Mike and Carol

On our way from Bardstown, KY to Fall Creek Falls State Park, TN we stopped by Hohenwald to see the new sales office and service area. We had a good visit with all the Oliver folks and were impressed with the new building. We stayed the night at Amber Falls Winery, a Harvest Host location. We’ve been to Amber Falls many times as a result of our visits to Hohenwald. We had a great tasting and a quiet evening in the vineyards. Camping in the vineyards. View from my chair. Filet Mignon with some Amber Falls Cab.

We usually stop at Clines Corners on our way to/from Durango. Maybe you can find a new pocket knife? 😎

I think your observations are right on. In the case of my son (38) and family I’m sure this venture into the RV world isn’t temporary. They relocated from Houston to Durango because they are big outdoor activity enthusiasts. Hiking, biking and skiing with an occasional Ironman triathlon thrown in. Now, instead of making day trips to local areas to hike and bike they can pack up and go for the entire weekend. Both kids also hike, bike and ski, so I believe they will be RVer’s for a long time! Also, the first few weekends they went out he had paper plates on his new Powerwagon and on his 27’ NoBo! Mike

Will be interested in how it goes without resvns. For July I’ve reserved two Colorado state parks and one USFS campground. Otherwise, we’ll be winging it. Mike

Congrats on your Oliver purchase! I haven’t done anything to my back Oliver light in over 5 years and it has never leaked. If it ain’t broke…. 😁 Hopefully everything is in good condition! Mike

Welcome! You’ve come to the right place to learn and have questions answered. Glad to have you here - Mike

Ignore the bubbles in your graphics. They will go away. I installed my front graphic as carefully as I could and still had a bunch of bubbles. They are all gone now. It’s the same if you get your car windows tinted, there will be some bubbles, but they go away. Mike

Hey Clare - welcome! We’ll be in Colorado the entire month of July. We go often since our son and family live in Durango. Mike

Hey Dan, welcome to the group! We really enjoyed our trip through Montana and plan to return. We’ll definitely check out your RV park! Mike

There is a spring arm that attaches to one of the arms, see the photo above that Mike highlighted. If you did not remove the arms from the gear assembly it should close correctly. If you removed the arms (that are connect by the hex shaft) from the gear assembly and didn’t reinstall it exactly in the same position that was in when removed that could be the problem.

Did you reposition the spring arm that connects to the cover? I recently rebuilt my fan when the gear housing self destructed. In order for the cover to open and close correctly the gear must be aligned correctly. If you merely disconnected the linkage then the gears should not have been affected. The spring arm needs to be connected to the support frame that raises and closes the cover. Here’s a pic with the arm attached to the frame that the cover attaches too after I put the new gear assembly in. This is the spring arm of my destroyed gear assembly. Here I’m holding the spring arm off the cover support. Spring arm disconnected from broken gear assembly.

I replaced my four old AGM’s with two BattleBorns in January. We just returned from our second long trip with them and I’m pretty happy with their performance. Even running the furnace at night, using lights, water pump, charging our devices, etc we never got below 80% by morning. Our solar generally had them back up near 100% by noon. I think you’ll be happy with yours. Mike

Looks good! Enjoy the trip home, avoid Memphis if you can! We like to stay at Clear Spring COE on the Texas side of Texarkana when we’re on our way home from TN. Mike

I did. They go on the receiver to help secure the hook? How do they attach? Why am I so clueless on this? 😂

My 1979 900 Turbo had the ignition switch on the floor, took some getting used to but was soon second nature.

Rubber grommets? Clue me in….

I’ve wondered the same. Seems like something quite a few folks would like. Mike

This is certainly a bad turn of events! I’m not sure what exactly happened. Is this the normal toilet or the composting toilet? Does “using” mean sitting on or flushing? Did Oliver give you any idea why this would happen? Any answers you can provide might help the rest of us avoid this situation. Thanks for posting this! Mike

Welcome and congrats on your July delivery! Look forward to meeting you out on the road somewhere. MIke

I may do the same since we just got back from our trip and all our stuff is in the middle of the garage floor after cleaning. Thanks to you - it was a great idea!

Sherry, good idea. It would be interesting to see what folks pack and why they carry what they do. We’ve been paring down what we take. Some of it depends on how we’re going to camp, hook ups or no hook ups, will we need the generator or not? We’ve increased our tow vehicle from a Tacoma to a half ton to a 3/4 ton, but haven’t really increased our cargo… in fact we’ve probably decreased what we bring. Mike

I’ve got a bunch that are broken off too.

Hey Steve and Cindy, welcome and congrats on your upcoming Oliver! I’m sure you’ll have questions these next months before you pick up so ask away! Our son and family lived for many years in Houston (Spring, then the Heights) before relocating to Durango. We also have a niece and nephew still in Houston. The number of Texas owners keeps increasing! Mike

Hi Lena, welcome to you and Tony. Are you Americans living in Sweden? I spent a winter up in northern Sweden in Boden way back in the 1900s! Beautiful country and very friendly people. We don’t full time, but go out for a month or two at a time. We’ve found our Elite II very comfortable doing that. We like the size because we can get into campgrounds and boondock sites that larger RVs can’t. We’re going on 6 years and we’ve found with regular maintenance our Oliver has been very reliable. That’s after 60,000 miles! Mike

$130K, ummmm…… It does look nice.