Patriot

Bill, Northern tool might have what you are looking for. https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_tires-wheels+hand-truck-utility-wheels

We traveled last summer and stayed at 22 Campgrounds through 16 states and never carried or even missed having a tote tank. Honestly never really needed it. I guess we are spoiled by full hook ups and CG with dump stations.

We received manuals with our 2020 on delivery day. They travel with us!

Steve, We look forward to this! The more we learn the better it gets! -David

I spoke with Diana at Calmark regarding cleaning the Calmark cover and she sent this attached info to me. And yes we have the black streaks aka air pollution on our cover as well. She said not to place the cover in a washing machine as it will remove the chemicals or special additives that help with repelling water. I attached the tips and info which she emailed to me today. I hope this helps. 887450757_TipsandInfomationforyourCalMarkCover.pdf

Our 2020 did not come with a bonding plug.

The short answer is yes. Here a little helpful info - https://www.rvtravel.com/rv-electricity-companion-bonding-plug/

Mark and Cyndi, Congratulations on your new rig and most of all to good health! May all your adventures be happy, safe miles and smiles! A very nice choice in TV vehicle as well! 😊 Onward! - David

Foy, Amazing work, you sir are a fine craftsman! I hope to meet you at the upcoming rally. -David

Congrats on your long well worth it wait! We look forward to seeing you at the Rally! Safe Travels!

Ollie time! Congrats and happy travels!

Bill, I am very happy with these “Rock Stoppers” they are made by Livelymachine.com and are designed Super Duty specific. I don’t know if they fabricate Rock Stoppers for other trucks. I can report they work excellent and protect the front of our Ollie and keep it clean. If anyone has questions PM me.

Our country’s electrical grid/infrastructure is ancient and extremely vulnerable to terrorist attack. Or better said it just old and very out dated and would take very little effort by bad actors to take it down. The occasional peak summer power outages resulting in rolling black outs especially in west coast states is noteworthy. (Thankfully we don’t live there). It seems the cart is before the horse as a new secure and sustainable electrical infrastructure should be a first priority before attempting to over load the existing ancient electrical grid we all presently rely on. Interestingly enough Fords CEO went to congress recently to ask/beg for go green EV tax incentives to attract buyers to new EVs is a bit telling. It’s hard to imagine ICE going away anytime soon. Interesting times for sure. On a more humorous note…😂 I will be ordering one soon.

Nan, I bet it’s going to look beautiful! 👍🏻

I special ordered the 10 mil material directly from XPEL, I think it was a 5x10’ roll, to cover specific areas on our Ollie. I supplied the material to our installer who cut and installed it. I honestly can’t remember exactly what the install cost was for the Ollie. At the time as we also had our TV done, so it was combined price. I would have to review my file. Your best bet is to consider getting an estimate from your local XPEL dealer. I can tell you it’s not cheap. XPEL 10 mil is a special order PPF but it really protects the gel coat when installed properly. Find a really experienced well trained installer that does high end cars and you will likely be happy with his work.

We recently had our new F350 Super Duty completely covered in XPEL 8 mil PPF (paint protection film) and had XPEL’s Ceramic Fusion Plus applied over the PPF. The results are amazing with regard to an amazing shine that pops, shedding water and ease of washing the truck. We have had XPEL PPF installed on all of our cars and trucks over the last decade It’s held up extremely well. We even had areas of the front of our Ollie covered in 10 mil PPF. It’s all about the install. https://www.xpel.com/ceramic-coating-fusion-plus

Sent you a PM on a dash cam I recently purchased and will use. It’s a perfect fit for the Super Duty if you have the auto dimming rear view mirror.

Just saw this note you left. My installer use to install 3m but found it would with some installs begin to orange peel and yellow after a few years. He no longer installs 3m. XPEL has a 10 yr install and warranty on fading or peeling or orange peeling if professionally installed. Just thought I would mention this if your still considering p/p. So far our 10 mil XPEL on the Oliver has held up excellent.

This recall does NOT apply to the 6.7 diesel Super Duty Trucks only the gassers. The diesels have steel drive shafts the gassers have aluminum drive shafts. Please see the attached. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/ford-recalls-heavy-duty-pickups-drive-shafts-fracture-83082755?fbclid=IwAR3DhopMgVVdkJng_mXAOC4ZgmKcz664vyVbiUaN-IbbKLKZGFayqkzccUs

Just saw this today. So glad we ordered and purchased ours in 2020 wow. This is great news for future resales of really well maintained used Olivers.

Bill, I believe your new 2022 Tundra Crew Max will be a fine tow vehicle and we are looking forward to seeing yours! The expert key board “nay sayers” and “joy stealers” for some reason seem to take a level of pleasure in raining on the parade of how some folks choose to spend their money. Quite frankly some of the needless negative vibes on this forum continues to really get old. This could reflect why some owners just “ghost” the forum and don’t engage in posting. A few thoughts - If you don’t have something decent, kind, helpful and really positive to add in comments maybe just pause and please don’t feel compelled to respond, maybe use a little restraint…or better yet just keep scrolling! We are all in this together! Happy Camping! -Patriot

A neat video about “Andon” - why Toyota builds perfect trucks. I had heard about ANDON before, but this provided much more insight and I like this guys YouTube info as he seems to provide pretty accurate information and has previously worked for Toyota in Japan. It’s worth a watch if you have not viewed it. I have heard that Honda also uses ANDON in their production line. Sadly according to this gent there are quite a few auto manufactures that know about ANDON but just don’t use it. Go figure?

We mesquite smoked a brined and lemon pepper dry rubbed 7# roaster in our Traeger pellet grill. Enjoyed a few sides and I actually skipped desert which was a pumpkin cheese cake. Oh the crispy bacon!

We really enjoy their videos and have learned a lot about where we hope to visit someday. Did you get to meet them?

A worthy replacement!