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SIZE AND LENGTH OF BEDS ? Answer courtesy of SeaDawg: > Welcome to the forum... Just answered this question, in part, on another forum.... We have the Oliver Legacy Elite Big dinette back, converts to standard full size bed... 52-53" (depends on where you measure, tho fairly square...) by 75" This conforms to standard dimensions of many good name mattresses like Tempurpedic... We keep the big dinette set up as a bed if we're gone awhile... Had thought about putting in a different mattress originally, but I sleep very well on the cushions topped with a good quality mattress pad. Small dinette converts to narrow twin... a little deeper and longer than my sofa... 24 x 73

Hey, Phill, that looks good !

To assist folks in learning about Oliver Travel Trailers, let's post frequently asked questions in this thread. For example: Is a TWIN BED OPTION AVAILABLE ? YES How hard is it to order the TWIN BED SETUP ? Just tell Robert in SALES

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Very cool Tom !

Great Photo ! Thanks for posting them. I went to several other sites and looked at your other pix, they are great. Again, thanks, Phil.

Chuck brings up a good point, the standard shock absorbers can be supplimented wit an additiona set, making four shocks on our four inch lift axle. This increases stability in all kinds of situations. On our last trip West, we sure appreciated the extra stability when fighting a gusting 30 MPH quartering wind for a 12 hour day.

Quite a lot of the construction photos are posted at this link: http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii120/robertpartee/ Click on the MARKS link to the left then select slide show to see Pete's trailer being built, from the ground floor up, modifications and all. Questions about the various stages and speciffics may be addressed to BUFFALO BOB on these forums. Buffalo Bob is Robert Partee who is the Sales Manager that gets all of those cool things put in place in the Oliver as it is being built.

Because of topics about mattresses on other forums, Butcherknife and I were looking into that, for we also like a permanent bed. We decided to give the Oliver's cushions a try after seeing how well they fit togather and how well they supported our weight while in the dining table configuration. Our first night on the cushions supprised us and we have only added a thin "egg crate" foam mattress pad to the top of the cushions. This works well for us and we can still have the dining table for a domino game with the neighbors on a rainy day. I know that this isn't an answer to your cushion replacement question, just what works well for us.

We opted for the 4" lift axle and the 15" tires for many of the same reasons that SeaDawg did. But find benefits in another area as well. Even in a dip or swag going into a Mountain Home Dulcimer shop in the Ozarks, that had many scrapes and gouges in the pavement, from other travel trailers, didn't come even close to scraping our rear bumper ! I almost missed seeing the turn and turned in quickly. We were into this trouble spot before we knew it. It seemed to have happened to quite a few others judging by all of the marks on the pavement. Yet, we just cruised smoothly through thanks to the lift and the tires.

Carolann, thanks for the report. Pete and Oscar are at the Bluebonnet rally and are having a great time from the reports that we see on here. Casitan's have been most gracious and curious about Pete's Oliver. Weren't those graphics on the nose of the wonderegg cool !!

Mark, sounds like you have done the homework and are about ready to find an Oliver to look at ! Butcherknife and I went through the aproximate same process, except used our boat to tow to the lake a few times. We couldn't find hardly anyone that was towing with a Jeep Wrangler at the time. We did however find two Jeepers on a couple of other forums, and they were towing the heavier Casita 17's, so we began to feel more and more confident about the lighter Oliver. The horse power and torque ratings were there so we went for it and havn't looked back yet ! It seems to me that the higher torque at lower RPM of a diesel engine might be the ticket to smooth merging with the flow of traffic, when entering a busy interstate highway.

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efelker said: 1. Does shortening the tongue put more weight on the hitch ball than lengthening? a. Yes 2. Does shortening the tongue reduce the tendency to sway? b. No, but the most common sway contributor is too much weight behind the trailer axle, which will have the effect of lifting up on the trailer hitch ball. ( making the rear of the tow vehicle lighter ) I would want to keep my tongue weight as low as possible with the least tendency to sway -- so would the tongue be in or out? ED, I think that hasn't mattered much to butcherknife and I. We have towed both ways, in and out. Also with the generator on the tongue and off of it. Without the even the slightest hint of sway. One sure way to reassure one's self about the tongue weight is with a Sherline tongue weight scale. Here is a link to the manufacturer: http://www.sherline.com/lm.htm The last time I priced them they cost around $100. it looks like this:

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