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I am really unclear on why anyone would want to POUR water into their freshwater tank when there is such an easy and elegant method already available to PUMP it into the tank. I can fill my tank in 15 minutes without ever having to hoist the weight of a water can. I did replace the manual valves with electric ones so that I do not have to manually turn them after crawling down under the bed. From then it's a simple matter of dropping my custom sump hose into the Scepter water cans and turning on the pump. We have all already got all the equipment needed installed in our trailers without any modifications whatsoever. Please feel free to enlighten me if I am missing something.

We have had the same generator basket on two different Olivers carrying our 165 lb Yamaha 3000 for over 60,000 miles total with no problems.

We have the risers and we love them. But then again I designed them myself in 2013 during the build of our (then) unfinished Outlaw Oliver in order to have additional storage space for a very specific piece of gear that I wanted to be able to carry. Steve Parsons at Oliver built special molds to make them. Our mattresses are about six inches thick. If you can stand erect in our trailer, when sitting on our beds your feet would not touch the floor. When Parsons built the molds, I had a specific height requirement but he told me he was designing them so that the piece being made could be cut down to a lower height if someone so desired. Understand that by doing this you would also decrease the amount of under bed storage. My design specifications resulted in over 13 ft.³ of storage under each bed and has a compartment door that will allow the introduction of an object up to 10 1/2 inches tall.

Ours are black. You could stare at the sun with them with NO light getting through. They only show fingerprints "a little" according to Tali. Personally, I've never noticed. We chose black because that is what we had in our first Outlaw Oliver and it compliments the black front of the refrigerator and our microwave.

Good work, Larry. Always better if you can repair something rather than just replace it.

We are currently having lunch in McCleary, WA on our way up to Kalaloch CG on the coast in Olympic NP.

John, aren't the two "inside" pics the same?

Good looking install. Very professional.

We are crossing from Idaho into Washington in the next day or so. We have been on the road for the past few months. We have hull # 50, the first new Elite II. Built in late 2013, picked up in early 2014 it is a twin bed model. Previously we had a 2008 Elite I with twin beds.

On our way to lead the Southern Utah Tour a month or so ago, we drove up from Durango to Silverton one afternoon. We had thought about spending the night in Silverton but decided instead to drive on over Red Mountain Pass to Ouray. It is a steep and winding road with sheer drop offs and no guard rails. The pass was at a little over elementary thousand feet. We had been told by the locals in Durango not to do it, but I don't take orders or unsolicited suggestions too well. The drive was beautiful and well worth the time spent. Although Tali says it was a "white knuckle" experience for her and she wasn't driving!

I would not even try to limit myself to 100 items. Shoot, I carry more tools than that, most of which I personally never use but I tend to carry things that other folks will need and I am always ready to assist them. During our recent Southern Utah Tour, I was able to get three different campers refrigerators operating again, tighten another's water heater annode, check an electrical problem with a portable solar system, replace a campers fuses that he accidentally blew and assist airing up tires with our onboard air compressor. I guess that's why our rig weighs in at over 14,000 pounds! But I always have what it takes to get the job done. I would not have it any other way.

Brandi, I have tons of pictures of your red trailer and the black trailer taken all the way from 2008 to present. Your history seems to be spot on. We are currently traveling in the far western reaches. We have just left from leading the Southern Utah Tour and are headed north towards Salt Lake City and then on into Idaho, Washington and Oregon. We will be home sometime in mid July. I would be happy to share what pictures I have of your trailer with you.

Banner Elk, home of the Woollyworm festival.

We are camping at The Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP in Colorado before moving on to Moab and the Southern Utah Tour. Wish we could have been with everybody at the rally.

The Commodore may be your best bet. We stayed there one night several years back for some reason or other. Believe it was about $90 or so. It is a very old downtown hotel. It was clean, quaint, quiet and about 30 something miles from the Oliver factory . The motel in Hohenwald is very basic but there is nothing wrong with it although it will still cost you $60 or $70. I guess it depends on which is more important, price or distance.

Just a thought. Considering that with the exit of the sewer pipe up under the trailer would you be able to reach it easily from the side or would you have to reach up under the trailer or, horrors, actually have to get down under the trailer?

It is not drawn in the correct position. You are correct in stating that it should be right next to the outlet on the tank and it is.

From Nashville head down the Natchez Trace till you get to a detour. The rally is right after you exit the Trace.

That would be my choice.

The wheel bearings on modern passenger vehicles are sealed and completely different from the ones in our trailers. These are like the bearings of automobiles and trucks of the 50's and earlier. They have to be repacked periodically. Somebody stated that Oliver suggests every 6000 miles. I'm not sure where that figure came from, but if I follow it, I'll probably have to repack my bearings about twice during this next trip!!!! I believe a lot of the data for bearing care is taken from the boat trailer industry where it is really necessary to routinely inspect and service your bearings due to their regular immersion in water, with salt being the most caustic. I would like to try to repack mine once a year but I just got around to it about a month ago when I placed new bearings during my new disc brake install. The old bearings were 3 years old but still looked fine. (That doesn't mean they necessarily were.)

We have the oldest drawer slides of any Elite II on our 2014 Outlaw Oliver and we have never had a kitchen drawer to come open during travels. We do not have any magnetic catches on any of the drawers. Some of the dampeners on the self closures have played out, but they still close (with a slight bang) and they stay closed. I have several new drawer slides to replace them with but I'm always doing something "more interesting!"

I do not believe the tires are balanced prior to delivery. During a recent visit to the factory, I met an owner just picking up his trailer and he took the tires off and had them balanced prior to leaving.

To everybody traveling the Trace, make sure you honk as you go by our house in Tupelo... Or better yet, stop and sit a spell.

The older units had a fuse at the front jack AND a fuse in the panel. The rear jacks were fused at the panel. Downside is they are not slow-blows in the panel. Currently, each jack is individually fused at the jack. Now, that being said the power has to come from somewhere. From your diagram it appears to be additionally fused at the buss bar under the street side bed. Do your other two jacks work? Have you checked for 12v on the hot side of the wire at the front jack? To see the buss bar you will have to raise the mattress to gain access to the forward hatch.

John, I thinks that's a great idea. Would this work for you?