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Anybody done a mod where you can close the basement door while a drain valve handle is pulled? I know it’s best to only drain the tanks when there is water in them so I’m not wanting to open the valve and leave it open. I want to be able to open a valve and then close the basement door when it is raining cats and dogs and the water is pouring off the roof directly onto the open basement door. Bill

What is that mounted up high on the back of the Outlaw Oliver? Some kind of anti-tailgater device?

It was #301. From Ohio. Don’t know their forum name. Staying somewhere on the Schoodic Peninsula.

Turns out it isn’t Walter Jenkins. The owners saw our post on the Facebook Group and said it was them.

Yes. Pretty sure that was it.

We think it was Walter Jenkins. Saw a picture of his outfit on the Facebook group and that looked like the rig we saw.

So, if not enough air flow and the vents are all open could it be a plugged return filter?

Don’t think it was him. I’ve been PMing Maniac. He said by his count he thinks there are 10-12 Olivers in ME this week.

Today, headed east on US Highway 1, just outside Ellsworth ME eastern city limits. Burgundy and gray stripes. Black TV. I was driving the white Chevrolet truck, waving with both hands, not pulling a trailer. Does anyone here belong to it?

I’ve been checking the threaded knob under the license plate that holds the spare tire cover on. I have found it loosens after a day on the road. I am going to add a Nyloc nut to keep it from backing off. Edit: Just found a post by DavePhelps September of last year that addresses this. http://olivertraveltrailers.com/topic/spare-tire-cover/#post-72664

Who carries an Xtend & Climb ladder? Is the 750P (8.5 ft) tall enough?

Mainiac, we do have the black tank flush fitting but it is my understanding that it just allows you to put water in the black tank, same as if just pouring water in through the toilet valve. It doesn’t have a spray function to dislodge, as you put it, the “pyramid of doom”. Edited to add: Mainiac, just reread your post. The black tank flush fitting is on the street side, outside, under where the front dinette seat would be. The curb side rear fitting is for filling the fresh tank and winterizing. Edited to add: The black tank flush fitting has a check valve and a fixed nozzle with several holes in it that spray water in several directions. Look up Valterra No Fuss Flush fitting.

The ice cubes in the black tank sounds like a good idea, but I think I would be careful about doing that. I’m sitting here looking at a cold bottle of beer right now and there are water droplets on it. Now if you put ice in your black tank and the humidity is moderately high you will have water droplets form on the outside of your black tank and the water will end up in your bilge (you sailors may correct me on the use of the term, if incorrect). I have a thing I wash my tractor radiator out with. I stuck that thing down through the open valve in my toilet and blew the, well, you get the idea. Just be sure to stick it all the way in. Don’t ask me how I know. Edited to add: Submitted by Bill. Not Martha. (She wanted me to be clear on that point).

The sensors are on the rear end of the tanks. If hooked to sewer at a campsite I like to be level side to side and tilted slightly back.

How do you use the search function on this forum? I can type in something to search for but I get a lot of unrelated stuff to go through and I may or may not find anything that I searched for. Are you supposed to use certain words or characters to do a search?

Steve, the door is plenty tight. The water is entering where there is no seal. Don’t know why the factory would leave a gap like that.

What have you all done to keep road spray out of the basement?

Topgun2, I think Mainiac was letting me know that he couldn’t respond to a PM that I had sent him. (Another) Bill.

Yes, I have noticed that also. So, those folks are sort of “tailgating” while looking at an Oliver, so they are “Olliegating”. And when they pass you and give you a thumbs up (salutation) that is an “Ollietation”.?

Sitting in bumper to bumper traffic with my wife’s Oliver behind my truck today, moving at a snail’s pace on I75 in Lexington KY when I hear a “toot-toot” beside me. I look over, then up at a truck driver motioning for me to roll my window down (like when windows had a crank). I’m thinking Oh Crap! Has my battery tray latch broken or is my window shade about to fall off or is he going to remind me to grease my EZ Flex suspension? So I roll my window down and the fellow yells out “Has that thing got a bathroom in it?” I hollar back “Yes Sir” and he gives me a thumbs up and says “I like it!” Now how often does that happen to somebody pulling an Airstream or SOB (Some Other Brand)? Made my wife’s day. Well, mine too.

Did you reverse your bolts so that the grease fittings would be on the inside to keep from having to remove the tires or use a 90 degree head on your grease gun when greasing?

One more thing then I’ve got to mow the yard. Take your shade off and lay it on a flat surface and see if it lays flat. I just noticed one of mine has a slight warp to it. This might contribute to it popping loose. This is what I have learned about mechanical problems: Think about coming up to a four way stop and meeting 3 other cars. If everyone does what they are supposed to then all is well. But if you and the car on your left or the one on your right pull out at the same time all is not well. Everything is fine unless two things that aren’t supposed to happen at once happen at once. Well this sounded better in my head than it does in writing. Anyway, maybe two small things are happening at the same time to cause the shade to pop loose. Am I making sense?

Ok, my wife said it was too pretty outside for me to be inside and that I should go outside and play. Well I went outside and went in the shop to get the mower out. Only the Oliver propane cover was in the way of getting the mower out. I hate putting the propane cover back on because it doesn’t want to fit right over the aluminum plate on the front of the hull. Only this time the port was open on the front of the cover so I reached in and pushed on the part of the cover right above where the aluminum plate is and the darn cover fell right into place without having to fiddle with it. Why haven’t one of you old timers passed this trick on???

There are spacers, maybe 1/8 to 3/16 inch thick under my clips. I have hull 313 built February 2018. Do you have these spacers under your clips?

John, this sounds crazy, but what if you pulled the power center out and put it back in upside down. The door will open the opposite way. It is so close to the floor I have to lay on the floor to see it and even then it is difficult to see with the readers in the bottom of my lenses. Mounted upside down you could lean over the dinette seat with your chest resting on the edge of the seat and look down at it.