Evening light show over the Alabama Hills.
Heard from Oliver Company yesterday. The wiring aspect is almost complete and tested. The smaller things we requested are done. What remains are two items and final testing that must be done outside for the solar after these are finished. First the furnace that fried is on back order and might not make it before the middle of April. Instead they recommend putting the furnace that goes into the current Oliver line - it requires a couple of modifications but they have it, it is a bit more efficient and has a smaller footprint but more BTUs. About the same price.
The second issue is the brake assembly. The labor to repair all of that is half of a new whole axle with better bushings, sealed bearings (no more repacking every so many miles) and new shocks.
We agreed to spend the extra on the new axle assembly and go with the new furnace that they have in stock. The estimate for completion is still 3/31 and we are planing to pick up the trailer on 4/4, a Monday and then spend the night at the Oliver camping factory site before moving to one on the Natchez Trace (18 miles away) for a second night of testing .
We have greatly scaled back our travel after and plan to visit Mammoth Cave, Camp Nelson and a battlefield all in KY, head to Knoxville and then home.
