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Thanks all - I actually did find a mobile tech back at our home base that quoted me $280 for the visit - diagnose - and fix if no extra parts are required.Scheduling for Friday so I will update this with his findings. Hopefully this is all fixable and my frustration will turn to delight. Nope - and yes being that refrigeration is not my wheelhouse you are likely correct. I just read all the stuff that you real engineers do on the forum and convince myself that a computer “engineer” can do it to. 🤣 However, since we have an Oliver I never sleep in a Holiday Inn so should be careful with that. I did stop a Chinese threat actor in 8 minutes last week, so that counts for something…. 😁

I guess my concern is that getting a mobile tech to come look at it will cost what a new one would, and then I would still have to buy the new one. (Facepalm) Some people are scared of spiders, I’m scared of hiring skilled professionals 😆

When we purchased the trailer the previous owners included the Chinese knockoff fridge freezer cooler that they used to keep food. As LE I owners we didn’t think much about that since we were used to the Tri Fuel and the small amount of space. We should have tested the fridge more. Our first trip to Colorado we pretty quickly learned to not keep anything we expected to be food safe in the Isotherm.

Unfortunately we purchased 1364 from the original owner, so no factory warranty for us. Jason looked at it when we were at the Texas Rally last year and suggested possibly putting additional insulation in the wall behind the fridge. I also got advice on recharging it. I thought I would have to put in a pin valve but I found the artfully concealed recharge port under the shrink tubing and tape. I can’t even find anyone who will work on the thing (as hard as it is for me to admit I am out over my skies on this). I called the Isotherm dealer in Dallas who basically said they did not do service but if we wanted to roll the dice again and buy a new one they would be happy to help. Currently it’s 77 in the evening here in Central Texas. The camper interior is 78.2 and the fridge is 60. The high point for the day (84 degrees high) was 62 - not sufficient to keep food safe. The overnight low on the fridge interior was 52. I must admit I am stumped.

I have recharged, insulated, etc etc this Isotherm “not a fridge” in hull 1364. Still not a fridge. At best it takes 10 degrees off ambient. Has anyone replaced the Isotherm with a Dometic or any other fridge that works? What model and mods were needed? Need to figure this out because hauling a extra dometic cooler to replace the fridge when the weather is above freezing is getting old.

We just took the brackets off the wall and stored them 🙂 Didn’t let the anchors bother us. You could use a white square plate and a white flat head screw to fill it.

Tucumcari makes a great spot to stop. Before and after attached - our first fiberglass trailer (Happier Camper HC-1) and our “last” fiberglass trailer (Reset 2.0 LE II #1364)

Managed to complete the job, as well as running the ford remote camera cable through the channel on the edge of the frame and greasing the zerks on the street side. It warmed up nicely yesterday, until the second part of the article air mass came through in the afternoon :-). Glad I did it though, the front street side shock fell apart in my hand. No piston movement at all. The remaining three all were various degrees of bad - wither compressed with one finger push or limited force. Compared to the new ones you could definitely feel the difference. Road testing Reset 2.0 after putting everything back together showed a distinct reduction in “wallow” on the uneven roads in our neighborhood. Two more projects off the whiteboard…

28 degrees this morning in Duncanville Tx. I will likely pull out the tent heater from our tent camping days and try to create a little heat bubble where I am working 🥶 But you are correct @jd1923 in the winter we long for heat and in the summer we wish for the cool. We are going to be camping out in Stonewall Tx this weekend (Texas Hill Country) and projections are for the low 20’s last time I looked. I have a feeling the warmest place will be in the Ollie, as the event we are attending is planned for an unheated barn filled with thousands of highly flammable barrels. Can’t exactly throw in a few propane patio heaters for warmth 💥

I had taken photos of our original equipment shocks when I last did the zerks, and showed them to Jason at the Texas Rally. He confirmed that I needed to replace those based on the photos. So today - in the one warm day in the foreseeable future - I started the project. Took forever to catch the Bulldog HD shocks available, but I finally got them. Started on the curb side, immediately ran into frozen nuts on the bottom of each shock. Penetrating oil, loosening spray, tapping with a chisel — none of those worked. Finally brought out the trusty angle grinder with a metal cutting blade to make the problem go away. Once the old shocks were out of the way placing the new ones were easy. Tribute to @rideadeuce I had to make sure I installed with the labels faced. Unfortunately, with the delays on the frozen bolts I only finished the first half of the job. So tomorrow I get to see how well I do with the street side in close to freezing temps. I will be envying you folks with Ollie barns …

That’s one of out “On the list” We have done the southwest sections on our trip with our Happier Camper to California. Looking at doing the section from Oklahoma to Chicago next.

We love that park. Camped there with our Happier Camper but want to go back.

I keep a very inexpensive yoga mat rolled up in the front bin for work under the trailer and for Anderson hitch chain adjustments. Since those almost always occur in gravel sites it keeps me from starting the day looking like I crawled through chalk and mud on the way to the truck. 🤣

End of the faucet (your option #2) The faucet itself is great - I'm just not sure if the water dispersal pattern out of the end of the nozzle is "normal" (i.e. working as designed) or if I have something adjusted wrong. Edited my original post as horizontal is too strong - more like a 45 degree cone...

So we upgraded Reset 2.0 (Hull #1634 '23 Model LE II) with the High Sierra Faucet. After receiving the adapter from High Sierra, we used the new faucet this weekend for the first time. Our experience was that the open aerator sent water all over the sink, putting the "wet" in wet bath. I'm sure that would make a great shower (short trip for Thanksgiving so not used as a shower this trip) but how do you keep it from soaking the sink when you are using it for hand washing or wetting the tooth brush. Even turning the water way down, it seems like more water goes horizontally than vertically. Edit: In all fairness it's more like a 45-degree conical pattern spreading out from the screenless aerator, but that hitting the sloping sides of the stainless-steel sink in the '23 model ends up getting the user and the sink pretty wet. All suggestions welcome, especially those that start with "You are doing it wrong..." 🙂