Live Build Night! Adventure Wagon Insulation Install
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May 3, 2025
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thank you hey guys welcome to the live stream tonight so as you can see we got a
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different setup we're behind the van I'm very excited because this is kind of my plan for
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the builds going out is to get you guys involved uh do some live building on
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camera so tonight's going to be kind of like a test we're going to go through um I'm just going to do my thing as far
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as doing the thing that I have on my checklist tonight which was installing the
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adventure wagon system now if you look at this camera right here
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most of the system has already been installed we're going to go over this system if you have any questions
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so I'm just going to work organize the insulation that is on the bottom of the
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van that you guys can see I've got a bunch of panels that I need to organize so that's what I'm doing tonight I'm
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just going to keep the camera rolling but in the meantime if you guys want to ask questions put those in the comments
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um so really the focus tonight will be any questions on the adventure wagon interior interior system
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uh so before we get started I will go to the computer here and I will show you
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what we're talking about so Adventure wagon is a company that makes a complete interior
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uh panel systems I guess the best way to explain it
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so you can go to their website go to their interior system and they're going to give you everything you need for the
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whole entire van um on the walls for example so they're going to
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give you insulation panels upholstered panels wood panels L track
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um stuff like that and the reason that I went to them is
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strictly a matter of safety when you're building a van uh it's okay to build it out of wood my
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personal van is kind of like a wood you know structure there's a little bit of metal in there but most most of it is
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just Wood Construction you can do that safely making sure you're bolting it just when you're doing
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that type of build using wood just imagine if you're in a car accident how are the other items in the van going
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to react how is the fridge going to react how is the battery system going to react you know what's going to happen
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where are those things going to go when you get in a car accident
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um so getting into doing these professional builds you know I have customers
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and not only do I want my bills to be safe as possible electrically which I can
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take care of that the interior needs to be just as safe
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so I came across a venture wagon and they had this internal skeleton
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and it rivets into the whole entire van so it provides an extra layer of
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protection in the event that you do get to an accident that's not their words that's
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my words so um they're using this system so that
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they can create a repeatable attachment point system so they what they want to do is they need repeatability so if they
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are in control of the framework that they're installing into these Bands then they can can be repeatable
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um the other way that they uh let's see here man I need to get
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something to zoom better on here for you guys but what's nice is since you're in
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reinforcing the van on the inside you'll notice these tracks and so that is L
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track and if you guys don't know what l-track is
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stands for logistical track and trucks Freight uh
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you know anything that transports uh cargo uses
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these tracks and without damaging my equipment
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you guys can look you see how there's a channel there's a channel going through there
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that channel is what you put in a there's clips that you can put in there
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and this one is a recessed one so what Adventure wagon has done is
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they've repurposed it to hold not only be used as an attachment point but it
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can hold the panels in place so it is 100 functional
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it looks really really cool and uh it looks cool
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so that's why I got the system um oh it's safe that was my third thing it was safe
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so let's go back to the computer so just take a look at that
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yeah when I hold the control key it doesn't work that way
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the text gets bigger but the the photos just stay the same it depends on what depends on what
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website I'm using uh see for 10
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okay here we go we're back stream pause for just a second
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um yeah so Adventure wagon this is their interior system
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and then this is what it looks like when you um actually finish the interior so if you
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look at this camera it's kind of the same thing you can choose your colors for the
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fabric they've got a couple different colors and then you can choose the top panel
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which is the uh like the bamboo that you see in there you can choose that
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and so there's the L track what's also nice is that you can take the panels off
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to access cabling if you do decide to wire your cables behind the uh
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the panels in the van um I guess this video is turning out to be
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a review of venture wagon um there's going to be multiple of these because I'm not going to finish the van
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in the two hour stream that I'm doing tonight but you can see here they use 3M
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thinsulate for their insulation
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they have different uh bags and storage systems that you can do you can have multiple beds so you can have a bed up
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here and a bed down here it's called their Moab elevator bed
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it is a premium product but it is built like it it is built like
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a tank it is I have nothing but high things to say about it
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um here's the Moab bed so it has these expanding slats in here so that you can
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lower it and then as the van goes up and tapers in gets narrower the bed can adapt
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and they've got it in two different colors and as you guys saw in the other live
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stream they use the Riga hexa ply
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so really really cool they've got some other parts
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let's see if I can go back up here I'll just do a couple more things and I'm gonna get back into what I'm doing
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tonight um the mule bags I love them they're really
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cool so the mule bag is a soft bag that attaches to the L track at
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the top of the van
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what's nice about the soft bags is you can break them down store them they're soft so if you want to do double
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beds double mule bags above your head then if you
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get up in the middle of the night you won't accidentally hit your head on a hard cabinet
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and then let's see what else cargo controls so here's the tie down systems
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so this is stuff you can purchase to connect to the L track
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and tie down equipment gear yeah so check it out adventurewagon.com
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all right so I'm going to uh
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so pretty much what's gonna happen tonight is the other van I'm storing all the insulation
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I'm going to bring it out and one thing that you have to do is when you start to get the thinsulate panels out
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you have to organize them they have a tag at the very bottom and they're going to explain to you they'll give you like a code and
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location uh like driver's side lower or upper
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so we'll go over I'm just going to you know act like you guys aren't here I'm just
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going to keep keep going but put in the chat get in the chat ask some questions while I'm uh and doing the installation
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of the bottom of the van and yeah we'll get going here so let me change cameras
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make sure you guys can still hear me looks like we're pretty good
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so just to kick it off on this camera so right here this is the thinsulate
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panels and uh this is it's about an inch and a half
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and in some areas they'll double it up for you so you get about three inches and this is very this is a 3M brand so
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it's very you know it's a high-end um uh
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insulated material most people use Havelock wool
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but this this will be a step above Havelock just in my opinion
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and at the very bottom you're going to have like these tags so this one says 19
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and 20 that's the number and then it says Dash low Dash 2B
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and this one is Dash low Dash 1B so when you see that you'll notice that
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these are both cut the same size and that means that they are meant to be
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um together 1b2b and so this would be this would make a panel like this
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so for example d low would be driver side low so this is going to go
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um driver side low you do have to kind of figure this out so
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uh you guys will enjoy this video if you do have one of these systems because I'm going to go through
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um because it's been a while since I've been working on the System since we've been working on another van
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and uh when you first get it shipped it's kind of in an order the way that they pack it
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so in a perfect world you would be opening that package and then directly putting it in the van in that order
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but I've moved this around the shop a couple times in the last couple months and uh yeah it's not it's not organized
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so I'm gonna be organizing it on camera so if you're in the same situation and you're wondering what panel goes where
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you can watch this fast forward follow along later when the stream's done it's going to help you
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find out where everything goes but what you can't see here is below well you actually can you can see I've
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got the insulation just down here what I'm first going to do is just do driver's side and passenger
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and what we're doing is we're insulating this bottom channel so everything from this L track up has already been done so
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part one and part two of the adventurewag install those videos are available on the channel
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part one is installing the orange structure like the internal skeleton and then part two is installing uh other
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components such as like the the ceiling so after that we'll chop this up it'll
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be a part three when this is all finished so pretty much the next couple live streams unless I change up the format
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we're going to be doing um just live live builds
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and uh yeah I think it's late time stop it's nice for everyone you know get home kind of
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watch me build um so we've got driver's side low
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then we've got driver side low 2B so I'm just going to put this over here
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I've already got a driver low 1A 3A
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4B so you can see how this starts to get
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confusing so we're going to do a
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and then we got B so we're just going to put all this in here and then we'll just we'll start
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organizing I've got practice from doing the rest of
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the van so we got driver low 3A 3B for a
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this is the uh Friedman seat that we purchased when we were at the show and so this is
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pretty much the location I'm going to put it in um we'll do a video later about this
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so I just need to move it out of the way so I can get over here
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[Music]
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foreign give us enough room
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it has to do a little bit more because we're actually going to finish and we're going to install the whole panel
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snipe
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and we'll go ahead and just lower this there we go
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okay much better
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now Venture wagon has uh tutorials on their website so if you get lost you can go through
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um and just kind of follow the video I actually might go here and reference it in just a second
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after I get these uh organized
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so I'm looking at driver low 3B
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and the A's and the B's will probably go together so just keep getting some more
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and then some of these are contoured to the wheel well so it makes it much easier to identify
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so over here we've got passenger low 7B then we've got passenger low 7A
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so these two are together and so these are going to go probably
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right here those are passenger lows
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and it's just so nice that these are all pre-cut and then we've got passenger low 5B
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passenger low 5A
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and so these are very specific so if you think this one goes like this
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just use your imagination because it can also go like this or it can go like
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this they are very particular that the way that they cut this and that all the
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corrugations if there's a section that's thinner so for example
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this one's thinner than this one there's a corrugation that's that's going here so they've already
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pre-measured that so what I'm getting at is basically if
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it doesn't fit perfectly try another location
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and they're actually so good at doing this that this one for example see how there's like a taper right here
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just because there's like a gusset that comes in like at this angle so this one is actually going to go
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up over here and then we'll have
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passenger low just make sure it's an A to B seven a
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seven b so these are together
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and so this one's going to go right here so I'm gonna leave these out so that I'm gonna get one section lined up once I go
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through all this and then I'll just kind of run it off that way you guys can reference this video too
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foreign
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foreign
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driver low 7B driver low 5B
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driver low 7A driver low 7B 7a7b
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so now we're just looking for like a driver low 5A
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all right so we found that driver low 5A
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driver low 5B these guys
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let me go here
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yep just like figuring out a puzzle that's all
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now be careful because some of these you will need to cut and
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you'll have this extra so for example there's certain sections on the top like
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for example for the vent fan you know obviously this is going to be a cut out and then for some other areas that you
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might need to cut out so these I cut out they don't have a stickers on them so I'm just going to set them aside
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got the lower back door
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see what else we got passenger low
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we're almost done here and we'll get ready to uh be popping these in here in a second
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passenger low 4B we got here
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so passenger low 8A passenger low 8B so 8A 8B
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and that's five so we got five
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seven so this is six seven and this is eight
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so now we need to find six
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and we got driver low 8A driver low
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driver low 8B whatever low eight
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let's drive a little eight would be easy five six seven eight
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five a and then we've got this one is four
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seven so this middle six
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five let me pass your
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so we need a four here's a four a
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I guess we could play some music in the Stream I think stream beats is a
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free and it's no copyright
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driver low 1B 2B so this will be the very front
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oh that's eight now over here seven
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six five four
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three two one
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so this one is eight let's go to the back
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so one is closer to the driver and then it goes back to eight
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that's what we've got so far
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driver level 3B
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one two three
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driver low 4B and there's 4B for a
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this is a driver load 2.5 a 2.5 is going to be inside
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I keep calling it a gusset I guess that's the best way to explain it explain it driver low 2A
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that goes inside there driver low 8 a back here in the back
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driver low 6B here driverless 6A
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driver low 1A
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drive low 1A 1B
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driver low 2B it's really close to this bottom side
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being done driver low 1.5 so the 1.5
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1.5 goes behind the the post
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so here I'll draw it so these 1.5 numbers
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today
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come on open up here
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open up here
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okay so we have the back of the van so there's like the panel and then inside
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the cavity you've got these little sections right here
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so anytime you have these little triangle pieces they're going to have a opening here
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here this is going to be your 1.5 and like your 2.5 so this would be your one
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this would be let's see let me get different color
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so this would be one this would be two it has to be three more
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five
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so the 1.5 is going to be here 2 is going to be here and then the 2.5
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is going to be right there
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all right
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see next we have what do we got
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passenger for a so it's five four a
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then we got six a six B so this will be the very back one
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now that'll be six
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yeah I can see this side is confusing too because we got one through
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eight but then we have five
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six seven
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eight unless I get that flipped around
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five six yep I gotta flip around so eight is in the
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back we got eight and we're going to flip the five and the
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Seven like that
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this will be the five
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and then we've got four
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driver low 1.5 that goes over there
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driver low 2.5 B goes there
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so these horizontal pieces are not we don't need these yet
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so we need to look for a couple more back here we've got our back door
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slider
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and then we've got our bump outs for the windows
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okay looks like that's all we've got let's check out these other pieces one more
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time
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uh see driver low 3A low low 3A
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so low 3A is here
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and we've got driver low
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driver low 4B Lo 4A 4A 4B
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so we should have a pass and here we go passenger there we go yeah you gotta look really careful
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all right so we've got two here two two two
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um this back section yep we got two two two two two
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two okay
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looking good so now
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let's check out the stream here
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all right guys so now that we got them all organized on the bottom what we're going to do is I'm going to call them out from the driver's side front to back
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and then the passenger side front to back just so if you guys want a checklist of the order that they're in
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um we'll at least have it on the video
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all right so up here in the front is one
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so let's be driver low 1A 1B we come back we've got driver low 1.5 a
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driver low 1.5 B then we've got driver load 2B 2A we've
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got driver low 2.5 a 2.5 B we've got
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driver low 3A 3B driver low 4B 4A
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driver low 5B
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5A driver low 6A 6B
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driver low 787b and this should be driver low 8A 8 B
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then coming over here passenger we've got passenger low 4a4b
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passenger low 5A 5B passenger low 6A 6B
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passenger low 787b and then finally we've got passenger low 8A
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8B all right and then what we're going to do is we're just going to stuff them in
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here we're going to do it in the same order
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so up here in the front we've got
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this guy right here I can't record on my stream
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focus in on the back section here real quick
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there we go
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foreign this looked pretty good
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foreign
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sections in now they give you a roll of double-sided tape that you can use
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if these things start to fall down and let me show you what that roll looks
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like
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so this is what the with the double-sided tape roll looks like right here
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so you can use this it's really used for the top panels and these side panels that are really large and that they tend
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to over time kind of fall down so I'm not going to use it for down here
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because there's such they're kind of like a short stubby piece and they hold vertical really well
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what we've done in a previous video is we have um
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uh let's see here
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let me go through before I get going any further let's just go ahead and check
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the videos here
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oh excellent
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now we gotta figure out how to remove that off the chat that's funny
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Jamie I don't know if you can log in and remove that from the chat I can turn that window back on
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so unfortunately I mentioned the chat off right here on the video it'll still be up but we're going to turn it off on the
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the screen
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all right so back here so what I'm going to do is just just
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hang out here with me let me go check out some stuff right here on Adventure wagons uh YouTube channel
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okay so over here we've got the videos that they have and so you'll have to scroll through a couple of these
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um until you find the one that you're looking for
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because I think we've used up all of our Rattle Trap Dynamat sound proofing
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material from the kit I just want to double check
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yeah it looks like they have that in the bottom so I'm gonna go ahead and look over in the kit and see if we have any
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of the uh that sound proof left foreign
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all right guys we're gonna pause here just for a minute when we come back I've got to pull out this box over here so
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it's pretty loud but uh we'll pause here for a second we'll be back in just a minute
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foreign [Music]
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thank you [Music]
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thank you [Music]
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thank you [Music]
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thank you all right guys we are back so a couple things that we need to do
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inside here before we keep going is
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this right here is the sound deadening material for the van we put it everywhere in the van except
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where I just put the uh thinsulate material
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um for some reason I thought we used all this up from the kit but I've got the
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box right there so we're going to go ahead and we'll take this out and this stuff
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is it's very thin you can see right there
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and what this does is if you don't know what this is this is uh sound deadening material
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so you're going to cut a section off that's the size that's pretty almost
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like a a half the size of one of these panels this is going to go on the inside of
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that chain that chamber so come over here on the drawing pad so
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it's going to go right here so this blue color it's going to go right here so you're going to cut a piece right there
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you probably won't be able to get your hands in here that's okay if you can put a piece there
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and then over here put a piece then over here put a piece
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and it's going on this back side so you're just going to peel and stick
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and so what that does is you are changing the resonant frequency
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of the metal that is a big fancy way of saying you're taking something that if
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you hit it it kind of has a chance to reverberate but when you put this on there it's
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going to add more weight and it dampens it so it's more of a thud instead of a
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like a ping sound if that makes sense because this changes the uh
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changes that once you peel and stick this you need to buy one of these so one
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of these is just a just a roller um and
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it's not near it's a there's a figure out what type of material this is
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you don't want a hard roll or you want something that has a little bit of give um if you go on Amazon and type in like
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sound deadening roller you'll I got two of these off of Amazon
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there we go all right let's get back to work
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so you put them down here and then what we're going to do is we're just going to take a utility knife and we're going to
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come through here and cut so let me bring this down
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I can show you what we're doing
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so we're gonna come over here we're going to take our panel out these
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uh right here keep them in order let's throw them over here
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and then right here see where we have the uh open Metal
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um we've got that and then we've got hey come here Nova
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and then on this side we've got another side so we're going to cut a small piece here
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and then we're going to cut a small piece down here and then we're going to try to stick a piece inside here so anywhere that you
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can uh Nova come around here no but come here
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she thinks Somebody's knocking at the door um but we're going to take this
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and we're going to turn the metal from this noise to a more of a thud
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so just go ahead and get your oh come on camera
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we're gonna get a new battery and then we're gonna get back to work
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working out all the Kinks today
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do this so you guys can see the behind the scenes
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I've got a power cable that connects the computer but I was getting like a noise feedback
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so I had to go back to battery power
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okay that should work for the moment we'll wait till that gets connected
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all right got the channel should it be connected there we go
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hop back up in here and we're going to go ahead and cut our first uh cutter first piece
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there we go I think we can get camera to focus
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okay so we're going to cut it for this side this does not have to be perfect so just go ahead and take your sheet bring it up
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here Make a Score Mark then come over here make another score mark
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and then just cut it
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be very careful this is a foil backed uh
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piece of dampening stuff so it's razor sharp it's got like a like a little bit of like a sticky tar stuff on
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the back of it and then it's got uh like a just a razor foil right there so
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be very careful you should use gloves um I'm not
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take the paper fold it back there's a little trick that way you get it positioned
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and then take your roller you're going to roll the beginning of it
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and then come back and then peel the paper away as you push the rest of it on
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and do it in the middle and the reason you want to do that is because
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this stuff is so sticky it's possible to get air bubbles in there you really don't want to air bubble in
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this stuff it's not the end of the world but
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uh you just want to have air bubbles and then you're going to keep going
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um the fun part about this is again it doesn't have to be perfect so for example we have a spare piece right here
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so I'm going to go ahead and just cut this all right cut this piece off
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now this piece doesn't really fit anything in here but I'm going to stuff it up under here and stick it in there
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and then I'm gonna use since I can't get the roller in there I'm just going to do it with my hands I'm just going to put this up in here
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[Music] push it down
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I'm going to be very careful when you're using your hands you really should have gloves on but just being really careful because this
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sheet metal can cut you because if you're not familiar with Automotive stuff you won't have that gut
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reaction to be careful you might go to pull your hand out really quick and just you know slice your finger really bad
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this stuff this stamped stuff back here is it's extremely sharp it's very sharp
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so next we're going to come over here and we're going to try to get like a longer piece
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so we're just going to score it and then we're just going to kind of
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find something we can get in there you want as big as it can be but also
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you want it to be manageable
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and I'm gonna get a piece of wood I usually cut on a piece of wood so I'm not tearing up the next piece
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foreign
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foreign
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let's take our piece that we cut out
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and this one's going to be tricky so I'm gonna pull this whole thing off
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and then I'm going to come in here and again be very very careful about
57:59
this sheet metal I'm going to come up to the top
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they make some gloves that are they're made for like you know
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using knives and stuff like that and that would be very good right here and this inner lip is extremely Sharp
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just be very careful
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so that looks good a little spot right there I want to get
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and even pieces this big uh they'll make a difference
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that one's looking pretty good
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so let's try to do this section right here uh and then whatever we have left over we're gonna
59:21
put over here and then we'll put some
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we'll actually put some we'll put some insulation in uh you can keep the paper on the back so
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you can test fit it so you can put it in here
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be very careful how many times I'm going to say that
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so this one is a little too long
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so I need to cut this top section off
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and I'm actually going to make it narrower it doesn't matter how many times you cut
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this you can use this some other place so you're not you're not wasting it if you cut it wrong
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so just practice make sure you get it in there easy see that and then take the then take the paper off
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foreign
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without touching if you can help it
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and then go from this one go from The Middle to the top
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and then from The Middle to the bottom and then work your way outside
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[Music] see it's much of a lower sound than this
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hear that that's a low that's a tenty sound and this
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it's more of a thud so that's that's what you're looking for and so what we'll do over here is we'll
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get our pieces back
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and if you got some scraps before you finish just come over here and say you know hey maybe I can fit
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uh one more piece in here
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the more you can fit in here the better I don't go crazy but
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uh well here's what I'm saying that is you're not gonna go back once once you do this you're not going
1:02:32
to go back and you're going to fix it you're going to put the insulation over it and that's
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the last time this thing will see daylight
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all right so we got this all put together here um
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let's see if you guys can foreign get a picture of that before I go
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further you might use it as the thumbnail
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yeah yeah spam I see the spam of the chats
1:03:20
let's go to the camera
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foreign
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foreign
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so come over here on the computer if you guys can see in her video
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it's hard to zoom in I got to get a little app for this computer but anyway so what we did was we just
1:04:30
put them inside these Chambers here okay so that's what we did and now we're going to stuff in the insulation
1:04:40
so yeah it'd be good for me to let me move the computer the camera
1:04:48
all right hopefully it might make anybody sick [Laughter]
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foreign
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all right so we have our
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stuff in here taking our roller we've gone over what we can actually get our
1:05:35
hands on be careful this is metal here not to cut you but it will scratch the
1:05:42
van and then um so one thing on Ford Transit there's a
1:05:49
chamber down here uh
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I drop stuff in there all the time so I have magnetic tools I always get it out if it's a screw or whatever
1:06:01
but be very careful about dropping stuff down in here
1:06:07
just almost dropped that um it goes down all the way in here like a
1:06:12
cavity and there's really no way to go and get it out except for the top so just heads
1:06:20
up all right um let's start with a bag here
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so we've got two pieces this is a driver's side low 8A driver
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side low 8B you'll notice that they've cut these
1:06:40
different so you're gonna we're gonna find out why
1:06:47
so the smaller one so this bigger one is probably going to go here first
1:06:54
and then go up under here
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so you see how they do that and that fits and then this smaller one
1:07:06
um so I need to
1:07:12
so part of taking this out is you have to disconnect a bunch of these sensors right here so
1:07:20
this is like a pigtail harness and this is uh these are grounding wires they go right here there's some bolts
1:07:27
that go with it to reconnect it to the Ford system um
1:07:34
we're not using these lights so I'll be wrapping these up moving them out of the way but if we decide to do the AC on this
1:07:41
van we're going to the wire is going to chase it gonna come through this cavity and come through
1:07:47
here to our battery system so we're still going to put the
1:07:53
insulation in because this whole point of this kit but we're going to make sure that we put
1:08:03
um we just we want to make sure that we write down that
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um that's that's something we get up on our to-do list we already come back over here and get this thing all put together
1:08:16
now you could put this behind this if you wanted to um
1:08:23
I'm gonna try to sneak it up behind this metal because that would be good to do that if
1:08:28
we can but I don't you don't want to compress this material
1:08:34
too much [Music] so we want this to kind of go up up to
1:08:41
here be very careful this metal is so sharp
1:08:48
so what I'm doing is I'm just pulling it up and I can see that we're going to have enough if I
1:08:55
just leave it like this I'll have enough okay so I'm gonna take this
1:09:01
very carefully without getting cut I'm going to push it up
1:09:08
up under here be very careful
1:09:23
and then this is going to go down here all right and so it's going to be flush with that
1:09:29
place I told you where I we you lose things it's going to come up this Channel and
1:09:34
it's going to be back behind this wall so that's going to be your first piece then you'll follow it up with the second
1:09:41
piece and the second piece there's a channel up here see where my hands going and it goes up to this lip right here
1:09:50
so I'm going to take it and we're going to go up high first
1:09:57
because we can always pull down if we go too high it's hard to go the opposite direction
1:10:03
I'm going to take this and we're just going to stuff it down here in the bottom until it's nice and even
1:10:10
okay and then you know you can kind of fluff this up if you
1:10:15
want to something like that you don't what gives
1:10:21
insulation it's value is the air space
1:10:28
airspace right here airspace through here this fluff
1:10:34
this if this was smashed it's not going to do anything airspace
1:10:40
is what gives you the your r value or your insulative value
1:10:48
so don't smush this in if anything kind of leave it just nice
1:10:53
and loose okay like that and then when you put the panel on if
1:10:59
the panel smushes it that's fine but just keep it as Loose as you can
1:11:04
next we're going to go to this next piece this is
1:11:10
driver side low 7B 7A this is pretty self-explanatory it's
1:11:16
going to go in there like this okay they're both cut the same so don't worry
1:11:22
about you know which one is which um
1:11:29
see since you guys can see me I'm gonna come up a little bit on the camera
1:11:36
so it's not always chopping my head off there we go
1:12:06
all right so so now we're going to take this and again this is the dangerous one
1:12:13
these are very very sharp so you just kind of kind of stuff it down here like this you can fold it
1:12:19
that's okay we'll fold it in stuff it
1:12:25
and then let it kind of pop out up into the top and you can kind of so what I'm doing is
1:12:32
I'm going to pinch it like this and I can just move it around like that okay
1:12:38
and that way it's I know it's not smushed in there okay so once one's in
1:12:46
then you're gonna get the next one just fold it like this
1:12:52
get that tail going down
1:13:00
and let it kind of flare out then pinch it
1:13:15
just like that and you kind of pull it pull it towards
1:13:20
you shake it let it let it make sure it gets nice and fluffed out it's not compressed
1:13:27
coming on back now you can see we've got two different sizes see that
1:13:33
so if you put your hand in there gently there is the back side is bigger in the
1:13:40
front what's closer towards you is smaller so the smaller piece is going to be going last
1:13:46
this bigger piece is going to go in first and don't get ahead of yourself I almost
1:13:52
did we didn't sound proof this one so this is the last one we're going to do for a second
1:14:13
I'll make sure it's nice and fluffed up that is going to give you the best insulated value
1:14:35
you can push it to make sure it's nice and even just make sure you pinch it
1:14:44
just shake it and fluff it up there you go just like a pillow you're like you're fluffing a pillow exactly
1:14:52
all right we're going to keep on going back here see what time it is
1:14:59
yeah we'll probably do strain for about 10 more minutes
1:15:04
so 10 minutes left on this and then so I'm going to go ahead and sound proof
1:15:09
this it'll probably take me 10 minutes at least two sections and then I'm going to put the panel over
1:15:15
it and that will be a one completed section out of these uh
1:15:21
sections so we got one two three sections and that'll be the end of the Stream So
1:15:28
if you guys are with me still have a question put it in the chat and I'll answer it in
1:15:35
about 10 minutes
1:15:42
if it's adventure wagon related it's a bonus
1:16:10
foreign
1:16:35
so this is a perfect example of using your scrap pieces I need a piece that looks just like this to go right here
1:16:44
and I didn't even have to cut it
1:16:58
remember if you can get your roller in here do it
1:17:18
foreign
1:17:45
[Music] foreign
1:18:10
and bigger this is a tapered there's two tapers here so the smaller one this time
1:18:16
it's not going to go out so it's going to go inside
1:18:24
and then the bigger one is going to go outside
1:18:32
leave it loose shake it make sure it's nice and fluffed
1:18:52
foreign
1:19:29
foreign [Applause]
1:20:03
[Music] foreign
1:20:44
foreign
1:21:01
so we'll just stuff them in here now this one there's a big opening on the bottom
1:21:07
I don't know if you guys can see that there's a big opening right here so we're going to put it up in here first
1:21:15
pulled up through foreign I like to do one at a time even though
1:21:22
they're both the same because I just want to make sure they're not
1:21:28
pinched on anything and because you
1:21:54
all right so you guys can see I already have two little baby cuts on my hand
1:22:03
um so even being careful uh it's just really sharp the metal is just really sharp so be careful let me
1:22:10
get a Band-Aid real quick
1:22:42
all right
1:22:48
come back over here while I put this Band-Aid on
1:22:55
let's try not to do it without getting cut but how many times did I say you're going to get cut like 20
1:23:05
. the scary thing is the metal is so sharp you almost don't know know it until
1:23:10
later all right
1:23:16
sorry if anybody's squeamish
1:23:25
okay you're back to normal um so what we're gonna do
1:23:31
is I'm going to show you the pan I'm going to go back over here and I'm going to show you the panel that goes over it and then how that's attached and then
1:23:38
we'll go ahead and end the Stream
1:24:05
all right so one more reason that the adventure wagon stuff is so cool is
1:24:11
because this is that Riga hexa material I was talking to you about but everything with the bump outs and
1:24:16
everything look at this they they foiled they do a foil liner
1:24:22
it's about an eighth of an inch thick and I mean
1:24:29
again it is premium it is expensive kit but it's everything is well worth it
1:24:36
um not sponsored just letting you guys know that um I just I like
1:24:42
they've impressed me with their craftsmanship so just double checking everything I'll
1:24:50
be taking this off many times that is another cool thing about a venture wagon is
1:24:56
the panels you can take on and off multiple times
1:25:01
so for this bottom one just for sake of this video I'm not going to do everything I'm not
1:25:07
going to put the whole system in because this middle this middle section holds this and this
1:25:14
so you can imagine it is kind of a little bit of a puzzle so since I don't have a floor in here
1:25:20
that's another thing if you can install the adventure wagon kit without having your floor be
1:25:26
installed that is preferred in my book because
1:25:31
um you can walk around you can cut stuff you can sweep out your van you don't have to worry about damaging the floor
1:25:39
also they leave you some room so if if I
1:25:44
put this panel in so it just kind of comes in there like
1:25:50
that nice and clean pre-cut out you can still use your tie down from your wheel well
1:25:56
if you just have like you still want to use this as more like utilitarian you want an interior but you're going to
1:26:03
have like dirt bikes and stuff you want the tie down points and maybe you're not doing a floor you're doing a mat so check it out Adventure wagon
1:26:11
this is only about a quarter of an inch off the floor so if you need
1:26:19
if you have just the factory mat it'll still be a clean install
1:26:26
um of course when I get done with this uh I haven't decided if I'm
1:26:35
going to leave it like this and build around this or do something different I
1:26:40
got a couple options because I love the ABC rig flooring that we put in Thomas's van but for this build with
1:26:49
the shower and the refrigerator over here the water system I really need everything to be as
1:26:55
low as possible so I might just put a thin half inch piece of uh
1:27:01
insulation like the pink insulation on the bottom that foam so the
1:27:09
that type of foam and then once I do that uh everything can be built up on it so
1:27:16
it won't actually be like an insulated Floor Wood lawn seal then the components
1:27:22
it'll probably just be half inch of the poly ISO insulation
1:27:29
um and then I'll build the 80 20 frame up over that and then this rig of hexa
1:27:36
will be built into the 80 20. and then you'll have that foam and I'll
1:27:42
either do the foam or you can I also have more thinsulate so I
1:27:47
might do a thinsulate base um but there's a bunch of different ways
1:27:53
you can do it that's the kind of cool thing about this channel is I can show you kind of the different ways that I'm
1:27:58
thinking about doing it because there's really no rules just remember that if you want to do something creative you
1:28:03
can do it um but kind of think ahead of where what it's going to look like later I guess is
1:28:10
what I'm saying anyway so we put our sound deadening we put our installation in here shows you guys how actually let
1:28:17
me hop on the computer and talk to you
1:28:25
all right so showed you guys how to put the sound deadening material in there we talked
1:28:31
about the um uh the panels how they went in there uh what they were
1:28:38
numbered for the bottom section and then we also did the uh
1:28:43
that wood outside Nova's ready to go
1:28:51
all right guys that is the end what is my stream here we go get back
1:28:57
get back to green there we go all right guys that is it for the stream if you have any questions put them in
1:29:04
the comments below uh try to keep those questions on the adventure wagon thing because the next stream is going to be
1:29:10
finishing this up so pretty much put what we doing this week so if you're interested interested in that make sure
1:29:18
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1:29:28
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1:29:34
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1:29:41
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1:29:48
will see you guys in the next live stream
1:30:00
thank you
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