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Installing AVC Rig Wall To Ceiling Panel Support
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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream tonight we've got a lot of stuff on the list to cover and uh we're going
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to try to make it about an hour Stream So the stuff that we want to cover we're just going to get right into it we're
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going to continue talking about the ecoflow um setup and we're moving on
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from the floor so we're actually going up to the ceiling today but that ecoflow
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uh Second alternator cable I've got that on order and then I'm waiting to hear back from uh tech
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support just to make sure that that's something it I'm sure it's going to be something that we can do but uh you know
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it's always good to double check with the people who made it um SO waiting on that back to get back with that um but
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we're switching to the van ceiling and the wiring um and then taking down the
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panels so if we can hop to this camera so what we have is our ABC rig ceiling
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panels and we've got three of them we're going to take those down and we're going to install some support members that go
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on the left and right hand side so if you guys are doing a ceiling in your van
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and you want to cut your own panels out but you have a hard time uh transitioning from the ceiling to the
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side walls there's a product that ABC makes it's not sponsored but what we're going to look
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at is this right here so we're going to look at this piece show how it goes into the
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van um so we're going to install that today and then we're going to uh once we
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get the panels in we'll talk about the connectors how we're going to do the wiring moving the Ford wiring that's on
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the driver's side you guys can see right there the big drooping cable we'll show
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you how to move it where it's going to go um in relation to how we're doing
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this uh van ceiling and then we're going
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to uh talk about Puck Light placement now the ABC
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rig ceiling panels that we're using they have pre-drilled holes
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now that's not bad however it makes it really really hard when you are using a
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hole saw because if you have a hole saw you need uh that pilot bit or the center
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bit to actually bite into something to guide the hole saw as it's cutting and if you have pre-drilled holes it's it's
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almost next to impossible to um to make that happen so we'll be putting the
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lights in a different location not far off from it maybe you know 3 or 4 in um and then we've got let's see what
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else here yeah ceiling panel support um we're
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going to talk about modified truss screws so these are the components that
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you may need to purchase if you're doing putting panels in your van we're going to use them to put in the support strips
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on the left and right hand side of the ceiling um and a bunch of other things in the van and and so if you're going to
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Lowe our home uh Home Depot uh what you want to look for is uh
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two products so they're either going to be called self drilling lath
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screws right there and these screws are going to have this
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uh self-tapping feature on the bottom and then there's this
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uh truss head essentially so it you can use this to hold down stuff
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so if you're doing an upholstered panel or a painted panel um and then you can special
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order these in Black so these black ones we're going to use to neatly put
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in the upholster panels in the van so if you guys saw our door panels these door
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panels have those black screws in there and it's just an aesthetic thing um but
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you definitely want to have screws that are either uh you know zinc plated uh in
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a perfect world you would get stainless steel so these black painted screws
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they're actually stainless steel screws at their core um and then you have the
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modified trust screw so again this is stuff I think I picked up from
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Lowe's and so this one's going to um almost identical to
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uh what the self- drilling lath screws look like and you can see I have these
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anywhere from 1 in to inch and a quter you just want to be careful when
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you're using these and drilling into the van because always think about what's on the other side of the van so just as a
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safety Factor you know limit yourself when you're drilling the ceiling of your van to you know maybe an inch or so um
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and speaking of drilling into the van the ceiling of the van
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uh in some areas of the van of the Ford van is something called boron steel and
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you can correct me if I'm wrong but um I've been told it's boron steel and it's that section that
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goes It goes from here up and this is really it's thin so it it
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accepts uh self tapping screws pretty well but these reinforced riveted places
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or these columns or anything like this it's a completely different type of
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Steel and it's impossible if you don't have a solid carbide drill bit and uh I
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mean solid carbide I don't mean carbide tipped or that sort of thing um you're
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going to need something really uh aggressive to drill that and ask me how
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I know it's because when I installed the adventure wagon kit in the other van um
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there were some places where they give you two drill bits and they're they're the really nice ones but I burned
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through them and I had to buy another one so I think the uh turn that camera
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back on I think the um yeah I think the drill bler they're
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like 65 to 100 bucks they're pretty expensive but they will do the job
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and then we're going to talk about uh I'm going to make sure that I'm going to make a ceiling drill gauge and I'll talk
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about what that is I'll do it briefly here so you kind of know what we're getting into but
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we're going to makees uh essentially a Woods uh a vinyl strip and we're going
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to use it to take a permanent marker we're going to mark all the locations where we can drill into the rib of a for
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Transit Vans of the ceiling supports and then we're also going to identify where these two
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uh uh bolt locations are because we're actually not going to use these bolts to hold the ceiling panels in I just did
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that temporary um but what we're going to do
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is these will be uh those trusted screws will hold this in and then we're actually going to do a cedar quance
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cedar tongue and groove ceiling so a really light uh Cedar tongue and groove ceiling and
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it's going to look pretty awesome it's uh pretty easy to put in but we're going to wait till we do the
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cedar because we're going to want to have the cedar in and as we build it
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we'll drill our hole saws we'll take our hole saw and we'll drill the center of the cedar strips just so we're not going
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through a half of a cedar strip um and it it make sure it looks
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good let's see then we're going to uh wrap it up with talking about the AC
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unit and Max fan cutout how we're going to do that with the ceiling panels we're
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going to run the 48volt power cable and we will need to drill into the side of the van uh not the outside of the van
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but within the upper part so I'll show you how to do that and then we'll end with talking
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about um consideration of your solar panel uh your solar solar roof gland
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location so if you guys uh have seen me build vans on this channel in the past I
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used something called uh it's a
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waterproof change it over here there we go waterproof adjustable cable gland
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set and so in here we've got these big cable
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glands and these things are really cool they comess compress down onto cables so you got a big chunky one you can have
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small wires and instead of cutting a big you know two or 3inch hole in your van for
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that uh double-sided tape gland that sticks down that most people use for
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their solar what you can do is you can uh individually put the wires in your roof in their own gland and what that's
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going to help you do is if you need troubleshooting or say like I don't know like a wire gets snagged and gets
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damaged instead of ripping the whole cap off and moving all the wires through that gland the bigger one um you can do
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it individually so you can just loosen it up you can pull the wire out replace it and then clamp it back
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down um so that's just something I discovered I like to do that uh typically I'm only doing two wires so
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two of these glands and two wires from solar and we're we're set and they're
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also small holes uh let's see
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that's it all right so that's what we're doing in this video today and uh let's go ahead and get to work
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here I will mention this um so if
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you just here for just a moment this is the puck light that we're going to be
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putting into the ceiling of the van and this is spring loaded so these Wings come up like
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this and then you can squeeze this into the ceiling and then what they do is they expand and then they'll hold this
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puck in what's nice is if you ever have one of these burn out on you you use these wo connectors and then you can
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just uh open it up replace the light and then pop the light back in so we'll
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we'll probably talk about that um we'll get into too much detail but that'll also be in the video
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so we're going to start with laying out our uh support pieces so these pieces
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right here so I'm going to go ahead and get a drill and let's uh let's actually
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go over here to the computer and just show you what this is so this is not sponsored just some easy information for
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you so we're using the ABC uh interior wall panel
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kit and what you need to if you are not using that kit you're doing your own
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thing but you want some ceiling support to help you with uh this transition between the ceiling and the
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sidewall uh this is pretty cool uh this it's simple um
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it's it's a very thick gauge uh I think it's
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stainless it's not aluminum for sure thick gauge stainless and um we'll
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actually be an upholstering this so we'll spray adhesive on it like this photo and then we'll actually put our
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fabric on there because there's going to be about a/ inch and a quar inch Gap and that reveal is what you're going to see
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so if you upholster with the same fabric as your wall panels you're going to have a really
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nice transition you won't see that Gap plus it's going to hold back these cables um including the Ford Transit
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cable or the Ford factory wiring harness that's going from the driver's side all the way to the back of the van so it'll
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help out with that uh we still need to rip these
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uh uh ceiling members here so if you guys can see this uh piece of Baltic
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Birch right here we're going to rip two of those not in this video but that is what we're going to mount the panels
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to so we're trying to going to stick on the trying to stay the wire train right now I'm trying to get get this wiring in
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um that's why I paused on the floor because I want to I want to put this uh Eco flow cable I want to put it in the
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floor and I'm going to hold off before I glue it in because I don't want to
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retroactively cut through the floor or go through the the panel because we can move on to other things while we're
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waiting on something to come in for example behind the scenes behind this
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door over here we've got our saw set up and we have got everything mapped out for the uh kitchen Galley that we're
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going to be building so this is the one that actually will be going into John and Susan's van so this one over here is
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just uh the demo piece so we can reference for measurements and stuff like that but we have the uh Rockler
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undermount drawer slides coming in tomorrow um so depending on where we get
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to tonight and what I'm working on tomorrow in the shop we may hop on over to the kitchen Galley show you guys how
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that's coming on but now we're going to hop over and
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we're going to get the ceiling panels out change my microphone get the ceiling panels out and uh get going
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here
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now we used a Riv nut to make these
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uh you know bolts be able to go into the ceiling and where the location of these
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are what's nice is if you want to put a piece of L track you can do that going down the van or what they're what I've
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used them for is in Thomas's van this was the uh
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is what bolted in the 8020 structure to the the driver's side and then to the passenger side and then the ceiling went
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in between that um on this van we'll make sure that we can reference these
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and use it for uh a bookshelf our our storage over
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here okay so we're just going to put these over here because we will be putting
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them back in the van shortly um if you took out your
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foam pieces like this you're going to need to put them back in your van because that is what's going to
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reference the Ford section of this support
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member and you guys are in for a laugh for this uh front ceiling panel part I
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just it was really it was really awkward doing it uh solo so I do remember that so we're
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going to see how I actually get it get it taken
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out uh Pro tip if you ever order ceiling panels or anything like that make
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sure that leave it in the Box until you're ready to actually work on the project if you're doing this DIY um I'm
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in an air conditioned shop which I'm very thankful for but if I were outside
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you're going to have uh these panels warp on you
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potentially and just just kind of prepare to uh it's not the end of the
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world if they start to warp because when you uh put them back into the van um you're going to be bolting them
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in and it'll kind of get that uh shape back for example this right here is nice
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and flat in the front um but this has a
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crown to it that you don't actually see right now so when we're finished and we have that those
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wood that Baltic Birch Runners coming down or the furring strips if you want to call it this is actually going to
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compress like that so it'll have a uh an arc to
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it okay it went way easier than when I put it in
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earlier yeah these can just stay
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here
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okay and grab a tape measure so I'm going to go ahead and cut
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this uh little tool that I'm going to
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make that you guys should definitely make is going to show us where we can can and can't
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put screw holes into the ribs of the top of the van so let's get a tape
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measure
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so when I was putting in a Thomas's
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ceiling uh it was very difficult to figure out uh I did an underlayment on
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the bottom that I painted black a matte black and then it was that simulated
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slat design and then I needed to tie it in after the fact into the this
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so there's a bunch of holes here and you need some type of uh something to
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reference so that you know once this uh ceiling gets put back in where you can
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drill so you're and for me it's just to make sure everything looks nice um you
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could just go for it you know DIY and you don't have to uh be per too perfect with it but we're going to I'm going to show
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you how to make one if you want to make one so we got 62 in let's just cut this
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to
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62 and we're going to we'll ride on this later but if you guys can see what I'm
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doing here I'm going to take this and this is going to go up
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here
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um and I'm going to find out once I put this I'll trim it to when we put the the
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two pieces of stainless up here it's going to be a little bit of a different measurement um but what I want to do is
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when I bend this up I basically want to copy and say you know this is where
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there's no so make a big X here so can't drill here can't drill here can't drill here and
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then this the places I can drill um so I'll use a black marker for
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where I can't and I'll use a blue for where I can and then that way when I get ready to do my Cedar
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seiling I can put the underl it down and then I can start working my Cedar just going you know left to right
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and um actually what we'll probably do is maybe right to left because over here we're
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going to have a shelf and then a refrigerator that might be work out better anyway the point is once we have
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the cedar ceiling in as we go we can put the cedar in hold this up drill into the
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ceiling and we'll do it'll help us with a couple things we'll have this we'll have a nice neat path for the screws
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that go up in the ceiling so we have those stainless steel black screws um
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have all spacing very neat and so it'll look very uh polished and
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professional but this this uh piece of Vine right here will be a gauge so we
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can you guys get the point all right next we're going to
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tackle this cable so two things we're going to make sure we need zip ties and then we're
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going to get um we need a flush
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cut trimmer if you guys don't have one of those uh I suggest you buy one
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they're super cheap on Amazon but they're awesome they flush cut they don't keep those sharp edges on the zip
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ties so it makes things enjoyable to use I'm grab my phone so we can hop back
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in the van there we go move this to this
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side
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if you guys are watching this video you can also check out uh our website as well van Builder hq.com got a lot of
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awesome uh blog posts on there talking about van conversions solar cabinet
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choices uh you know what's the best van to actually convert for your van conversion low medium high roof um just
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a bunch of cool blog posts uh that we've written and uh it's a lot
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of feedback that we've gotten not only from you guys uh talking about the channel but all the shows that we go to
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so as if you check it out you'll see a lot of the shows uh a lot of photos from
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um the Expo shows the van shows that we've gone to they're on there so yeah
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it's fun to check out so it's on Van Builder hq.com and a lot of the stuff that I'm using
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here uh my blades the drill um stuff like that the rivet
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nut gun that I use to put this in uh it's going to be on something called the
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DIY van build cheat sheet so it's a essentially an Excel document that I put
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together of the past three years and all the stuff I bought in the shop it's on that list and it's about 250 items
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currently it's always growing but that list is free so there's a link in the
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description below you guys can go over there put your name email address in and get it sent right to you uh you can
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search it but if it's something I've bought off Amazon in the past three years it's on that list um and I really
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just use it to reference stuff I've already bought um makes it really easy so for
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example you know these lights that I buy the wio connectors stuff like that so
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it's kind of my little sheet for chicken inventory the links are there from Amazon but um it's completely free so
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Link in description if you guys want to pick one of those up and uh I think it'll really help you with your van
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build also as I'm going through this whole entire thing if you guys have any questions there's a live chat you can
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ask me anything van related while I'm working I'll pause and then hop onto
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that and uh ask answering some questions for you back to this um be extremely careful
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these rivets right here there's these little little Tails from where
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everything was uh spot riveted and they're they're like a surgical blade
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I've I know they're there and I've still cut my finger I don't know probably 10
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or 12 times um they are just extremely sharp so if you're going over here be
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very careful these things little Tails hanging out as we start on this wire the very
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front of the van this is a very important cable this goes to your uh antenna on the top of the van um and I
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believe it's for you know the XM uh Ford
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sink and stuff like that so you do not want to damage this so we're going to make sure that we
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just kind of move this up here and we're going to zip tight out of
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the way but we're going to make sure that we're not
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um damaging it in any way uh I'm going to come back to this
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because there really not a good way to hold this up here and we got one we got one
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spot but before I got distracted we got to put our foam pieces back in
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here so let's go ahead and get this piece put
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up now we covered this piece right here in
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another uh live stream earlier and what I want to mention about it is this if you follow it all the way
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to the back of the van and they go straight down there's the grounding terminals for the Ford Transit for the
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brake lights the rear lights and stuff like that and those grounding terminals what you going to do is you want to
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loosen them and then take all those plugs out and then pop off these little snaps that hold the cable in and there's
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some slack that you can free up in the bottom and then you can actually pick this up so in the ABC Rigg
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video it's not wrong but I learned this from the adventure wagon tutorials so
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Adventure wagon we really need uh they need this cable really high
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ABC um I think they just pushed it up here and they didn't do all that but if you need more SL like
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this you can actually pull about another foot of slack by loosening those terminals you will have to create you'll
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have to make your own uh ground extension but if you're doing electrical you can do that anyway uh by yourself um
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it's just an extension piece so if you buy an adventure wagon kit interior conversion kit they give you a little uh
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wiring harness to extend the grounding terminals of this cable
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um so that's just a little little Pro tip for
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you and I'll probably tell you just say this a million times but just very very careful about the sheet metal it is
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so so sharp all right so we're taking this
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let's go ahead and cut that trim this piece
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off
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okay yeah we're just going to go step by step that way we don't have to go back and fix anything so we're going to go
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ahead and zip Tire satellite cable up just keep everything nice and
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tight and if you think about it places where you're not going to be insulating um like we're going to
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insulate here but you know we're going to have a wall panel here uh you know use zip ties electrical tape anything to
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keep vibrations at a minimum uh would be my recommendation for
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you okay so we're just going to temporarily put this in I might let that snap in just one
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little snap just to hold
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itself that was more snaps than I wanted but that's okay um by the way when you pull this
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foam out don't worry when this plastic goes through through the foam and you
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think you've broke it um there has been a Transit where I have successfully gently taken this out and it's not gone
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through uh it doesn't hurt anything just if you want to fix it later just put a a washer behind the piece of plastic and
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then pop it back on all right so let's get our cable
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satellite cable let's pop it up here now there's a lot of back and forth
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when you're building a van so um for example I need to take this back out I need to reupholster it but I
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need to do the cabling I need to do this ceiling so this uh this will be
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upholstered all right making our way towards the back and then we're going
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to now I haven't put in this ABC rig rig thing before so if for some reason where
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I'm I've already watched the the video but if I'm putting these zip ties in the wrong location and I have to cut them
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off and that's just what we'll have to
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do but I like how this is holding them here cuz it's it's in an area that's
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not this is not going to rub and cut
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anything also this is stuff I've already removed this is the uh cable that
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actually plugs into your cargo lights so you'll need to remove those cargo lights um if you're putting your van
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together
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if you guys have any questions don't be shy don't worry about me working and stopping from
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working I'll get the I'll get this done but if you guys have a question in the
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moment I'll be happy to answer
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it
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all right when ABC rig made their video they said when you get your kit there's
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going to be two links so my kit
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um let's see here am I just losing my mind nope so they're supposed to be two
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of one length and two of the other length uh they must have changed that I think one was the extended van obviously
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I chose 148 so we're going to going to try to copy their install
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method as best as possible so what they do is there is a
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little indentation right here so you get a square hole and then you got a round
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hole and there's this little lip and they want you to take
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this and see I already poked myself with that metal yeah sneaks up on
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you okay um so they're doing they do the
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rear first and then they come overlap
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and then butt up to that so let's
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see see what that looks
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like I might move the camera since we're
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working in the top of the van
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here but you guys can see that looks pretty
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good yeah let me just change the camera
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angle perfect there we go
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okay so this one looks
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like okay we're going to add more zip
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ties
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so that it's actually laying on the cable in their video that's why there's that
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offset just make sure I'm doing this
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right okay that's the short side so this is the this is the
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video okay that's the one that's why that needs to be on that line
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okay all right so this does get
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offset so that would be touching the wire but we pull it off the
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wire just like that okay I like that design that works for me you still need
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to get this up as high as possible
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we'll see how this back section goes they don't extend theirs all the way to the back but I want to have something
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to you always need to think eight steps ahead in a van because even if I have this put up
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we got our wall panels and ceiling remember we need to finish this back section we need to cover the holes we
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need to wrap it but then we need to to keep in mind how are we going to transition the wrap section to the
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ceiling when nothing exists because even though we put the ceiling panel in that's for a kit there's still like an
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inch and a half or two that's open exposed back here
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um so the kits don't do everything that's why you need to now you might be someone that doesn't
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care about the back being finished and you just want to hit the Road and I don't know maybe you're just hauling
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motorcycles or going camping but if you want to have you want things to be a finished look you always think about how
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is that finish look going to be achieved you know what are you putting uh how are you building a van so
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it's going to be able to support something like
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that uh let me see if I can actually
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this okay we are up as high as we can go got everything set let's just clean this
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up don't cut your van wires
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now with the offset that they're providing for the install you should we should be able to sneak our wires up
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over that Ridge
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um while we're working on it okay let's get the uh screws
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out see we're just going to use the 1-in self-drilling lath screws
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remember we're choosing this because we would I mean we could use like a 2in screw but uh we don't want everything
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to um am I trying to
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say we don't want to go through the wires all right
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so that is why they did what they did okay so what they did is this piece
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right
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here okay so that butts up to that
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all right we're going to clean up our satellite cable because we won't be able to see it
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again it's going to be hidden forever so let's make sure it has
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a good home over
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here
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okay we're just going to lightly put that in there we don't want to Super zip tie that
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down all right this kitchen gal is nice put all my tools on
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it so they start from the back and then they overlap going to the front um
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I'm not going to do that because we're going to be doing it just a little bit
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differently so
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this okay we're just going to do that there see guys I'm telling you my hands
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are going to be cut up with this sheet metal just be really
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careful okay so we're going to need to be a little
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bit more precise on the Scribe marks that we put up on the ceiling so I'm
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just going to get a
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square I'm going to describe that there we
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go this does not have to be perfect
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um I just like it it' be
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perfect okay there you go see they didn't take
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long okay name of the game is to not drill through the factory harness
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now this Chucky piece of plastic right here it looks like I'm going to have
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to reorientate my zip tie this Square thing is in the
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way
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okay I'm just going to put two dots on the
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top that way I can see where I want to put the screws
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in that okay finally we're going to
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drill
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it's going to happen a lot when you're trying to get these screws
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[Music] [Applause]
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started
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you will find a couple bad screws in your box so just be patient
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[Music]
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okay so now we got those in we're going to put some more screws in later we just want to get this held in place so that we
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can move towards the
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back
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so now we're dealing with this back wiring harness we need to uh I'm going to
50:45
temporarily zip tie this really high and up so it goes up and over this and then I'm going take that piece and I push it
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all the way back and then I'm going to use it's a pretty cool product here let me
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grab
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it where
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go
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for
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so I put this on there later but if you need to some uh push something all the way towards the back or it's touching
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metal in a van we're not going to do this uh we're going to upholster that
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but if you had to what you can do is you can actually uh have you can buy this
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felt tape and you can wrap stuff um we did that in Thomas's van a lot of well
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he he wanted a whole subwoofer and sound system system so to make sure stuff didn't rattle I put a fill tape over
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everything um for this one we're going to leave that open um and
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actually I think we're going to need to see if we can move
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this all right start working on this cable little cable
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management
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and if you're in the middle of your build you're kind of doing what I'm doing just do things that you're you know do
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things well so you don't have to go back and redo them so I'm trying to get this done so I do it one time and I just move
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on so let's see that needs to
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be that
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okay I just want to leave enough space so that I can upholster it and then I can
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also uh wrap this uh
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uh okay that's good
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okay
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[Music]
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sometimes you got to persuade it a little bit Yeah the still these Vans is is
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really strong some in some places so takes extra
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effort also you don't want to lose the
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screws
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okay this s looks
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good need to do about three more screws and
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and we can move on to something
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[Music]
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else
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it's really nice is very strong all right
1:01:23
perfect
1:01:29
moving to the other
1:01:53
side
1:02:47
now some of these ribs may not be all in the same location
1:02:52
so don't be too hard yourself if it starts to get off cuz
1:02:58
it's uh these ceiling pieces can be riveted
1:03:06
in sometimes different are different ways looks like the wiring on our uh
1:03:14
pater size is going to be easier not because we don't have the big Rope Rope wire but it's because uh it
1:03:23
goes through the back channel of the van so we don't have to deal with
1:03:29
that all
1:03:46
right let's get a better C camera angle that's not good all right hold on
1:04:01
I don't have the uh humble Road helicopter sound effect I'll leave that to
1:04:23
George
1:04:46
see I like to come back with this camera just a little bit if
1:04:53
possible
1:05:02
okay so yeah we're going to bump up to that foam
1:05:08
thing and I'll move it to the back when we get to the back
1:05:23
section
1:05:46
yeah this time is going to be harder CU we don't have a cable to push against was kind of our cheat on the
1:05:53
other one let's see if there's any way to I
1:06:02
don't think there's another
1:06:09
way actually that looks to be maybe a half
1:06:23
inch
1:07:52
h
1:08:48
got to work smarter not harder
1:08:57
of course you would fall down of course you would fall
1:09:05
down
1:09:22
see
1:10:35
so what I'm doing I'm just pulling this back a little bit
1:10:43
because uh it's kind of touching up here on this front piece and I don't want it
1:10:49
to do that okay that's all right right
1:11:01
there okay we'll just we'll put some fabric up
1:11:13
[Applause]
1:11:22
there
1:11:30
May wonder you may want to ask you say Nick why aren't you pre-drilling this I
1:11:37
promise you that is extremely difficult to
1:11:52
do
1:12:08
[Applause]
1:12:14
okay that looks
1:12:22
excellent and that's our little trick to get that piece
1:12:29
in and so now I know why their wall panels are obviously shorter than you
1:12:35
think they should be and it's basically just so they can uh what was I trying to say they
1:12:43
can have that Contour kind of come up make it look
1:12:50
nice um the adventure wagon was different because everything's Uh custom molded
1:12:57
but it is much more
1:13:21
expensive same thing here we're going to make make sure that we put it in the right orientation but
1:13:29
we leave an offset for our Fabric and then our we're actually going to be using four-way stretch fabric in the
1:13:36
back so we just want to make sure we leave enough room to stuff that behind
1:13:43
the
1:13:52
back
1:14:15
okay so excellent doing good let's get this up
1:14:39
here that's just kind of barely going to hang there I think that'll hold while we
1:14:45
do
1:14:52
this
1:15:14
[Music]
1:15:52
than
1:16:06
you can see I'm covering it with my hand because I don't want to don't want to lose the
1:16:12
screw in a place in the van where you cannot pull it
1:16:20
out that's the worst [Music]
1:16:47
I need to actually
1:17:13
right there we
1:17:19
go okay
1:17:35
put those last three screws in and keep on
1:17:50
going see when we have uh everything in you can put more force and it's
1:17:59
Gonna Keep the screw from moving on
1:18:10
you I need to turn this clutch onto something so I don't strip
1:18:18
these there we go much better
1:18:49
okay that part is done um so let's spend the
1:18:58
next minutes um I want to do
1:19:08
the see
1:19:14
here I'm going to reinstall the panels we're going to change the agenda
1:19:20
a little bit we're going to reinstall the panels because um I need to go ahead
1:19:25
and uh let's see oh yeah let's make our let's make
1:19:33
this template piece and then I'm probably end the stream because I just need to get to work on some other things
1:19:38
in the van off camera but let's get this camera in a position to where I can show
1:19:45
you how to make this uh piece
1:19:51
to hold on
1:19:59
now we're going to make this scale reference piece I don't know what
1:20:06
you're going to call
1:20:21
it okay we're going to do it on this back
1:20:29
rib so then now that we have our side to side pieces
1:20:35
in what we can do is let's
1:20:45
see oh yeah we definitely need to cut that now so this one's okay let's just mark
1:21:03
that okay I think that might do
1:21:21
it I guess we could call it a go noo gauge but technically those they're made
1:21:27
a little bit different all right let's trim it off a little bit
1:21:46
more there you go that's perfect all right so the first thing we want to do is uh just make up something so that you
1:21:55
know where the center of the van is so I'm just going to do like a
1:22:00
little Crosshair right there so that'll be the
1:22:06
center then we'll color code this in a second but essentially what we're doing is uh we want make a line
1:22:13
here and here and so that's a
1:22:21
no then we'll Trace these little
1:22:31
slits you guys can see that while I'm doing this and we'll clean this up when we
1:22:37
take this
1:22:48
down and so right here I'm going to make a circle
1:22:54
and that'll let us know that that's where our Riv nut is and then this one will be no and
1:23:03
then that's
1:23:15
no okay and then I'll clean this up I'll show you then we'll see if you guys got any
1:23:21
questions I think that'll be the stream for
1:23:51
tonight okay I'm going clean this up and then
1:23:56
I'll I'll show it to
1:24:08
you so behind the scenes all I'm doing is I'm just taking a square and I'm going
1:24:15
through cleaning up these
1:24:21
lines
1:24:32
so you guys have any questions this will be a good time to put those in the chat and I'll come
1:24:37
back answer them oh also make you sure you do a
1:24:45
leftand side and a right hand side or you can do drivers and P pass
1:24:52
driver and
1:25:14
passenger now when we put our ceiling panel
1:25:19
in um
1:25:26
there you will be drilling screws into the ceiling uh just for looks but just this is to reference
1:25:34
and tell you that hey these screw places are not uh supporting so get your
1:25:40
supporting ones in first and then come back with the ones that are to
1:25:46
make it look you know I guess decorative might be a good
1:25:51
word
1:26:00
but I did this on Thomas's van and it worked out
1:26:08
excellent guys just a couple more seconds I am actually I'm halfway through
1:26:20
here all right I'm not going to completely finish this uh just so we
1:26:26
can get back to the video give me one
1:26:33
second I need to double check something because I think I missed a
1:26:51
section
1:26:57
okay where did I mess up I messed up
1:27:05
somewhere I heard something coming in on the computer what what do we have coming on the
1:27:10
computer I think that was a new subscriber maybe I couldn't see it anyway all right
1:27:18
so if you guys can see here um oh that's my big that's the
1:27:26
big okay let me do that real quick that is for the big x marks of the
1:27:42
no okay so here you go this is what you
1:27:49
want to make and I finished it on the left side just for a lack of time here
1:27:56
um this actually needs to be like
1:28:02
that but we need to make sure that this is the kept as the center okay so what you do is you black
1:28:11
out or hat do a little hatch or whatever um these are the places you cannot drill
1:28:17
so these will not be a structural point so if we do our
1:28:22
uh tongue and groove we'll be doing a tongue and groove here here so you can
1:28:28
see most places we'll be able to tie it in um but there may be one or two places
1:28:33
but with tongue and groove it's going to hold each other in and uh we we'll put probably a little bit of glue
1:28:40
too but this way we'll just slide and we'll go to each one um and as we're working we we have a
1:28:48
map of what's underneath the ceiling that you can't see anymore and then we'll just put this up and uh
1:28:55
so this is something that just I created and it help me to
1:29:01
uh see what's behind um each part uh yeah let's hop back on
1:29:10
the
1:29:20
computer all right guys hope that uh live stream
1:29:27
was helpful for you um I'm going do some more work behind the scenes as usual and then we'll recap some stuff uh we didn't
1:29:34
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1:29:40
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1:29:46
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