ScubaRx
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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.
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Banner Elk, home of the Woollyworm festival.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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From Nashville head down the Natchez Trace till you get to a detour. The rally is right after you exit the Trace.
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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.)
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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!"
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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.
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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.
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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.
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John, I thinks that's a great idea. Would this work for you?
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Besides Natchez Trace and Fall Hollow are there any other campground alternatives within ~ 30 min. from Oliver Factory? Full hookups and paved? Roomy sites? Natchez Trace was blocked off when we tried to go to the campground. I wonder when this spring the roads will be back up and open? *** Wouldn’t it be great if we could talk Oliver to set up their own mini-campground that is paved, full hookups, and bathhouse close to the factory? Surely they are making money hand over fist and could more than afford their own accommodation to make it easier for first time shakedowns and returning owners. *** No doubt at some point we will need to go back to the motherload to get some sort of mod or repair before the 1 year warranty runs out. Fall Hollow was a muddy mess and it looks as though Natchez Trace is limited on the comforts. (See our Mud Hollow images.) Pretty rough camping and not very clean. Didn’t have even gravel in the campsite. Not impressed but at least 1 night was free. Thank you Oliver for that part. No other maker I know puts people up for the night and are willing to repair and help with the first step up.
Meriwether Lewis park - 7 miles from Hohenwald, Free, Water available, no hookups, dump station, woody all shade, no gravel, paved road or stay at the sales office, hook to electricity, water available, free, not level, did I mention free or go over to Wal-Mart.
As far as money hand over fist, if they are profiting anything, it's a recent event. These trailers cost a bundle to produce.
The Natchez Trace is only closed between Fall Hollow and Meriwether and it will reopen this year sometime. Unless you're coming in from the South, that's irrelevant and, if you are going to Hohenwald, you will turn at Meriwether and it's still irrelevant.
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Matteo,
Thank you for your posts and generous offer on the price. Many of our setups are similar but each will have some variations. Since I have a 3000 watt Yamaha Generator, I'm not concerned about that part of the equation. What I would like to do was what David originally set about to achieve, run his AC off his batteries.
I understand that there is a finite amount of energy in the batteries. I understand that when depleting the batteries there is a point past which one should not go. My setup is a Dometic Penguin II AC, 4 x 200 amp hour 6 volt Trojan AGM's (total = 400 amp hours, usable = 200 amp hours), 300 watts of solar, and a Kisae pure sine wave inverter 2000W (SWXFR1220).
My question would be, sitting in full sun and using the above criteria, could I expect your EasyStart 364 model to be able to start and run my AC?
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In the Oliver, he was running it with the standard 4 Trojan T-105's and the 320 watt solar. He later added two more batteries so he had even more reserve power.
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David Kemp (trumpetguy) was using this equipment in his Oliver. He is now using the same in his Airstream. In full Florida sun, he was running his AC off the Trojans for as much as 8 hours at a time! Hopefully, he will chime in here with his experiences.
The company has a complete Dometic Penguin II installation instructional on their website. It fits neatly inside the unit on the outside.
The necessary unit costs a little over $300.00.
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Thought I would test this since apparently nobody has posted in the past 24 hours.
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Where's your baby's cover? Sometimes it gets cold at night!!!
Very well done, and a great idea. Good work.
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Just wanted to report that Scott Oliver introduced me to Jason at the factory yesterday and he's not "creepish" at all! He will be a great addition to the forum team and will be able to spend the time necessary to get and keep it running well. Welcome aboard, Jason...
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...Meanwhile, I’m going to install an inverter in my Ollie too. Mainly for some bigger loads, like the microwave. But I don’t have a wiring diagram to see how Oliver integrates them into the trailers. I wonder where I can get a wiring diagram?
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I don't have a wiring diagram although it's not really necessary for your project. I would be happy to help you with it. I installed one in mine about a year ago. You will be working with both 12 Volts DC and 120 Volts AC. I believe Reed Lukens can hook you up with a wiring diagram.
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Good to see both of you at the factory this past Wednesday. I hope you two are having the time of your lives. Where's the next destination?
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...Love the installation, but tell me about your hose hanger. It is an elegant solution. What did you use for the eyelet fittings? Did you consider using conventional rubber strap exhaust hangers? I really like your neat and tidy brake lines...
John, thanks for the kind words.
I did consider something commercially available but I needed something the next morning and I made them up from stuff in the shop. The hangers were made about midnight one evening in a fit of desperation and inspiration. They consist of a short piece of vinyl covered cable, some #8 washers, a couple of ring tongue electric crimp connectors, some of these (opened up and re-bent to conform to the diameter of the brake hose), a pop rivet and a sheet metal screw. My advice is to make these up on the bench rather than under the trailer at the time of installation...trust me. Despite what it looks like, the hose is hanging straight below the attachment point.
100 item challenge
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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.