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Very nice mod that reminded me of this previous post. Mossey

Thank you Paul! I saw a post this morning about traveling in cold weather and SeaDog responded with a link to your heater duct mod. After reading it, I realized I missed your original post or maybe I just forgot it. And I will add that it was very informative and nicely done. Mossey

Nicely done but I have to ask, what’s the coiled duct work for? Is that heat for camping up north? Mossey

The product is EZE RV Gutter. Use the search function for the term gutter and you will find more information than you need. Mossey

This sounds like a classic case of “he said, he said”. Mossey

I didn’t think Mike and Carol were coming!🤔 Mossey

My 2017 has 2-160 watt panels that are original equipment. The panels are attached to the AM Solar mounting feet with the same spring nuts as shown in your pictures. If the frames are the same on the old and new panels, which I can’t tell with you pictures, I believe the difference may be the mounting feet. Oliver used AM Solar mounting equipment on NCeagle's original panels and he used different mounts for the new Obsidian panel. It’s hard to see in NCeagle's picture, but it looks like the 1/4” bolt is visible going up through the clamp and into the spring nut which is in the t-slot in the bottom of the rail. Mossey

Looking forward to breaking bread with everyone. Mossey

My thumb of course! Mossey

Thanks Overland! I’m not sure I’m up for arthroscopic surgery on the black tank. Mossey

I often resorted to a piece of common nylon cord and 2 sticks for handles to cut PVC pipe that was inaccessible to saws or cutters. It’s not easy but it is doable. Mossey

I do not have a composting toilet so there is a lot about them that I don’t know. But the one thing I do know and that’s the exhaust tubing is the ugliest thing in an Oliver. I always thought that if I moved to a composting toilet, I would try running the tubing through the floor and over to the vanity. Now I’ll ask if that’s even feasible? Looking at Overland’s pictures, I can’t tell if there is room to run the tubing along the grey water drain pipe back below the toilet. Mossey

I am known for asking silly questions, so please don’t be offended. When I look at the 2017 plumbing diagrams, I don’t see how the water from the city water inlet can reach the freshwater tank unless the valves are in the wrong configuration, they are defective or it is flowing backwards through the pump. Am I missing something? Mossey

SeaDawg, I think the key term in the information you posted is "system". And my layman’s understanding of the tax credit information I read is that you need a complete solar system to claim the credit. Our tax preparer thought I was nuts when I provided receipts for my solar system. But she verified my claim was legitimate and my tax credit was over $1000. I started out needing to replace a bad 6v wet cell battery. But all of the battery information I found suggested replacing all 4 batteries. I explored upgrading to AGM's but that was going to be in the $1500 range. Then I found Battle Born 100 AH lithium’s for $925 to my door. So $1900 for 200 AH's of lithium was not much of a stretch. Then I looked into the tax credit which led my pea brain to justify a 3rd Battle Born battery, a Victron MPPT charge controller and 2-90 watt solar panels and all of the assorted cables, connectors, breakers and anything else needed to create a complete "solar system". The only thing I couldn’t justify claiming as an expense was my labor which I have never been able calculate. So in conclusion, I believe new solar panels or batteries or charge controllers alone do not qualify for the tax credít and it must be a complete solar system to justify a tax credit claim. And of course it's possible that I am completely nuts and the IRS is going to be knocking on my door demanding $1000 back. And that’s how I spent my COVID-19 vacation, Mossey

This page is from the Dexter Axle Manual. Mossey

Then how do you catch your 🪰 for fishing? Mossey

Thanks for the video and reminding me how much we love the Canadian Rockies. We have toured them by car and motorcycle but never by RV. We really like Jasper, Banff not so much. I have never gotten used to commercial areas in the middle of Canadian National Parks. And now to completely contradict myself, we really enjoy the hiking around Waterton Park in Waterton Lakes National Park. Mossey

We don't have room for cushions in bed, that's where the dogs sleep. They seem to prefer the cooler sidewalls. But that’s one of the differences between the northwest and the southeast. Mossey

I did a boy’s trip to Alaska in June 2017 and we tent camped for nearly two weeks. One of the campgrounds we stayed at was Tok RV Village Campground. It maybe the only campground I have seen with a RV wash station at and there was usually a line of RV's waiting to wash. Tok is the first stop in Alaska with any services after leaving Canada if we don't count Chicken🤔. It’s at the end of the Top of the World / Taylor Hwy, so all of the RV's coming from Dawson City looked a lot like the trailer in the video. It’s the only place I have ever seen a dirty Marathon Class A. Mossey

Sorry JD, but I do not have any other pictures and I really don’t have an opinion on the cause of the nipple cracking. I will add that my friend and I were working off of rolling scaffolding on each side of the trailer. And we didn’t have any previous experience so we took our time and solved each problem as it came up. This is the installation page that pertains to the Penguin ll. J Mossey

Just back from walking the dogs and the bugs are making a racket in Lutz. Don’t know if it is Cicadas or not but it is not the usual noise at dusk. It was coming from the trees, not the ground and seemed louder around the oak trees. If I heard them 17 years ago I don’t remember and if I’m here in 17 years for the next Cicada event, I won’t remember what they sounded like this year. Oh well, Mosssey

"I don't know the lyrics either, so I just hum along", said one cicada to the other. Mossey

While camping in Arkansas in May of 2019, I found a fair amount of water running off the rear curbside roof while the AC was running. I figured out that if the lowest point of the Ollie was the curbside, then the condensate water rain off the curbside roof. If the low point was the street side, the condensate drained through the internal drain tube and out under the Ollie as it should. That allowed us to manage the condensate water drainage as needed. When I finally got around to troubleshooting the actual problem I found out Oliver had installed a Dometic accessory drain kit which consisted of 2 white plastic cups and vinyl tubing and 4 screws and 3 or 4 hose clamps. There is an accessory cup on both sides off the AC unit that receive the condensate from the steel drain pan built into the the base of the AC. The drain kit tubing connects the accessory drain cups to Oliver’s internal drain tubing. I could see the internal drain pan after pulling the AC shroud and a few other parts off. Without the accessory drain kit the condensate would exit the drain pan and onto the roof through a drain hole on each side. So RV's with the Dometic AC but without the accessory drain kit would experience water running off the roof under normal conditions while running the AC. Some Oliver owners on the forum have replaced their Dometic AC's and report that the condensate runs off the roof and down the low side of the trailer because there wasn’t a option to connect the new AC to the internal Oliver drain system. After an initial inspection of the drain system, I leveled the Ollie side to side and front to back and began adding water to the condensate drain pan. The result was that some water ran off the roof on the curbside and some drained through the Oliver internal drain on the street side. That result caused me to consider that perhaps there was a blockage in the curbside drain tube, so I disconnected the curbside tubing at the tee fitting that separates the accessory cups and used a can of compressed air to verify the tube was clear and it was. Then I lowered the curbside side and plugged that tube and then added water to the main drain which resulted in water leaking onto the roof. The accessory drain cup and tubing connection is not really visible with the AC unit mounted but it did seem to me the water was leaking from that connection. So I ordered this kit and a second AC mounting gasket because the kit comes with one and two are required to raise the AC unit high enough to allow clearance for the drain cups. I then sat on the repair parts for months waiting for an opportunity to obtain access to an air conditioned shop a friend has access to. That happened this month and the repair is complete and the drains work as they should. It did require removing the AC and flipping it onto it’s back to remove and replace the old gaskets and drain cups and that did make the broken cup connector visible. Here are few pictures for everyone that stayed awake during this dissertation. This last picture makes the original break visible by the discoloration on the bottom and sides of the connector. The lighter portion of the break was on top and still connected when we flipped it over and snapped it off completely. Mossey

I am not sure of your skill level but it is a simple test to verify the thermostat switch. If you can find your thermostat as shown in the picture, remove both connectors and test for 12 volts on each connector. If you don’t have a multimeter or test light you can make a short jumper with a 6" piece of 12 or 14 AWG wire with male terminals on both ends and connect the 2 wires you removed from the thermostat together. If you need help, let us know. Mossey