid reservation with TPWD and they gave us a link to print our camping passes. Our vehicle info is in our signature line. Texas plates are RKY2365 & B565011 for our TV and trailer respectively. We plan on making a pot of real south Texas chili (no beans) on Monday afternoon to share with the group at site 68. Nothing against beans, but they deserve their own pot.

Fiberglass can be painted beautifully. Look at the last 70 years of Corvettes. I’d have it professionally done. All three of the colored shells shown above were painted. Oliver never used a colored gel coat.

Thanks David, Springs are replaced, but 1 of my 2 1/2 month old Monroe shocks was blown (I replaced all 4 in July). Thanks to Scuba Rx my lifetime guaranteed shock from O'Reilly was ordered at the next stop and I replaced it...no problem).

I'll watch for it - it hasn't come in on my email yet. thanks for the info

Email sent. Burn ban in Burnet. For non-Texans, Burnet is pronounced BURN-it.

The State Park has requested that I provide an Occupant List which includes the following information: Occupant & Site Number: (I filled this one item out already) No. of Occupants ( I also filled this one out) TV Plate #_________________ Vehicle Make/Model ________________ Trailer Plate #________________ Make/Model____OLIVER_________ The more info I can provide them, the faster the check-in If you would rather email me this information: my email is dgerould53@gmail.com. I am suppose to email the info back to TPWD. Please also note: Currently in Burnet County there is a Burn Ban and with this in place Inks Lake State Park is also under Burn Ban which prohibits fires/charcoal/ash producing devices. Essentially only propane/electric devices are the only cooking devices allowed in the park at this time.

We spent 3 days and nights in Wonderful Ruidoso NM! They had bad fires and floods early summer and the village is still working cleanup efforts. Still an amazing beautiful place, wildlife walking around feeding on grass in town. Ruidoso is one of the true gems of New Mexico! We wrote earlier re the “White Mountains.” The area surrounding Ruidoso also uses this name: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/lincoln/recarea/?recid=78583 Last March we met a fun couple at a public Pickleball court while camping at Casa Grande AZ. They invited us and we took them up on this visit. Great hosts showed us around town, made us dinner, bought us dinner out (we tried to pay)! New BFFs and we played PBall all 3 days with a great group of locals and Texans that frequent this resort town. We stayed Midtown Mountain RV Park right in the village. We are often Boondocking and there’s good campsites everywhere but for 3 days wanted to be close to everything! https://midtownmountaincampground.com/ They had some sort of LED lighting system that made all the light speckles in the photo. Nice quiet place for being in town, good bathrooms, friendly owner. Elk and wild/feral horses in town, bear a mountain lions in the surrounding hills! We will come back often! IMG_3822.mov

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Concur, 100%, brother!

Lew owner of Alcan Springs gladly tossed the Dexter China 🇨🇳 made springs in the junk scrap metal pile. Glad you got scheduled John! You will never need to think about leaf springs again. 👍🏻🇺🇸

Starlink Mini Dish Open Source info - This compact, portable kit includes a built-in router that supports 2.4 and 5GHz bands, 802.11ax, and 3x3 MIMO. It also has an Ethernet port for connecting wired devices. Based on our experience we see no other reason to mod our Oliver with any other comm now having used our SL mini on a 48 day trip through 14 states. We won’t leave home without it. At the extraordinary rocket powered pace that Elon and SpaceX are deploying more satellites, SL will rule the day in comm. We are considering a SL home dish based how much we liked our mini on this last trip. Just plug it in to a power source with no obstructions and your on line.

After our Oliver has been parked for a long, hotter than average, summer, we are finally on a trip. Of course there has been a lot of worry re this subject. I noticed while driving a simple way to know whether your leaf springs are OK. Check your rear view mirror and note the horizontal line of the tailgate is parallel to the line on the Oliver where the hulls are attached. When a leaf breaks you will see one side lower, an angle instead of parallel lines! If a street side leaf had broken, you could not easily tell from the entry steps.

Re the 30# propane tanks vis-a-vis the Elite. The Elite will not carry the 30# tanks in the factory front mounting location. They also are not an option on the Elite

I am currently acting as the Service Director overseeing the service department & technical support. Jason B. & Mike will be handling more of the daily activities while I will be putting a bit more time in traveling to our dealer partners assisting with Sales & Service training. I would say 75% of the time I will still be here onsite working with Rodney in sales & Jason B & Mike in service.

I took delivery of Hull #1494 on 8/30/24 from B&B RV in Denver. I drove it to the Black Hills of South Dakota and am enjoying the trailer!

TV Plate # RYJ-9872 Trailer Plate # B207312 Plates are from Texas Site #076

2018 GMC Canyon with 4WD 3.6L gas crew cab carrying 2 adults and a 60 LB dog. The Canyon has a 6000 LB GCVW rating and will tow 7000 LBS. It can haul a payload around 1500 LBS. Currently I am looking at the Champion 2500 watt dual fuel generator and staying with the 20 LB propane tanks. If weight allows I can always carry an extra propane tank in the TV.

Yes you can, but it will not charge correctly and fully unless it has a LiFePO4 setting. Yes, for now do it, being careful to connect positive to +tive cables, negative to… The other concern is how many amps is your charger rated. Many are only 10A. To fully charge 640 AH Lithionics that are at 50% SOC with a 10A charger will take 32 hours. Leave it connected overnight. An OK short-term fix until you get your Xantrex 3000 working!

Welcome to the family, Joey! Get ready for many wonderful adventures ahead.

I do have two red auto ramps. I wonder how hard it would be to hook up using those to get the hitch up that high. It would be easy to use those to unhook though. Maybe reworking the gravel pad to make it more level, just thinking outloud. John

As a general rule, I wouldn’t like that much jack extension, but when I am camping I will except less than favorable conditions. Your scenario seems to be a long term condition, so I would find a solution to minimize the jack extension. A thought that comes to mind is to build 2 ramps out of different lengths of 2x6 or 2x8 boards and back the tow vehicle onto the ramps which will raise the tongue and create room for more wood under the jack pad Mossey

I don’t think 12” is too far. I try to keep all three of mine at 6” or less. Sometimes more, depending on the site slope.

Welcome to the OTT Family, Jason B.! Just curious, since you've been onboard (likely drinking Oliver information from a 3" water hose) have you had time to scan the OTT Owners Forum? Cheers!

Starlink Mini power cord storage solution. On our recent long trip I decided I needed to come with a solution to store our Starlink Mini power cord when we are traveling. After a deep dive, I ordered this reel and it will hold the entire 50’ SL mini power cord nice and neat. Winding up the power cord by hand each time was time consuming and usually it ended up looking like a rat nest. This musicians cord reel should be easier for deployment of the power cord as well as retracting when packing up our SL mini. Everything SL mini packs up nicely in our HF 3800 hard side storage case. I ordered a second reel for our spare SL mini power cord. Happy Camping from Hull #634 XPLOR https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WYCR42L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

@Wayfinder here is a pic of my shunt and bus bar install. Sorry for crude labeling. On the road using my iPad. The shunt lugs include the inverter negative, batt ground, and solar negative and a 4/0 jumper.

Welcome, Jason B. So, Jason Essary, you are now Technical support? Service? Head of both, as i would guess?

Welcome Jason B! Hull# 634 XPLOR

WELCOME Jason! We look forward to working with you and good luck in your new position!

Welcome, Jason!

2021 F350 SRW Diesel 2022 Oliver Legacy Elite II - Hull #1014 While traveling through Montana, rolling up to a stop light I decided to check my trailer brakes so I reached down and grabbed the controller and gently squeezed. To my surprise, nothing happened then I received a dash notification stating "trailer disconnected"! That will make you look behind you for sure. All good, trailer was still there. I tried it numerous on the rest of our trip, I would get the same notification. So, Wednesday I began looking into the issue. I heard there was some software issues with Ford and the brake controller but that was 2020 models. I saw somewhat of a wiring diagram in someone's post so I reached out to Oliver for a diagram. Mike said he didn't have one. So, to keep my man card I reached out to a Chris Scarff. I knew he had a similar problem. Unfortunately, our trailers wiring was different so that meant I had to do it the hard way and follow the trail of 12 volts. Without a diagram. With junction boxes below the bathroom sink. With wiring harnesses between the hulls. 😓 Although I am enjoying telling this story, I will cut to the chase. Someone at Oliver had used a solder connector, or at least one side of it, to connect 4 wires. The blue brake wire to the two blue wires that go outside the trailer and a red wire that I am assuming is the power for the emergency disconnect. So, if you are having a braking issue, check under the drivers side bed for a connector problem. I reported this to Mike and hopefully this is a one off, but you never know. I must admit the idea is kinda genius in a lazy couch potato kind of way. But not recommended! On a positive note, the trailer didn't push my truck at all, even in the mountains I didn't notice it. Another positive for bigger trucks than needed...until you do. Had I not pushed the brake controller I would have never known.

Our 7-Pin connection failed us last year. Art and I replaced it with one that has LED indicators for each of the wires heading back. Worth the extra few $ in my opinion. We check the trailer brakes with the manual trailer actuator every time we start out our day. A good idea to know if you have trailer brakes before leaving the camp site. Twice in 7 seasons we circled back to our camp site and worked the issue. Sort of like a "Don't Leave Home" without brakes idea. GJ

Went into Greer yesterday. Reason we chose this campsite is it’s on the same road only 3 miles to this small town, pop 52! Had a beer and wurst at the Edelweiss Resort for lunch. Was thinking to have dinner at the locally famous Molly Butler lodge but as we walked in to check it out we overheard the hostess say they only had reservations available after 8PM. Decided on steaks at the campsite with Cobbler for desert, nice! We’ll be back again, since this slice of heaven is only 4 hours from home. Need to checkout Hannigan Meadows that @MAX Burner has mentioned, also the next time! After lunch I took a hike along a cattle path down Benny creek, up the dam and to the lake and back. Leaving the White Mountains today, and on to central New Mexico.

If our trailer brakes did not test working positive when leaving a campsite, I would certainly fix the issue prior to any highway travel. Hope you were not in western Montana! Yes, the big F350 can stop itself and a 7K LB trailer, but not the issue. If the road gets slippery or some gravel, or an odd angle on a downhill slope, the trailer can easily jackknife w/o brakes. Then there are legal issues in you knowingly driving on US highways with faulty equipment required by law. Trailer brakes are required by law for 7K+ trailers.

You are very kind. As a retired attorney whose litigation practice included defense of auto claims involving life-altering catastrophic injuries, I am not so generous. Cutting corners with a critical safety system, like legally-mandated trailer brakes, is not "genius;" it is remarkably stupid and grossly negligent. Given this discovery of such sloppy work, Oliver would be well advised to verify the efficacy of trailer brakes on each Elite II before they allow it to leave the factory.

There have been other posts on trailer brakes disconnecting. What happened to me, and others, is that the brake wires in the axle frayed and shorted out against the metal axle, a Dexter issue. We pulled the wires and rerouted new wires on the outside of the axle, problem solved. Oliver service is aware of this issue, they looked at my solution last time I was there. Ours also failed in Colorado, so I was also happy to have a big truck with a big diesel engine. Mike

@Kraig My wife and I just completed one of our bucket list 7400 mile, 48 day trips out west camping and touring through CO, UT, ID, WY, MT, NB. I can say without any hesitation we were so glad to have the comfort, safety and cargo capacity of our 1 ton diesel F350. Ford nailed it with their diesel engine brake on the 10 speed 6.7 liter power plant. It sure came in handy on steep mountain passes like Wolf Creek and Teton Pass just to name a few. Good on you for checking your brake controller and identifying the issue. Thanks for passing this info forward. Safe Travels!

Sloppy work by OTT for sure. Like you said, good thing you have the big truck. (I always check my brakes as I pull out of a location after hitching up.)

See you there. Moderators of the Forum just want to make sure everyone that would want to attend have the opportunity to do so. There are many new owners that may not have realized there is a Rally they can attend this year.

99.999% probability that they are of chinese origin with steel from a ‘59 Buick. So on the bright side they may in fact be made of mostly USA steel. 🤪

I'm BACK Thanks to everyone for your thoughts and prayers - especially those that were specific to me and my family. We never lost power, satellite TV, or water/sewer in my sub-division. We had several trees down that blocked the roads into/out of our home but our City workers pushed those aside fairly early after the rain stopped and then my wife and I cleared the 95% of the mess up until I ran out of gas for the chainsaw. However, even though (as far as I know) the small town where I live "only" had relatively little damage, the storm had major effects on many areas around the entire Western North Carolina, north Georgia, and Tennessee. Specifically, the small town of Chimney Rock is basically gone. I don't mean damaged, I mean it is literally gone. There are highways that are gone, bridges gone, and, of course, buildings that are gone. I've heard varying numbers of deaths due to the storm but there are still areas that have not been visited because there is simply no way to get to them other than helicopter fly overs. Fortunately, these types of storms are not "normal" for us. Certainly THAT is good news. But, the bad news is that our infrastructure is not prepared for this type of thing. Also, our personal and governmental structure is basically not prepared. Curfews have been place since early on and I've not traveled so that the people, equipment and supplies that are needed can more easily get to where it is really needed. However, what little I've personally observed is amazing. We did get cell and land line phones back yesterday and just this morning slow internet is available. My wife went out early this morning in the hopes of getting some fresh fruit and milk. It took longer than "normal" but she returned with those supplies. Only one grocery store had those things in stock though and of the three stores she stopped into only one was accepting limited credit card payments. Apparently the local gas stations have received fresh supplies of gas but there are still long lines to get it. I'm guessing that by Friday things should be getting back closer to "normal". Unfortunately, I can't say the same for other nearby areas where I'm sure it will take months (if not years) to find any sense of "normalcy"😟. Bill p.s. I store my Ollie in a storage yard about 10 miles from my home. I'm assuming that it is still there and undamaged - I'll try to go for a visit by the weekend.

SITREP 18MAY: Departed Wednesday AM with 6 Airstreams, an RPod, and our OTT for Playa Bonita RV Park at Rocky Point, Puerto Penasco. FYI, our only issue with Casablanca was a faulty Suburban SW6DE water heater DC-side thermostat. Replaced the Tstat in short order - all good, so momma got her "Hollywood Shower" this morning (and I'm back in "hero" status). Best wishes to all those at the Ollie Rally this week! We would have been there had we not already planned this trip... Cheers! A & D (Magnus, too - WOOF!!!)

New owners trailer in foreground and the other two trailers in the background. This was the first time we have camped with other Oliver owners. We had fun talking about our trailers and our travels. I'm taking the picture!

Oddly, my brakes stopped working on our 2023 this past week. Brake light works, but no brakes. That’s on my list of things to do before it gets cold and before heading to Florida in January.