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Through the years I have acquired every size hole saw that Dewalt makes from 9/16” to 6”. I have used them many times to cut perfectly sized holes in wood, acrylic, fiberglass, aluminum and mild steel. It’s much cleaner and easier if you can put your piece into a drill press rather than trying to use a hand drill. This is a deep scrub into the upper edge of the basement door. I had it open and moved the trailer forward allowing it to contact the concrete.

The main problem with taking it anywhere other than Oliver is getting a perfect match on the color of the gel coat. My Hull #050 (and the next hundred or so builds) are a different color from the current ones. They no longer keep the old color in stock.

Yeah, the new Elite’s have ended up weighing more than our originals did. Our old one never weighed more than around 3900.

We are camped tonight not far down the road from you guys. I needed the oil changed in the truck so we stopped in Kerrville.

I believe the #3 key is to the lock on the super secret hidey hole. You will be told its location after six months of ownership. 😂🤣😂🤣

We are overnighting near Fort Stockton. It’s windy getting cold.

If he has any of that food left, we could be there by tomorrow evening and help him out with it.

I consider up and down to be in reference to the jack’s foot. I fixed all the switches to be the same. Push the switch up and the jack goes up (trailer goes down.) But, to be perfectly transparent, my switches are all positioned where I can actually see the jack when I'm operating it.

I like a towing speed of 63-65 mph on a good smooth road. We get a consistent 12.8mpg overall on each of our typical trips of 4-5K miles. I can set the cruise and relax. I can control speeding up and slowing down with my left thumb on the steering wheel and the heads up display on the windshield gives me all the info I need without ever moving my eyes. On the other hand, I’ve on occasion found myself doing 80+ mph. Like on US-50 across Nevada where you may go 40-50 miles without meeting another vehicle or coming to a curve in the road. Just because towing with a 10K pound truck makes this feel comfortable doesn’t mean you should actually do it. Slow down, enjoy the trip and don’t hit a 900 pound elk.

No contest on a tow for the LEII. 3/4 ton or 1 ton. Not much difference in price, lots of difference in cargo capacity. Don’t waste thousands and thousands of dollars moving up every few years (which you will do). Buy big and, as Tony says, “fuggedaboutit”.

It was very good to see you in Quartzsite this week. I hope you had all your questions answered and came away with some good information that proves useful to you.

Since this was a hijack from a thread about shower pans, I attempting to move parts of it to a new thread in an effort to keep it on track. Somehow who wrote what got all jumbled up and I ended up not making it any better. So I locked it. Anyone wanting to continue along these lines will need to start a new thread.

No. The only way that clean fresh water can get into the shower pan is from above. Black water CAN find its way into the pan from below but that’s a whole ‘nother issue requiring a perfect storm of very specific circumstances.

I agree, One can never have too much power. 💯agree never. 😊 Hi Golfnut: The Tundra towed remarkably well even while climbing the mountains in Virginia. The tow haul mode works very well as well as the trailer assist features, we were very pleased. The air suspension makes for a comfortable ride. The Olly tracks extremely well behind the truck and it was easy to forget that it was there at all, never the slightest indication of sway even when passing or being passed by tractor trailers, and no problem accelerating on interstate on-ramps or climbing hills (twin turbos 😍). I never felt uncomfortable towing the Olly even when traversing tight shopping center parking lots. We over packed the truck on this trip so we were slightly heavy on the rear axle, next time out we'll pay more attention to weight distribution and adjust the WD hitch slightly. Towing we got a little over 13 MPG which included a fair amount of climbing. The Anderson Bulldog WD hitch works well but I struggled a bit getting lined up properly for the whale tail to align, I have to work on that! I’m off topic, too. Like that name “Golfnut”! We take our clubs on all Ollie adventures. Nice looking rig! 👍 We enjoy towing our LE2 with our 22 Tundra. Started experimenting with 7th gear around 62MPH with cruise on, getting 15MPG on our last round trip from NC to the TN plateau area and back on interstates. Going up mountain grades I do slow some to preserve good MPG. We don’t have solar on our LE2, keep the ready to camp weight around 4950 lbs after weight savings measures. Early congratulations are in order!! It's been almost 13 years since Deb and I retired. I highly recommend it! 😃 Thanks, Tom & Doreen for your feedback. Our daughter & son in law have a 2023 Tundra ( got in December) they love it so far, they have a 20ft. Airstream Basecamp X. .. I take my Sticks with me every chance I can…

That’s what I’m talking about.

We’ll still be here (33.64244° N, 114.30655° W) if the crick don’t rise. 😃

All this is like the “rule” that you can’t utilize the rear jacks to lift the side of your trailer completely off the ground when that capability used to be a major selling point. If you knew the real reason behind their change of heart, you’d be flabbergasted. Come by at the rally in May and I’ll fill you in on the details. We’ve been sitting at Dome Rock for a week now with both port side tires a couple of inches off the ground, held up by only the jack and, as far as I know, the earth is still spinning around the sun at about 18 miles a second with no ill effects so far. I’ll update you here if anything untoward happens.

Looks like the Mississippi cotton fields in October.

While traveling in West Virginia our GPS showed us a neat shortcut between two parallel roads. Cool. I should have known to turn around when we came to a power line hanging so low across the road that I had to lift it up with a telescoping fiberglass pole to get past it… Carry a paper map and use your common sense.

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But, do you still have an 8-Track recorder? If not, and you have a nostalgic itch for one, I can make you a hell of a deal. I’m also willing to let my Sony Betamax go and I’ll even throw in the stack loader that went with it. Oh, and brand new IBM Selectric.

I still have a couple of slide rules from college. I’m gonna bring them with me when we stop by your house to drop off the alligators you need. And, I need a refresher course on how to use the slide rule.

We never “plan” a trip. We know the endpoint and not much else. Never made reservations more than a few hours in advance and have never had a problem getting a spot. We don’t use any apps to find spots to camp. Just look on a paper map for a place to stop. We mostly boondock. We never have any problems finding water to fill the tank or a free dump site. I don’t like being tied to any schedules. Nearly two decades of school and four plus decades in the medical field gave me a lifetime’s worth of conformity. If I make plans, it feels like I’m being told what to do. I don’t like being told what to do, even if it’s myself doing the telling.

I would never leave on a trip without a paper atlas. And recently we’ve taken to stopping at the welcome centers when entering a new state and picking up their latest official state map. A large map gives you the option of seeing a Birdseye view and being able to “look down the road” further than you ever could with the tiny screen on your phone. Then we look at the GPS.

OK, Kevin. Apparently you were not aware of Texas Law BR-0459. No one over the age of 55 is allowed to use a ladder without two adults supervising. Further, nobody is allowed to say, "Hey Buddy, hold my beer." I fell about 16 months ago and had massive subdural hematoma. It required an emergency craniotomy. We'uns need to learn to be more careful.