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Not related to the original problem, just posting to show that the universe has a sense of humor… After spinning, feeling, inspecting, and pretty much giving a spa treatment to the rear curbside tire, today on our final leg home in the middle of nowhere Texas between Quanah and Chillicothe my TPMS on the dashboard alerted to a low (you guessed it) rear curbside tire. Limped to the only gas station in Chillicothe and found a screw just outside the tread area. On returning home I took the tire to Discount Tire and confirmed my suspicion that it could not be patched. At least I proved that I (1) have a working TPMS and (2) have the tools to do a tire change in the field. @jd1923 at least it gave me the opportunity to remove the hub cover on that wheel. 🤦‍♂️

I can relate to that. My one for the flattop is yellow, now that you mention it looks awfully like a taser. 🙄

Or move the one out of my flattop cooking box to the truck cab 🙂. However, Rebecca would say I never met a tool that I didn't want two of, so.....(follows link). Agree on the Klein tools, can't count how many of their electrician screwdrivers I have. My electrical bag is pretty much all their stuff. Best recent thing, a USB meter when I was trying to figure out why the new charging port I put in the back was not working on my iPad. https://a.co/d/0i4XkaJ9 <- Shortened Amazon Link Love those - I have been considering taking off the plastic caps as I have lost two of the Oliver inserts and $50+ to put the company logo back on seems like money flowing the wrong way. Doesn't Oliver know I'm an influencer and they should give them to me for free? 🤣 🤣 🤣 Going to do one more day of spin test, give the lug nuts a torque, and happy Oliver camper our way back into Colorado today. Hopefully, all stays good till we get home, and there is nothing exciting to report tonight. Have an undercarriage day on my calendar before our next trip and will follow your video just to make sure everything is buttoned up before we head out for our next journey. Thanks for all the help!!

The plot thickens - or diffuses - I’m not sure which. @jd1923 I did the requested test this morning. Got no squeak on reverse spin. Could the trip from Dutch John UT to Rawlins WY gotten the brakes back in adjustment? I will test again when we leave the Cabela’s RV Park. I did visually inspect all four tires and did not observe any bald spots or scuffs. Just a higher than normal number of rocks in the treads from two nights on gravel. Possibly a self healing problem? I’m still planning to do a full undercarriage inspection up on jacks with wheels removed when we get home. Will update after tomorrows lift and spin check.

Yeah - me trying to be privacy sensitive to the previous owners since their names are on the full receipt and also finish the post before Rebecca finished cooking dinner. I'm on my (home) mac not my (work) win11 machine and the screenshot works differently. I copied the date and did not paste it. 6/18/2024 is the date of the work order. Sending you the unredacted workorder privately. Will open a ticket at Oliver. Will double check when I do the "pulse test" in the morning. I just had the tires pulled and TPMS units installed (pared with the Ford truck displays) and Discount Tire did not note any issues - and that's money to them 🙂 One note - part of the launch procedure for every launch is to do a rolling at idle trailer brake stop check using the manual traler brake on the Ford integrated brake contoller. I have been running at 7.0 - after picking up from Alcan the brakes seemed stronger so I reduced to 5.0 and achieved the same performace on the idle rolling brake check. All relative numbers, but want to make sure to put in all the data.

@jd1923 @Tom and Doreen not trying to columbo here - but this conversation made me think about the one thing we did get when we purchased the trailer - the service records. I went back and reviewed them (yay for cloud storage and scanning in all documents) and the plot thickens. There was this notation - and the sellers mentioned that Oliver had done axle work under warranty and replaced tires. See image below. I'm trying to figure out if right means curb, and if they mean all brakes and hubs? Is there possibly a link since it's the rear curb wheel that's having the problem, and that definitely rear regardless or left or right.

@jd1923 during our pre-launch procedures tomorrow morning (heading to Nebraska) I will lift the curb side and confirm constant or pulsing. I'm thinking pulsing, but I'm not sure enough not to test.

Unfortunately, the original owners were not "detail oriented." After looking at the trailer the first time, Rebecca (who had been talking to one member of the couple) and I (talking to the other one) compared notes and could not come up with a route that would take the stated mileage (5k) and the places visited. Yes - we were really in love with the idea of a LE II and based on our experience with our LE I figured the Oliver build quality could overcome any reasonable maintenance neglect. 🙂 I was wondering about the brakes - especially since (1) the axles had to be removed to put on the new springs and (2) the involved disconnecting and reconnecting the wires (assumption since the brake wires have really well applied new connections which look like Alcan quality work). When were brakes inspected - not since we have had the trailer. Need to do that when we get back to Dallas. I'm sure someone has done an excellent tutorial on it. Suggestions welcome in case my forum search skills are not up to par.

Additional information - Temp this morning is 40 F degrees in Rawlins WY so I have time to track the cycles of the VarioHeat while enjoying morning coffee. (1) Re-reading the VarioHeat manual from our Oliver year (2023) it appears that the "The appliance always starts at the lowest setting. If this is not sufficient to achieve the desired temperature in the vehicle, the appliance switches to a higher operating level after about 5 minutes." (2) The "basketball" sound appears to occur more frequently at the state transitions between the low to high and the high to low, not on the off to low state transition. (3) The sound seems to come from the outside wall area rather than from the point where the actual VarioHeat sits under the curb side twin bunk. After the completion of the laundry sorting process this morning I will pull the bunk apart and see if I can isolate further.

Thanks @jd1923 - We were outside the recall numbers on the water heater - now I have something else to look for (LOL) 🙂 However, this is the air heater rather than the water heater. Same manufacturing (lack of) procedures could apply. I'm going to try to find any diagrams to of the overall system so I can possibly get an idea of whats in the airflow path that could stick / fail and cause the thumping noise.

Yep - me again. Reset 2.0 / Hull 1365 2023 LE II. We are week into a two week loop, and I seem to be finding all the weird noises in the trailer. This one is the furnace. Rebecca describes it as "someone bouncing a basketball." When the heater first comes on - regardless of just being turned on or cycling based on the temp, there is a metalic flapping sound that repeats for a minute to two minutes under the curb side bed. It sounds like something flapping up and down to me, Rebecca is sticking with her basketball metaphor. It does not happen everytime, but I can't establish any type of pattern so far. Sometimes it happens as the furnace starts, just now it make two thumps as the furnace shut down. Any thoughts or suggestions on what to check welcome. It's a maintenance / laundry day tomorrow, so good time to look at it.

Started calling at 7:30 this morning. Made three calls before I realized that in the real world it's Saturday.🤦‍♂️ Will try again on Monday.

Test completed. All wheels turned silently, except the curb rear wheel. On that wheel forward rotation is silent, rear rotation (as in backing up the trailer) generates a dragging squeaking noise from the wheel. Performed this test on all four wheels, including the curb rear indicated above. No movement, and I gave it my best linebacker effort. Did not perform this test given that I had isolated it in the first test. @jd1923 based on my understanding of your troubleshooting matrix, this is pointing towards bearings. I did get a photo of the label on the rear axle and included it below. (I also took a shot of the bulldog shock attachments while I was down there. Thoughts? It looks like they were reinstalled a bit tighter than I had them originally. May pull and replace with new rubber bumpers when we get home. Given that we are second owners on Hull 1364, should I contact Dexter or Oliver about the potential warranty claim? Or am I out of luck on the axle waranty?

Would be pure speculation. When we sold our previous LE I, the new owner got spreadsheets and the handwritten logbook that's like an airplane's log. We didn't receive anything like that, just some vague contradictory statements about how little the trailer had traveled and the distant places that they had visited. Based on several other items (shocks, refrigerator, plumbing) I have my opinions and speculations. I have tried to go through (with the help of the smart people on this forum) each system and bring it up to better than specs. Bulldog shocks, new refregerator, etc. I also try to give back with designs for installing the GasStop units on an LE I and will eventually get around to posting my refrigerator fan design that has a temp sensor to run the exhaust fans when needed. The reason we purchased an Oliver is the community, the bunch of experienced travelers and engineers that will see a panic message on a Saturday afternoon and start throwing out helpful and thougtful troubleshooting tips. Besides the incredible engineering and reliability of our trailers, it's the community that sets our Oliver apart from the Grand Design sitting across from us and the Apex next door. Wow - this response got off topic. Road brain, or possibly the wide open spaces of Wyoming out the window.

Reset 2.0 (Hull 1364) just spent its first night (with us) in Utah. The Flaming Gorge area is absolutely beautiful. This trips pass list so far includes: Raton Pass (NM) 7,834 ft Monarch Pass (CO) 11,312 ft Douglas Pass (CO) 8,205 ft