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  1. Hey Forum Pals,

    I love all your comments. Thanks for the support, and it's great to have my rig back. Hopefully I will be on the road again in a month or so.  I have been looking at the Proven Industries lock that Snake River suggests.  My rig is about 30 miles away at the repair shop, so I can't easily look at it, but if my fading geriatric memory serves, it seems that the bulldog hitch is held to the frame by a single bolt. Does anyone know if the Proven Industries hitch lock covers this bolt or could the thieves simply unbolt the hitch and quickly attach their own to the rig.  It also looks like Proven Industries also makes a killer wheel lock. Any one have experience with it?

    This theft has turned me a bit paranoid, and I have looked at a few videos of how easy it is to freeze (liquid nitrogen) or pick many of the low to moderately priced wheel locks.  I'd love to hear more people's thoughts on security.  Obviously the best is indoors and locked up, but I am not in a location where I can manage that.  Any one have experience with removable bollards in front of the rig?  I suspect that I will go with multiple items. Hitch lock, wheel lock or two, tracker, and perhaps pulling the pin to the brake locks so they are always on.  It's getting a bit over the top, but...

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  2. Hoorah. Ollie lives! Stolen rig returned!  Police found it behind a stolen tow vehicle behind a locked gate (locks cut) in a rancher's field less than a mile from the police station.  It was stuck in the mud and two people who had been living in it had gone out to get a friend to help them get out of the mud when the rancher arrived, and the thieves raced away.  Police didn't catch them, but they did find identifying evidence (jail release papers) and opioid detox meds from the jail pharmacy for one of them. Of course, most of my gear was stolen, and a lot of their stuff was in it. Thank goodness for the fiberglass inner hull which will make it much easier to clean/sanitize.  There's work to do: negotiating with insurance, broken off stabilizer jack to replace, spray paint on the hull, stolen spare tire and fiberglass cover, destroyed door lock, wrecked entry stair and scratches on the hull, plus cleaning, fumigating and replacing contents, but we will be on the road again this spring and summer.

    So here's my question: fourteen years in my driveway in a big city, and never messed with before. Reasonable quality hitch lock and motion detector lights.  What all do you folks recommend as security systems. You can bet I am paranoid, and short of trying to build an enclosure, what do you folks do to keep your beloved rigs safe?

     

    Thanks, Angler, Hull #27

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  3. ScubaRx,

     

    Your answer was inspired. After removing all the plates, cups, glasses and other needed stuff in the slider above the microwave compartment, I found that a red wire marked "roof" had pulled loose from the "accessory" switch. Pushed it back on to the circuit board and the fans both work. I'm now in the process of fashioning a cover for the back of the switches to keep this from happening again. A follow up question for you please: in the bundle of wires that goes to the switches here, there is a yellow wire marked "ground" that doesn't attach to anything. It is equipped with a round shaped connector, not a flat one like the fan wire was. We don't have a microwave (almost exclusively use the Oliver for dry camping) and wonder if this wire ought to have home somewhere or is it orphaned due to our lack of microwave?

     

    Doug,

     

    I agree, the folks at Oliver are always helpful, but ScubaRx's answer beat the factory for time.

     

    Thanks all,

     

    Angler

  4. Help needed from techies. Our exhaust fan suddenly died on us. It's the rain sensing Fantastic Vent. Yes the fuse is fine. I pulled the fan and see a white and a black wire coming out of the space between the shells and running to the fan. When I stick a voltmeter across these two wires I don't get any current flow. Does anybody know how the Oliver power runs to the fan? What is the connection on the circuit board as none of the fuses there seem blown either. Any help is appreciated.

     

    Thanks,

    Angler

  5. One year plus in our Oliver and going great. Very few problems and none of major consequence. We've put about 6,000 miles on so far and will be headed out on a 2,500 -3,000 miles trip in two weeks. We're headed into fairly rough terrain, lots of gravel roads and possibly pretty wet too. Oliver recommends repacking wheel bearings every 6K. Any one done this themselves - how bad a job is it? How do you get the dust cover off? Or do you advise finding a local brake shop that can do it?

     

    Thanks

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  6. Well we took the plunge and ordered an Oliver that we'll pick up in Tennessee mid June. We're ready getting the TV set up. The TV is a 1996 Toyota 4-runner and have added transmission cooler and proportional brake controller. We're set with a class III receiver and getting ready to order hitch and ball. Does any one know the spec for the height of the center of the ball from the ground to fit an Oliver with 4 inch lift and 15 inch wheels?

     

    Any thoughts or suggestions about the need for additional suspension on the TV?

     

    Thanks all.

  7. I've been searching for fabric for the upholstery in the trailer that is being built for us. I'm not crazy about the limited choices shown in the Oliver photos. Anyone have ideas about websites or venders for tough, good-looking fabric, about 15 yards? Any experience, either positive or negative, with types of fabric?

     

    Thanks.

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