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You've been bitten more than twice??? C'mon Frank. 😊

Won't happen. The Elite II's don't have the Correct Axles for the changeover and that's 90% of the units sold. Just my two cents worth, and like yours, worth every penny.

Just be glad it isn’t you. https://www.facebook.com/1184617314918277/posts/pfbid02YD7fS9AA2XybTCqqjPVXD3bE13anT7gWMzHA9oNNYmrGQ5aRS5WTaA1EGwWAz8dMl/?app=fbl

I designed a floor plan for a house we planned to build a couple of years ago. When the garage and adjoining shop reached almost 4000 square feet, I decided we probably didn't need to build an 8000 square foot house at our age. It would have been nice though.

To do it absolutely correctly, one would need to replace most of the Pex tubing, especially any that are under 2 feet long. Cutting out a fitting will subtract about 3/4 inch of pipe length with each cut. The plumbing lines installed in the new Oliver's today are cut to the exact the lengths they need to be to accomplish their job, part of which is to have no stress put on the fittings at either end by being too short. The only fitting I've ever had fail (Two different Oliver Trailers, well over 150K miles total) was one where the line was hanging free vertically (near the pump), too short, had no support at either end, and had been pieced in the middle with a straight coupler (very bad practice). Vibration from the earthquake being towed through a hurricane finally made it fail. When the pump was active it was pumping water directly into the basement. My point is you should not have to pull two lines closer to each other (introducing stress) to merely replace a fitting that was working just fine because you perceive it as inferior. You may inadvertently introduce a problem you didn't previously have. I do agree that if a plastic fitting does fail, replace it with a brass one. Just as a cost comparison, at Home Depot: A Pro pack that includes five 1/2 in. Plastic PEX-B Barb Tee fittings will cost you $1.68 for each fitting. A 1/2 in. lead free dezincification resistant (DZR) brass Pex Tee will run you $3.65. A Shark-bite brand 1/2 in. Push-to-Connect Brass Tee Fitting is priced at $13.27.

I added this info to your Signature. It's under where you Edit your profile. Feel free to change it to whatever you desire.

The area called Dome Rock is about 4 miles due West of Quartzsite. It is a mile or so South of I-10 (you can see it in the distance.) This is where we'll all be camped. You're actually closer to Quartzsite coming from Oregon than we are coming from Mississippi. You should plan on coming down. We usually go over to Death Valley NP and/or Joshua Tree for a few days. It's actually pretty pleasant (temperature wise) that time of the year.

I will be in a group of three Oliver's arriving together in late January or early February. We will all be at the Dome Rock area.

I never thought this was an intentional hijack, but it turned in to one never the less. As you stated, "...B&N is working on what is likely to be an electrical problem between the furnace and thermostat where as DG has introduced an issue that is appears more similar to a typical short cycle condition..." They each needed to have their own thread.

I do agree that the current owner has done a magnificent job of reconstruction. I wonder who moved the body back onto the frame. I am well acquainted with that procedure.

This thread has been split from Bill and Nancy's Furnace is cycling on and off every 2 minutes. There WILL be some apparent discontinuity issues as a result

And I most wholeheartedly agree with both of you. I get really tired of seeing folks hijack someone else's thread with a similar (but actually unrelated) problem of their own and then everyone gets confused and nobody gets any help. I've reread the entire thread and as BHNCB stated there's TWO different issues here and they're not interrelated. We could close this entire thread and everyone can start their own, but that's not fair to Bill and Nancy. I have renamed the thread: "Bill and Nancy's Furnace is cycling on and off every 2 minutes" and hence forth anything posted here should pertain only to the problems that Bill and Nancy are having. Additionally I am going to attempt to move non-pertinent posts to another thread. This will likely result in some apparent discontinuity in both threads. Please folks, in the future, start another thread that addresses your problem rather than tagging it into an existing one.

It was not the black trailer, but I agree it was cobbled together and butt ugly.

Just click on the link posted. If your title "Not on Facebook" indicates that you are not a member of FB, then I suppose you'll have to join.

I have a Sony Betamax machine for sale. I’ll even throw in the optional stack loader.

Could your fill a couple of 55 gallon drums of that diesel and bring it over to my house? It's still about $4.50 here.

Early in our traveling days in our 2008 Oliver Elite, we realized that shoe storage was a problem. Either we were tripping on the ones that seemed to always litter the tiny floor space or digging through the bottom of the closet in search of two that matched. Tali likes to have her hiking boots, sandals, wet shoes for showering, and her ubiquitous flip-flops. I don't wear sandals, never use any shower other than our own, and literally haven't worn a pair of flip-flops since I first tried them some time around 1956. I've worn the same boot for a couple of decades or more. It's the only pair of shoes I own. They are Original Swat's in desert tan. I buy them 2-3 pairs at a time at a local Army Surplus store for about $75 per pair. They will last about a year and are the most comfortable shoe I've ever worn. By the time I move on to a new pair they are looking pretty ratty. So, my shoe storage solution is simple, on all our trips I take only one pair of shoes. I never intentionally go bare foot so I'm either wearing them or they're "stored" on the floor at the foot of my bed waiting on me to get up and put them back on. Problem solved, for me at least. Tali doesn't necessarily see the simplicity in my plan.

Now Bill, you know that one can NOT have too muck truck.

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That’s what we did, David. Our original AGM’s lasted from 2013 until 2020. We installed three BB 100 amp hour batteries.

Diesel is still around $4.50, gas is under $3.00. In Tupelo.

I believe you are exactly correct. That's probably the reasoning behind others leaving the door open also.

I'll bet this has been stated thousands of times through the years. Yet still, there are folks that pick up and leave the same day. When they have a problem down the road a bit they want to get on here and complain. This is GREAT advice and and should be heeded by all. There's really no good excuse not to stick around a few days and check everything out, just build the extra time into your pickup experience. I promise you won't regret it. John, it's really good to hear you've been taken care of by Oliver and I believe you will never be disappointed "...that I chose Oliver over some other brand."

Its never happened to us, but thru the years, I've read several accounts of the bathroom door being shattered when left open while traveling. I always travel with ours closed and latched.

Don't overlook that "real" copper spring. None of that fake copper like they have in poorer parts of the world.