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Have you tried THESE things? To get things really clean I still have to use a "Q Tip" for deep in the corners and where the two windows meet. But a light spray of Simple Green or 409 or .... and a couple of swipes of one of these really does get things clean. Bill

I’ve had the conversation too much too much to argue about it, but so many people have ‘reckons about an EV when they’ve never even driven in one, let alone towed across the country. it’s cool, people should be happy with their choices. I’m sure you can explain to a casita owner why you’d never go back from your Oliver, and most EV owners will explain to oil burners why they’d never go back, but to do so would just be futile if the person doesn’t know what they’re missing.

The key is keeping it clean when camping We us our small vacuum or compressed air. We inspect before closing a window so we don't grind up debris. We call it daily preventative maintenance, and it pays off as our tracks have never had an issue.

Yep, or each time we get home. To wash the Oliver, I use a car soap foam-sprayer and first I get the entire Oliver soaked in soap suds. Then I mount the pressure washer gun and clean the entire body. I hit the windows with the pressurized water and you can see the dirt coming out of the weep holes. When you see clean water coming through you're done. I've asked Chris to go inside to see if anything gets wet inside, but it never does. She'll clean the interior window tracks as needed with a damp dust rag. I use a battery-powered leaf blower to get most of the water off the Oliver, preferring not to rub/towel dry. Hit the windows with air too. Now that we're ceramic-coated she cleans up nicely and quickly!

I'm reading this like it's slowly filling on its own, without the foot pedal valve being actuated, when pressurized by City Water. Extreme calcification is likely the cause and what Bill @topgun2 mentioned, some kind of vinegar decalcification process is necessary throughout your plumbing system, and also clean the filter at the water pump, soak all faucet aerators in CLR, etc. But at this point, you have your toilet fill valve crusted up enough so it will not fully seal. Looking at the picture it's hard to know if it is a serviceable unit. If not you will need to replace it with something like this: https://www.etrailer.com/Accessories-and-Parts/Dometic/DOM93FR.html Your first step is to get off City Water. Fill your fresh tank and use your water pump. This way when the pump is OFF it will not fill the toilet bowl! This would get you home or give you time for the repair. Then when you can, remove the foot pedal and the valve. See if it can be disassembled for cleaning or read the part number for correct replacement.

Raise or lower the front end so that the track flows down hill to a weep. 18" Heavy Duty Pipe Cleaners A hose end valve to control water flow to a small fan shaped nozzel to push against the weep to sort of force water into the track and flow water downhill in a controlled manner. Beyond cleaning annually, and checking for junk in the tracks, having window gutters was a HUGE improvement on the older trailers. gj

Randy: Getting back to your question. Some time along the way, the stairs were severly overloaded and bent the aluminum step angle down. Hence the slippage of the rubber shock absorbing rubber. You could load the stairs to flex the end of the angle down to provide more gap for replacement of the rubber. Then IF you are risk tolerant, you could place a jack under each of the angles and use the trailer weight to bend the angle back to where it was when your Ollie was made. The risk part is that if not done carefully, you could damage the angle's weld at the frame or worse. Or you could live with a bent step frame and discourage high impact loads on the steps.....which is what I would do! GJ.

I saw this combo going north on 5 yesterday! Searching google for it led me here. We have a Silverado EV with 450 miles of EV range / 225 miles towing our 7500lb Bigfoot 25’. We’re currently on BLM land near Death Valley. Coming from Ram 1500 Hemi you’d be surprised, the range differences to gas aren’t that big. In a pinch you can even “fill up” via a 50A RV park, sometimes for free! And the torque / braking power are unreal! We fly up hills and down them again, barely touching the brakes. You gotta try it to understand.

Certainly! We always travel with our fresh tank full whenever we leave home or leave campgrounds with good fresh water, thus allowing us to boondock the next few days. And we tow down steep mountain descents and on washboard dirt roads! We often tow back home with gray and black tanks near full, and fresh half full, since the RV dealer near home has a free dump station. We keep our Oliver bathroom and kitchen functional 100% of the time! Chris will NOT use a public bathroom during our Oliver travels. We like to have what we need to be off hookups for 7-10 days. We certainly have enough electric. We carry an extra 35 gal fresh water in the truck bed. We find the limiting factor is the gray tank fills first (as soon as we shower). Good thing out west it's legal to dump gray in BLM and FS lands (drain gradually when >500 ft from other campers and water sources). 90% of Arizona is 500 ft from a water source! Yes, fill up and tow your Oliver tanks full, NP! 😎