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May 3, 2025
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hey guys welcome back to live stream tonight we're going to be finishing up taking out the bed of my Ford Transit so
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on this left hand side uh a deer ran into the van so I was planning this summer to do
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what I'm doing right now and I've got a opportunity to yesterday and today to work on this so
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if you guys are wondering um how the bed was designed in the back of my van uh you'll be able to see it as I
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disassemble it um earlier on in this build which was a long time
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ago uh I didn't actually document how I bu built this um it was before I was
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doing this fulltime so you get to see it kind of in Reverse so what we're working
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with is a Ford Transit 2019 low roof 148 in and this platform
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back here was where I had a full-size uh mattress uh for the bed of the vehicle
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what I did in the last video is we took out the kitchen Galley um and toolbox
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that was in there and tonight we're going to be taking out this uh the bed rails and support system and the reason
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I'm doing this is the body shop in order to repair this van um and without having
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to take apart the rear panels they're going to need access to uh behind the
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wheel well here and as well as the inside of the B on both the driver um both areas on the driver side
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so tonight what we're going to do is we're going to remove the bed and the partition panel in the middle of the the
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van um that's the goal tonight so let's go ahead and hop over here and just get
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started taking stuff apart um as usual if you guys have any questions uh just hop on in the chat I'd
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be happy to answer them can anything to do with with Vans van building um happy
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to answer that um got a different camera lens here that I'm working with so shot
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might look better tonight
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possibly so where we left off was we were taking off this
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panel and this was uh what covered the refrigerator it had a
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bit of the overhead shelving and had just had this really nice contour line
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so the way that I got this contour line is uh I used a piece of foam
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cut out the general shape and then all you do is push it in trace it out with a pencil uh cut it out and then you just
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dial it in to you get it really nice once you're finished to take that like
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um let's see what was it uh poly ISO uh anyway the pink foam you can get
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like at Home Depot uh Lowe's has some but it's I think it's like a green color
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anyway that gets you a nice uh template to trace out and then you can get this uh piece of wood cut out
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and then upholstered so that's how this panel got
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done so yesterday we finished up with getting all the uh rear Electronics
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unplugged n NOA come here that's just me making
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noise so we've got our battery battery monitor we just took it
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out got our carbon oxide detector control for our diesel
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heater and this van had just the simple Amazon one
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installed which for DIY it's it's great um but if you're getting a professional
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build uh I would only put in a Webasto or an SAR heater um just for reliability
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and
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safety so I'm going to hop in and get the rest of the uh little plastic fittings taken out
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and then when I get down to the diesel heater tank in the back of the van what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to
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resupport it I'm actually not going to completely remove it at the moment
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so the goal of this is just to get the van set up to where the body shop can access the
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interior and get those dents popped out and then kind of do their thing they're definitely going to have
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to repaint the whole driver side uh portion of the van but yeah I just thought this video might
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be interesting to you so that uh if you do have some significant damage to your van
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this is something that you might have to consider doing
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so in your van design um just having accessibility to stuff like this
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sometimes it's not possible so sometimes you actually might have a van build where um this whole site is built in and
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it just kind of comes with a territory and doing custom work um
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so if you have something that's built in and you can't remove it uh that
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shouldn't deter you from not doing the uh the build itself
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this carpet that I'm pulling off this is just outdoor carpet gray um this stuff that's you know used
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on bass boats uh outdoor porches super cheap easy to work with
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it's pretty uh it's very thick so it's thicker than
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Marathon fabric but it's good for DIY you can
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pick it up at Lowe's Home Depot I think what I got specifically was Home
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Depot
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now the back of the van I built it with a ton of L brackets back here this uh before I did pocket hole
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screws or the Craig jig type thing and in some cases uh even when you
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do the Craig screw it's good to reinforce parts of your van
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so for John and Susan's B for example uh a lot of their stuff was
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um you know made like traditional cabinet making where wood glue cek
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screws for all the joints but then when I installed it for safety purposes I put
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uh I used L brackets um real chunky El brackets and bolted that into the van's
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uh chassis itself and uh the flooring system
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okay so next part we're going to take these this bigger piece of fly wood out
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so this is just one solid piece here not sure how much you can see it on the
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camera this is the only piece covering our bed rails
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if you notice I don't have any mold or anything like that on here this was not treated or anything
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not sealed just raw wood with that carpet uh glued on top of
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it so this is almost three or four years and uh you
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know I've had all kinds of stuff on the bed the bed itself and only thing that's behind here is just a little bit of dirt
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okay and this is just a half inch half inch piece of
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plywood and I think I had to come through the D door over here to get this
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in and out
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I do want to reuse the four-way stretch carpet so I'm trying not to completely destroy it
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okay now you can see the bed rails now these are not ideal because these are two by or one by ones or 2 by
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tws um you'd want to use probably a 2x4 or
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even the Ikea method for a DIY as far as uh rails that go
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across CU these are not the way that I did this um had to do
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with clearance I had a speaker that I was transporting back and forth and this I
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needed a half an inch so I couldn't turn the uh the width sideways and the transition where the
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bed goes needed to be flat so when I take these out you'll see
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what I'm talking about I have two uh 2 by tws on the left and right
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hand side that are bolted into the chassis of the van and that is what I'm uh using to attach these pieces
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got a little frame over here that I used to hold the tank in place and just upholstered it
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so this just a simple it's just you know just plywood 2x4s 2 by
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twos so you really can just do a really simple build
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now I will have to address this tank uh I do need to remove it but I'm
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going to do that
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tomorrow so hopefully that will keep that in place until tomorrow
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um take this tire out of here
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and we're not going to be reusing this so uh we're not worried about stripping
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anything or do anything like
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that so yeah these bed rails are just plain old now these are weird these
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are not 2x4s these are uh uh one by twos I guess you would
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it this was all done during the pandemic so uh 2x4s were a little wild pricewise
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is
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now I still got a lot of wires back here that I'm going to have to kind of take care of one by one
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so you can see on this uh left side what we have is this wood Rail and if you were doing
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something in your van just super simple there's are these uh holes drilled into the side of the
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board Transit and you can actually take a bolt and a washer push it through the
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backs side and then you can bolt in uh you can bolt I've done it with a 8020
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reil so aluminum uh piece of angle iron wood and
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it just get you a solid attachment point to build off of in this case we're
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building off of it for the uh um for the bed system
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okay I'm back went to the other side of the shop uh let's see so this might be more challenging
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than I thought cuz that fuel line has got fuel o in it
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and want to see how I want to take it out without getting diesel all over the van
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H this might be a short live stream guys so while I am working
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on figuring out how to get this tank out if you guys have any questions put that
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in the chat while I'm working on this uh little situation over here with a
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diesel anyway so if you guys are just watching now we are disassembling my personal Ford Transit because we need to
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do some uh body repairs after a encounter with a deer and uh yeah it's required me to
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basically take take the build out of the van to have them have access to the inner sides of these uh panels to push
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the dent out and actually do the repair correctly um it's not a superficial Dent
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the deer kind of went down the whole entire side of the van so it kind of sucks but I wanted to got this van out anyway
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because uh I'd like to be able to have my uh motorcycle come up in uh be
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strapped down into the van and transport it instead of having a rear hitch mounted
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transport so that's cool because we'll be putting a floor system like we do in all of our customer builds in here so
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just clean floor um we're going to panel the walls
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um I'm considering keeping this four-way stretch carpet uh visible in the
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back um and but the bed system i' I'd like to have a bed system to where I can
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still have a motorcycle in here and then have a bed over here maybe more like a bench
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seat um that's the compromise you have with building van is you know do you want a
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fixed bed do you want a bed that can be taken out so you can put furniture or you know stuff or do you want kind of
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like a hybrid where you have this equipment in the van but you still have room to do your sleeping
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Arrangement um you know for at least like two people on the left hand side
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so we'll have to see where that's going to be uh how that's going to work
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out um what to do
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all right guys well what we're going to do is we're going to call it for tonight on this uh this little demo
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um I'm going to get a I'm going to get some buckets and stuff set up so I can actually drain this diesel out of here
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take the line off run the line through the panel I made it to where there's like one hole drilled in the panel
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there's not like a a u Notch so I can't take the panel out unless I feed the
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line through um so I'm going to handle that
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we'll probably get back to this on Monday and so we'll check that off the
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list we'll get this partition out of the way and then I'll show you guys uh how I mounted this bed rail um what's behind
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these two panels and kind of what the plan is going forward cuz the van has to go to the body shop on Monday so
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