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I have a lot of stuff in my shop. I’m getting rid of a lot of it but I still have to put our Oliver in an exact place to maximize space and be able to move stuff around it. A few years ago I made marks on a line parallel to the side wall with a paint pen then placed soccer cones on the marks to guide me while backing, keeping the tires close to the line of cones. After the trailer is in place I store the cones an a shelf by the door. Saves a bunch of time when storing the trailer.

I use these to get hair out of traps. https://drainweasel.com/ I throw them away rather than clean them. I keep a 3-pack in the Oliver and at home. The kids even got them in their stockings one Christmas🎅🏻 Like the old saying goes “Unclog a man’s drain and you help them that day. Teach a man to unclog his own drain and you help them for a lifetime.”

I’m not saying my hull moves on the frame, I’m saying my hull flexes. My bolts are tight. If I were to stand beside your trailer or any other Oliver I’m going to bet all of the hulls flex just like hulls 92 and 313. My point is you can make the frame as immovable as possible and you’re still going to have movement in the cabin due to flexing of the hull. I’m done.

I asked this as a rhetorical question. I’m not concerned about the movement because I think all hulls have it. I’m surprised that apparently no one else has seen it or has been out to see if their trailer has the movement since I posted my video. One can use all kinds of jacks, chocks, braces, voodoo, magic, etc. but you aren’t going to get the “Ollie Wobble” out of your Ollie. Hence my comment “You’re chasing your tail trying to make it “non wobbly”.

Has anyone else looked at their Oliver and seen this movement? Surely hulls 92 and 313 aren’t the only ones that exhibit this condition?

Pictures under the bathroom sink. When water in black tank can’t go out the dump valve it fills the black tank then goes up the black tank vent and down the sink drain to the grey tank if the back flow valve is open View looking down at top corner of black tank and sink drain going under shower View looking at plumbing under vanity adjacent to inside of front wall Path black water takes if black dump valve is closed and water is still filling black tank When water from black tank fills the grey tank it comes up through shower drain. If back flow valve is closed it doesn’t fill grey tank but comes up through shower drain anyway. Either way nasty stuff.

@ScubaRx, et alia: Watch video. Disregard cicadas and dog panting. Note movement of body relative to frame. It is not a “distance from wheel skirt to lens vs. frame to lens” optical illusion. Check your Oliver and tell me what you see. I’ve seen it on John Roemer’s hull 92 and my hull 313. I bet they all do it. You’re chasing your tail trying to make it “non wobbly”. IMG_2653.mov

In summary, the fiberglass body is not a rigid structure and the attachment of the body to the frame is not a rigid connection. I struck up a conversation with John Roemer, aka Raspy on this forum, at the 2019 Rally regarding the degree of movement felt inside the Oliver. We were sitting beside his Oliver and he was showing me the modified jack stand that he used in an attempt to reduce wobble by reducing the extension of the rear jacks when his wife, a very petite lady, entered their Oliver. While watching the frame area and the right rear jack atop the modified jack stand we noted how much the fiberglass body moved. We asked her to exit and re-enter and to move around inside the cabin and noted that even though the frame was stationary there was considerable movement in the body. I have used x-chocks between the tires and jack stands under the front corners and even though I can reduce the wobble I cannot eliminate it due to the inherent movement of the non-rigid fiberglass structure and its method of attachment to the aluminum frame. We have become accustomed to the movement and now set up with as little extra gear as possible.

Thanks. I wanted to make it simple.

Chains. And custom ball mount. And anti-rattle Hitch Vise

You’ll really like that Duramax / Oliver combination. We started out with a 1500 using the Andersen hitch and running right at max GVWR then switched to the 2500HD and quit using the Andersen. It made traveling so much more comfortable. Hollar back at me if you’re coming back through Union City some time. As for that particular dining establishment, we don’t know how they are staying in business.

Hello to the brand new LEII at Applebees in Union City TN on August 12, 2023. I’m the one that left the note on your TV. Good looking rig. Safe Travels.

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The caulk around my shower pan was too thin and the flexing of the pan opened up a crack and allowed water under the pan which wound up under the black mat in the closet. I removed all of the old caulk and recaulked after placing a tractor weight in the shower pan to prestress the pan. Haven’t had any water under the black mat since doing this.

A friend of mine and former Oliver owner broke a tab on the snap-out return air grill on his Dometic air distribution box (ADB) cover. He had to order the whole ADB cover assembly just to get the return air grill. I broke one of the doors on the side of our ADB and he sent me the rest of the ADB cover that he didn’t need so that I could get the part I needed. I sent him half of what he paid and we both ended up getting the parts we needed for less than the cost of the whole ADB cover. My point is that if someone has to order an assembly from Dometic to get the part they need they might can cut their losses by offering up the rest of the assembly for sale in the Classified section of the forum.

Way to dump tanks when raining so that water running off roof doesn’t fall onto open outside basement door. Don’t want electric dump valves and don’t want to cut holes in basement door.

That’s not one of them

You can put a lock on the Bulldog hitch lever if it makes you feel better but anyone can pry the “latch wire” off of that lever with a screwdriver or pair of pliers in seconds and render the lock useless. You’re better off with the collar lock in place when hitched.

These Camco jack stands will stop the wobble. Just snug them up, don’t try to support the weight of the trailer. We’ve quit using them, and the x-chocks. Just something else to have to mess with. You’ll get used to the movement.

Ok I’ll come clean. I never really intended to put wings on Martha’s Oliver. I just made the OP to see what reaction I would receive. I guess that makes me a troll? But after that post I have caught myself looking at the trailer in passing and imagining how it would look with wings and how I might fabricate and attach them. I might mock up something this winter and temporarily attach them just to see how they would look. The trailer in the OP is sitting at a new business that I pass every day. It’s a small camper sales lot that just started up and it’s owned by a young couple. I stopped in just after they opened to look the place over and wish them luck in their new adventure. The young lady behind the desk asked if I had an RV. I said yes, I have an Oliver Travel Trailer and proceeded with the usual explanation that it’s a fiberglass trailer made in Tennessee, but she quickly stopped me, removed her forearms from the edge of the keyboard and pushed her chair away from the desk and said in excitement “Oh! You have an OLIVER?” She continued saying that she knew what an Oliver was and had contacted the company in an unsuccessful attempt to be a dealer. After talking more about the merits of an Oliver Travel Trailer I left with that usual sense of satisfaction that we experience after being recognized as an “Oliver Travel Trailer owner.”

@CorvusThere you go! Merle Haggard. 👍🏻