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Just returned from a trip to Michigan (not towing) through West Virginia and Ohio with over 1400 miles and the pickup got over 24MPG. Read every post I could find on a Tundra forum today, confident Toyota will solve the issue.

John, Congrats to you and Chris!

Since Toyota plans to have a solution by late July, we still want to continue towing Ollie on local Blue Ridge Parkway trips while waiting for Toyota's solution. From my information gathered so far, failure rate is much less than 1% of 102,000 Toyota and Lexus vehicles.

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No failures with 30,000 miles so far on our 2022 Tundra. Changed the engine oil at 1,000 miles, then 5,000, and 10,000 miles trying to get rid of debris from engine manufacture. Also changed the differential oil at 1,000 miles and found metal shavings on the drain plug/magnet that was larger than expected. 😐

Found a Drag Race Car shop in Lincolnton, NC to weld Ollie's frame earlier this year. Found an engine builder, machine shop, with engine dynamometer (Dyno) this morning at Iron Station NC to do the machine shop work on Ollie's aluminum wheel mount. This area is close to Charlotte Speedway with many shops involved with NASCAR. The owner of this shop used to build race engines at Joe Gibbs Racing. He had a low boost/supercharged Marine engine on his Dyno this morning. Removed the aluminum wheel mount yesterday and the machine shop now has Ollie's wheel mount for modification.

Here's how the modified allen wrench fits in the top two allen head 1/2" bolts in the basement due to clearance issues between the inner hull & inner aluminum plate for removing elastic lock nuts that secure the aluminum wheel mount on the outer hull:

Yep, inflation at work! This is the first time I have purchased Goodyear Endurance ST tires even though I own two utility and one motorcycle trailers in addition to Ollie. Our original spare tire is a P215/60R/16 when other owners have a taller P215/70R/16 on their 2015 & 2016 LE2 and the new ST225/75R/15, about an 1.1" larger in diameter (using your handy calculator), taller 15" Goodyear Endurance on the right. The new Goodyear Endurance ST225/75R/15 fits easily into the original housing, like Oliver said, Two problems so far, the aluminum wheel mount needs to be moved up about 1/4" to 3/8" for the new tire to clear the bottom portion of the fiberglass housing. Planning to take the aluminum wheel mount to a local machine shop to have the existing holes milled lower to reposition the new tire higher to clear the fiberglass housing. The other problem is getting an allen wrench & allen ball driver in the two top bolt heads to hold while removing outer elastic nuts securing the tire aluminum mount. Had to cut part of an allen wrench off to clear the hull, it works too. Letting Oliver know what I found, so far.

I have been doing research lately and found generally 16"X6" 6 lug/5.5 spacing aluminum trailer wheels are a more expensive than 15"X6" 6 lug/5.5 spacing aluminum trailer wheels of the same model & manufacturer from the same vendor. On the other hand the ST225/75R/15 Goodyear Endurance trailer tires (MSRP $199 ea) are not much lower in cost compared to good quality LT225/75R/16 tires. Walmart had Goodyear Endurance ST225/75R/15 on sale for $187, Discount Tire matched that price. Discount Tire Denver NC told me some good news while there today. They said they will install LT tires on trailers as long as the maximum load capacity of the LT tire when multiplying number of tires meets or exceeds the trailer's Gross weight, but they would have to see the trailer's documented GVW. One of the first 2010 Oliver LE2 had 15" wheels/tires. For several years many folks called ST tires "may pops" because they never knew when they would pop. Goodyear Endurance ST tire made in USA is a great quality trailer tire.

You're Welcome! The 15" Sendel S20 wheel and Goodyear Endurance ST225/75R/15 tire are coming from Discount Tire. They have the tire on hand, but the wheel will not arrive until 6/1. They will price match, so all I need to do is let them know who I can buy from at a lower price and they will match the price. 🙂

ScubaRx gave Oliver's reasons here: This thread is a good read, one of the earliest LE2s had 15" tires and LE2 spare tires are discussed, too. From information in this thread and over internet Goodyear Endurance ST tires have a good reputation. There has been a couple cases mentioned on this forum that Discount Tire will currently only install ST tires on travel trailers, when in the past they would install LT tires on trailers like they did on our LE2. I want a higher load capacity spare tire, Goodyear Endurance 225/75R/15 maximum load capacity 2833 pounds, because our original spare tire is a 215/60R/16 has a 1521 pound maximum load capacity. The full size LT 225/75R/16 is too large to fit in some of the early 2015 & 2016 LE2 spare tire housings.

John, Always wanted a higher load capacity spare tire for Ollie that would fit in the original spare tire housing. Will post results. Thanks,

My spare tire is 9 years old, so started researching what tire to replace the original 16" spare tire with one that fits in the original spare tire housing. On our 2015 LE2 Ollie the original spare tire is a 215/60R/16 SL load range tire. The other 4 trailer tires are LT225/75R/16 E tires. Understand some other LE2 owners have P215/70R/16 tires. Around 2017 (please correct me if I have this wrong) the spare tire fiberglass cover was modified to accommodate the full size 225/75R/16 tire/wheel assembly. Recently, Oliver started installing 15" wheels on LE2 Olivers mounting Goodyear Endurance ST225/75R/15 E tires. Went back to an old thread here posted by Steve about Oliver's move to LE2 15" ST tires. Started thinking 🙃 (that's trouble for me sometimes) if a 215/70R/16 will fit in the original spare tire housing, will the newer 15" tire, ST225/75R/15 E fit in the original spare tire housing. Contacted Oliver service and they said the ST225/75R/15 E tire will fit inside of my original spare tire housing on my 2015 LE2. Started doing some research and learned the following: Original LT tire: LT225/75R/16E Tire height: 29.28'' Section Width: 8.86'' Maximum load capacity: 2679 pounds New tire used on LE2: Goodyear Endurance ST225/75R/15E: Tire Height: 28.28'' Section Width: 8.86'' Maximum load capacity: 2833 pounds Tire used that fits in 2015/2016 LE2 spare tire housings seen in two different threads: 215/70R/16 Tire Height: 27.86'' Section Width: 8.46'' Maximum load capacity: 1764 pounds The 2015 spare tire fiberglass housing ID (inside diameter) is around 28 7/8" and around 9 1/2" deep. It looks like the ST225/75R/15E will fit if the tire/wheel is centered. Couple days ago ordered a Sendel S20 15"X6", six lug trailer wheel with 5.5" spacing and a Goodyear ST225/75R/15E tire mounted. http://sendelwheel.com/wheels/s20t.html https://www.goodyear.com/en_US/tires/endurance-trailer-tire/24464.html Load range/Load index explained: https://www.discounttire.com/learn/load-range-load-index I normally keep Ollie's spare tire in the TV pickup bed instead of in the spare tire cover, but still want a tire/wheel that fits in the spare tire housing, will see. Plan to experiment with learning how to put a nice finish on the original aluminum spare wheel before eventually polishing all of the original wheels, too.

John, Added state, hull #, tow vehicle, and first names! 🙂 Bill

Johnny and Juanita, Congrats on retirement and your Ollie!!!!!!!!!!! Looking forward to seeing your Ollie photos!

Found this Dexter EZ Flex installation instructions: https://www.dexteraxle.com/user_area/content_media/raw/059-A45-00E-ZFlexInstructionSheet.pdf

Used through bolts, lock nuts, and backing plate when installing the Furrion 10A solar port. Later modified the 10A Furrion Port to install a 20A Zamp port in the existing Furrion port, working great, too.

Absolutely beautiful reflection in the 3rd shot!!!!!!!!

Both shock's rods are 3/8" and Monroe barrel 1.64" OD & Bulldog barrel 1.66" OD, probably pistons are close to the same diameter depending on barrel wall thicknesses in each. The Monroe shock weighs 2 pounds 5 ounces and the Bulldog shock weighs 2 pounds 14 ounces. Have not seen any oil leaks with the Monroe shocks.

We used to spend an extra $5 per cylinder for better quality seals during cylinder manufacture to greatly increase the life of industrial hydraulic cylinders.

When we have condensation between the hulls, have seen more condensation between the hulls at the rear Oliver sign. Have not seen much condensation between the hulls in the area where you see water dripping out.

Galway Girl , hope you don't mind my posting photos of the Bulldog and original Monroe shocks for a physical comparison, we were curious if they were different builds. Here's the original Monroe shock next to the new Bulldog shock. The rod cover is longer on the Bulldog and rod end of cylinder is built differently, they are different builds.

Going to install the Bulldogs in the morning, will post some photos.

Discount Tire replaced our Ollie's LT 16" tires with Cooper LT over two years ago without issues, but John Davies said Discount Tire would not replace his Ollie's tires less than two years ago, assume it was LT tires. Here's a 10/22 thread about Oliver changing to 15" Goodyear ST Tires.