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Carl, IMO, you're spot-on, brother! Modifications, upgrades, and otherwise enhancements outlined in various levels of detail in this forum are for information purposes and general "better" understanding of what the OTT can do during our collective travels. That said, our "collective travels" are widely different across the spectrum of owners. Everyone has their own "style" of camping with their Ollie - some fancy established RV parks with full connections for the majority of their travels, others prefer full-on off-grid boondocking for most of their trips. The rest of the owners likely fall in between these extremes. So, depending on what "style" of camping you prefer, would dictate which mods suit your purpose of camping. But that's what's so phenomenal about this forum, there's such a wide spectrum of experience and expertise here, one can choose the mods fitting their camping style the best. The discussion about DC2DC chargers are such an example. It's not a "one size fits all" issue, if you catch my drift....

Same here.

@Geronimo John's description of the wardrobe shelves is correct. Additionally, the additional "always needed" real estate for organizational efforts hit the mark. Both June and Diane are thrilled with the space for other stuff instead of a "throw all" space as @Jason Foster accurately notes above. This became a "Happy Wife -- Happy Life" Project immediately upon completion.... The white milk crate is our "wine cellar" still on the floor, and the wardroom door is backed with a hanging organizer for ready service items (Windex, misc. cleaners, more shoes, suntan lotion, etc.). The upper shelf houses our airfryer/convection oven strapped down with black tubular nylon and footman loops rather than having it banging around in the truck bed or bouncing around on the floor of the wardrobe. For scaling, those are a couple pairs of my size 13D shoes and D's Uggs on the lower shelf:

16MAY25 -- 0634, Casablanca settled in at Pancho Villa SP near La Paloma, Old Mexico.... Magnus pulling the first watch:

@routlaw: It is likely the camera angle, but your leaf spring looks like its flattening out....

We should recommend this to Scott Oliver as a "Heavy Duty" option for whatever he has on the drawing board for the next line of trailers... Or even better, scrap the Dexters and go with Curt Adventure Edition indipendent suspension (but with disc brakes):

This question is not meant to insult, but did you ensure the keyed allen bolt that tightens the stainless steel ball on the 1Up shank is loosened? If not, you'll not be able to insert the shank.... A picture of vernier calipers measuring the ID of the Oliver receiver would be very helpful.

@Ollie-Haus: Many thanks for showing this hose to me, @Geronimo John, and @Patriot at the rally! Definitely a no-brainer "must have" item - especially for space saving feature. I'm tired of wrestling with that stiff white Camco hose when rolling it up. Headed to Home Dumbo today for 2 of these.... We'll do an OPS-check this weekend down south. 2 is 1 and 1 is none!

Headed to Old Mexico Thursday, we'll be walking the border crossing at Columbus over to La Paloma. Pancho Villa State Park is still having issues with their septic system so there's been no dumping allowed for almost a year now -- no biggie, as we'll only stay for 3 nights. Pix of the knuckleheads to follow, FYI...

That's in our back yard!

Welcome to the Oliver Family! Don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or challenges y’all may be experiencing— there’s ample expertise on the forum to help sort them out. best regards,

Congrats, Tony and Rhonda! We’re also 2017 owners - they’re wonder rigs and I’m sure you’ll enjoy the roominess of your OTT over the 4 Wheel slide-in…. Welcome to the Oliver Family and hope to meet you down the road soon! Best regards,

Not really "Wild" but it was an "Adventure" and it is an Ollie... This was taken down on the beach at Rocky Point in Old Mexico a couple years back...

Yesterday, a random Ollie is spotted negotiating the turns northbound on the beautiful Natchez Trace Parkway -- just wondering where they're headed???

That's a bummer, Mike -- looking forward to catching up with you and Carol. Best regards, brother!

Lance, you will be sorely missed, brother!

Bill, Concur 100% -- I've operated in some of the nastiest places imaginable and in terrain rugged enough to give only a few hours of SAT commo time. Back in '08, I found myself and my colleagues between a couple high passes in the Hindu Kush -- we had to get a sick member of our party out of the area but it wasn't going to be by foot. We needed MEDEVAC air assets to get him to safety. Fortunately, timing was good and I was able to contact support via our Iridium SAT phone. The high terrain (>18k') only allowed a short window of commo -- EVAC arrived in time and all was good. Can't say enough about having the right kit for the planned adventure you may be contemplating. 'Nuf said.

A couple of Ollies spotted at a Cracker Barrel somewhere in NW Alabama last night -- they were both pointing to an eastbound destination.

All excellent points here. We used to have an RO system at our old house, primarily to eliminate the 0.010ppm arsenic that our shared well had. Larger RVs can easily rig an RO system because they've got the real estate available, the OTT, IMO, just doesn't have the available space. We run like @Mike and Carol with a Travel Berkey and as Mike mentioned, we too will switch the activated charcoal filters over to the ceramic filters once they've been exhausted.

Same here, Ron - added the 30A outlet to the west side of the "man-cave" for visitors to use when here. Our cave is energized with a 75A sub-panel that powers up the shop equipment as @jd1923 mentioned above. The main panel is configured with 200A service, which is more than ample to meet our needs. The 12.5kW whole house standby GENSET gets us by famously during power outages. So far, so good - no popping breakers.

GJ: You may have some competition HERE . Consider having an OTT patch made up for the RHS!!!

@Tideline77: We installed the AirLift system on our Tundra a couple years ago and it's been operating as designed ever since. No squat, good ride either towing, hauling, or normal daily driving. Looking into the onboard inflation upgrade -- we're just carrying a bicycle pump for now.... No biggie. The AirLift price point was about the same at the advertised RAS cost, FYI.

Hey, Ralph; This is, at most, a 3-4 hr job at a service shop like Alcan, IMO. I changed my springs "solo" - it took a full day. However, when I changed my axles out at Hohenwald last year, "DeeBo" and I started around 8:30am and we were at lunch by noon that day. I'm sure Lew and his team at Alcan would have the springs done in less time. Plan on getting there the day prior to your appointment and you'll be on the road by early afternoon. Good luck!

Sorry to hear you're not going to make it to Gville this year, Bill. You've still got "dibs" on the awning weather strip!

Same here.... We were there in 2021, definitely one of our favs!