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Installing Swivel Seats In a Ford Transit (Scopema Swivel Seat)
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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome to live stream today we're working again on the Ford Transit and we're going to be installing these scopea swivel seats uh not
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sponsored but we got these from the swivel shop if you guys have not uh check these out um they've got a bunch
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here that you guys can pick from whether you have uh a metc a promas Ford Transit
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or Chevy Astro van I even saw the Ford E Series down here which is pretty cool
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and then something really quick uh for the ProMaster since that has a little
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awkward step down uh they've actually got this little fold out step that's pretty cool yeah I just thought I'd show
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you that um but we're going to get into the Ford on the inside we're going to uh we finally have put everything back
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together so the driver's side with all the Plastics um where the foot well is Gas
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Pedal brake that's all been put back together all the wires for the wolf box have been tied up um secured those are
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uh good to go on the right hand side we put in that goon table Mount we've upholstered that column again put all
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the Plastics back in So now on this driver's seat we are ready to put in the
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swivel base now if you're looking at the last
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couple live streams you say Nick you know you put a lot of time into the electrics and the power and all that stuff that's true and the reason why is
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because uh once you put the swivel seat in you cannot access anything underneath
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the seat so any of the uh uh you know cables or fuses or
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anything like that so you just want to make sure that you're done with that area before you decide to move on to the
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rest of the van um the swivel seat is really straightforward and um it's
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definitely something that everybody really loves to put into a uh Ford Transit and
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um so yeah we're going to hop in here and get started so
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so if you guys have any questions put those in the live chat happy to answer them can be anything van related doesn't
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have to be about swivel seats tonight but we're just going to put the seat in uh spin it around show you how to
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install it and then that's going to be pretty much it so not too long but live stream um but we'll go ahead and get
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started
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all right we're going to need uh we'll need a couple um things here to uh kick
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it off and one thing that we're going to do is talk about the tools
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needed so uh I believe this is a number five Allen wrich so we're going to need
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a number five or five I think it's a 5
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mm um we're going to need a/ in wrench um and then half inch uh
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ratchet uh some blue lock removable lock tight because you may want to get back
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in here and do some maintenance or check on your battery get your battery replaced uh just understand that you
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know if you are in the future uh if you need the battery replaced this is a brand new battery we
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put in here but if you need the battery replaced in the future um or if you need to charge the battery there's actually
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some a place in the hood that I'll I'll talk about later but if you needed to
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replace this battery you will have to take this swivel base off um so just uh
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just a heads up on
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that now there may be one thing that is uh I'm trying to figure out at the
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current moment um and it has to do with these uh the battery terminal studs here
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um I have a piece of Hardware that's
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going to be able to if these need to be relocated um I can do
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that but typically in these Vans there is a uh a battery cover so I think on
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the um the single battery it's different maybe it's different with a dual
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battery but I want to I'm trying to see how this base is going to interact with
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the battery terminals because we want to make sure that um there's no issue
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there so this is our base so I'm just going to put it on the back and I'm going to check my clearance
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to the battery
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and it looks good we've got a we got about a half inch so yeah half
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inch is okay because this is this base is not going anywhere um but just a precaution I want to put
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some electrical tape on these two studs that actually tighten
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down um it's more if so I don't miss up it's not that once we get finished it's
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going to be an issue in the future it's just when I'm moving this into place I don't want
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to touch any metal to metal I'm sure that makes
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sense so uh one thing that was really interesting today I got on my
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phone and we had an enormous amount of views on the
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phone and it was really interesting to me because um usually when we go live on
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the computer you know it takes a takes some time so I'm curious if
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the format on the uh the iPhone the fact that it's on a
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phone and it's like in a vertical orientation if that has anything to do
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with actual YouTube um pushing it out there cuz there was
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almost 30 300 people instantly on the stream and that's
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just I thought that was pretty interesting yeah all I'm doing is just
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uh these high spots in the terminal just putting a little tape on
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there
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yeah but we we might do more live streams with the phone that's pretty interesting to
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me
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for
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that
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all one more piece of tape here and we will have everything on the positive
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terminal nice and protected uh just from any possible
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arcing arcing during install so I just don't want to bump
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anything but that's all fine it's good to go uh again this this battery
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uh is uh fully topped off so we don't really don't have to worry about charging it but if you did need to
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charge this battery there are two special terminals inside under the hood of the van that's where you would jump
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start it um one's on the very far right and it's a uh that's the ground so it's
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within the hood hinge and then the positive is located in the middle middle
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uh more right hand side it's a plastic Red Cap with a positive terminal underneath that you
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can pop out and do a do a jump on
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it let's see got one little
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spot okay this is good to go next this is all
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set wires are set next this is important this is your connections for I believe
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it's your airbag communication uh for the chair for like your seating uh it's also the electrical
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supply for your Motors if you have a uh electronic seat adjustable seat um
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however this has a grommet over here and it's usually underneath the shield and over here to to the right so you'll need
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to pull that up and then move it into the battery box because if you can
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imagine this goes through the swivel in the center and this is going to move with the chair so you're going to want
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to make sure that this has enough room to actually move without
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binding um so when we pull get the swivel in here we'll put that through
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and then that'll be that'll be our first step um they're going to give you this
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bit of hardware and it's going to be in the middle of the swivel you just take it out you just pull the cap
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off you're all set um and then this is these are the what we'll be using to
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attach it to the base and then to eventually to the driver's
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seat so we're going to go ahead and grab our
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swivel and then going to come over here and we need to make sure so for example
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the reason I taped it is Imagine like if you twist this and it fell and hit the battery terminal that would not be good
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so we taped it just in case we mess up as
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possible um so what we want to do
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is we need to break it free so basically unlock it like we were going to swivel
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it without the seat there we go
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this is the way that you're going to be able to install it so all we did was open the latch up
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and then twist the top and so it offsets it and then it allows us to access
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our um holes for
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this all right now we're going to get our allen wrench okay and then the tapered
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head uh that is going to go in so that it sits very low and there's a like a
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chamfered edge that is going to go through um and then we're going to put our Loctite on
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here and we're just going to Loosely put this
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in um what I found is sometimes uh it's uh there's just a little bit of tweaking
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you got to do it might pinch a little bit um so we just want to make sure that we
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keep it Loose to get it aligned and then we'll evenly go ahead and start
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um bolting it
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down so you know how I told tell you guys that you know grade A are really good bolts uh for safety um and I use it
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for like the L track in the back and stuff like that these are actually grade
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10 according to the top of the screw which is pretty nice it's a little little
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bonus
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we're just going to tighten this in like an an x pattern for
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example
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okay then we can go in and kind of do our like our final tightening of
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these
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and you're basically getting to a point to where these things are seated and it'll be pretty much be to a point to
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where you cannot tighten anymore and then with the Loctite Drive
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uh it's going to be really really in there
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so even though it's blue Loctite it'll be hard to you're going to have to use
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some effort to get it I'm done okay so now we've got
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our swivel hopefully don't eat my words and
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tell you guys to put this through and then I have to undo it I think it'll fit through
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here actually I might have to undo
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those
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man it's so close okay I got to take him out loc TI's not dry
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yet
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let give me a chance to put more piece of extra tape on
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there all right so lift this up then get this through
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here so you don't mess up like I just
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did
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yeah make sure that is through or you will have to take it all
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apart and do it all over again so we don't need more Loctite
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these are lock tied very
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well
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yeah as as long as you get it before it dries it's easy they're easy to undo so if you mess up like
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that and the red knob obviously goes to the front because that's where you're going to grab it when you're seated in
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your seated
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position
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for
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okay so now you can see see how your seat
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operates so that's all the way to the back and then when you come to the
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front that locks into place so we want to undo it unlock it so we can access
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these bolts right here so take this drag it to the front
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because this is where uh this is going to bolt into your um into your seat
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now it doesn't matter if your seat is forward or backwards you're just going to want to have some place to start so
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maybe if it's on the ground you want to slide the track forward or backwards
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it's just it's pretty much whatever uh situation you find yourself
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in is how you're going to approach this um but really we're just going to
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uh move this
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around
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and then there's a bar underneath this seat and you want to make sure that your cable comes over that
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bar so it's a bar in the middle and you don't want it pinching your cable down you want the cable to go over it so lift
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it up and put it over that
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cable now you're pretty much just maneuvering this to
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get it to where you need it okay so I'm going to start with this back
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screw I actually might want to move the tracks forward just a little
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bit there we
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go
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for
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so we're going to take the bolt and we're going to put it underneath the
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swivel the washer has some lines on it you want those lines facing up and then you're going to put in your Nylock
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nut
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and whatever you do don't drop
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this I'm actually sliding the seat forward so I can get this front
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one uh I just lock my seat into position and then I'll tighten this one down and then I
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can go to the other one so they're not moving all over the
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place
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so while I'm up here I'm going to go ahead and plug in the under cable before I move to the
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back that way it's just out of my way okay so now I'm going to move this
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forward not all the
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way and then now I can slide it forward to get out of my way so I can put the last bolt in
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and that's pretty much
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it we're not going to do the passenger set yet cuz if you remember we still need to
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drop our gas tank um in order to put in the L track in the back drill the holes
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for those bolts as well as tapping the tank for the
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uh the gasoline uh fuel
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line
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okay now you can check locks into
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place see back it's all good now you'll just have to be mindful of it's spinning
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because obviously when you open it up or start to spin it this is going to hit
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this and scratch it so you just want to be able to pull it
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Forward um and
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then now the only thing about Fords is you'll have to crack the uh driver door
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open in order to swivel the seat um it's just that's just a quirk
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about a Ford transits so this right here it's going to hit the armrest of the
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door um and so now we can actually put in our
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seat belt your seat belt put back into
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place so the seat belt uses a
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t50 uh to reinstall it
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then there's one last piece of plastic that snaps uh going straight down to
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actually enclose the seat belt and the seat belt actually goes underneath
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the uh lever that uh lets you um bend
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the seat back cuz I know you guys can't see it
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from where you're sitting uh then all you want to do to
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spin it is just move the seat Bel over on the side
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or you can undo the seat belt and just bring uh move it on along
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the back of the seat and for your steering wheel you can
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undo it and then if it's extended push it in and up and that's going to help you get it
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out of the way as much as
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possible and so you just kind of have to I'm not doing this in this position
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but just got to play around with it so you can get it where you want to
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so with a fully extended Ford you can that's the best way
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to kind of move it around here and then what I do for you know showing the van
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off or just being inside the van when I get to this point uh I'll get my seat back
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comfortable so may be right there and then I can actually take it
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and I'll go back until it hits the uh the steering wheel and that's my rear
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most position that the seat can be in so so seat swivel seat is
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installed um this is the bracket that we installed uh for the Lagoon table you
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can mount it like this low Pro or you can kind of bring it up higher I think this is where I'm going to eventually
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have it um but yeah and
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then that's pretty much it
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guys
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all right let's get the camera back on over here all right short live stream hope
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to this event um a lot of fun we're going to have a lot of fun down there there's a lot of stuff to do uh all the
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camping tickets are sold out so the day passes are what you would want to get if if you want to come down check out the
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event there's tons of vendors uh myself included all kinds of stuff to do live
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sure there's a Friday huh might have to get some more
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