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May 27, 2025
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hey guys welcome back to the live stream today we are in the shop working on
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Lonear um excellent news rome rest dinette uh seat benches and all that
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stuff came in so we're going to show that uh probably tomorrow i'll probably
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get to that tomorrow um I was about to not record this and I was like "Hey I need to jump in here and record some
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plumbing." So we're installing the water tank and fittings in the back of the van
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so we're just going to get right into it this is a 36gallon water tank from Northwest
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Conversions and um it's pretty much for any van so this is what they call an
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over the wheel well water tank so if you can see here we've got this part on the
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bottom of the tank is actually where uh the wheel well is in the
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van so if you've never heard of this it's called a over the wheel well water
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tank and then if we just look in the van really quick you can
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see over here we've got our kilmat um so
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we've got everything sound deadened we're actually going to in a minute we'll be layering our Havlock over this
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and then what you want to do is just kind of uh I've already put this in and then taken it back out so I know exactly
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how much I want to put in here um so I've got this insulation in there and
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I've got it just enough to where it doesn't compress it too much but fills it up and then what I've also done and
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again this is kind of uh the monotonous part of the ban
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building is putting the tank in taking it out in out in out so what I've done
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is I've got a bracket right here and that locks in my position of the water
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tank because what happens is this over the wheel well water tank it's not perfect to a Ford Transit it's meant for
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it's like a universal fit let's call it that so what can happen is this uh front
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part can go forward of the wheel well or back behind the wheel well
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and for building purposes I need this to be fixed in a location so I can define
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where the water pump's going to be connected in the back of the van where the drain and vent pipes are going to go
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so we'll show that in just a second so that bracket locks in one of these edges of my water tank so even when I put the
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insulation in the water tank is going to sit in a fixed location and so our frame that's on the
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floor on the right hand side of the van you can't see right now those pieces will be assembled around this and then
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we can do our final measurements so that we can assemble those and then this uh dinette bench on the right hand side
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will be ready to go so what we're doing over here on the
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right hand side is it's the same as the left side except the right hand side is going to be a dinette bench that's going
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to house the water tank the water pump the vent and drain lines
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um and it's going to house two lagoon tables in this front section and it'll
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have a lid on it and then you'll have the seat cushions on top and so it'll be storage for that uh there'll be a small
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storage area over here just kind of like a random area um and that's going to be
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how you're going to be access the valve for the drain uh I typically put the valve for the drain under the van but I actually
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have room under here to do that with this
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one so let's hop on over to this get
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this back into frame all right all right so what you're looking at if we rotate
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this you can see we got the wheel well there so this is the top of the
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tank and this uh I typically use this for a vent port however we have the same
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fittings on the back side of the tank so this front side is going to be towards the front of the van and that is going
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to only have the pickup for the water pump so we have our PEX A fitting that's
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going to be a pickup for the water pump it's going to go into here and then
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over here we have a plug and you get two of these plastic
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plugs they come with the water tank and so this is going to go in here
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um so now I'm back to where I was before I started the stream so I wanted to show
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you how I assembled this and I've done this in a bunch of
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live streams so if you want to go into some past live streams
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and look at them to see what I've done water tank install-wise that's
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always a good thing to do so I wrap this about three or four times
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and depending on your water tank it's it's just gonna depend on you're gonna have to get a feel
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for these fittings right here and what I mean by that is it's the tightness of
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them um because it's a pain in the butt if you put this tank in and you kind of
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have it practice on these leaks because if you put the tank in and something's dripping for example it's difficult to
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get to this after the fact uh when it's in the van to undo this and then reset
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it so try to do this is why I'm doing all these fittings on the outside of the van and then I'll put the tank
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in um so I'm using this stuff is called Mega Tape and then the next thing that I'm
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using is something called uh Recctor Seal Slow Dry Softs Set number five it's
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a pipe thread sealant and it's NSF rated so it's food safe and this is just a
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little this is just a little extra protection
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um it's good to like kind of shake this thing up sometimes it's not perfectly mixed
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anyway uh but this is not this is just a backup
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plan so what this does is it goes on as a liquid and it dries almost to like a
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putty and you just need just a hair of this stuff i mean just not a lot
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and it's kind of weird to work with when you first work with
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it and so I've never seen anybody use this this is just my own personal
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research of finding things that I
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uh finding things that allow me to feel confident that my customers are not
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going to have any issues later with their
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van okay so see we put this in and then get this uh get this started by hand
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um and then so we got this right here you guys can see it in the bottom of the screen there you
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go and then let me let me bring the lights in a little bit
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closer okay so we're just going to take it now remember this is plastic we're in a better situation here
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this is plastic on plastic but we don't want to crank it down here we just want to use this kind of
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uh to get this
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going just like
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that yeah just want to go by feel on this there you go we don't want to crank
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it down on the this part of the uh ratchet so now we can just kind of go here and
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just with your fingers just try to barely tighten it um and again with
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these tanks it's kind of like I don't want to call it like an art form but you just got to be really careful you don't have to be so careful
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with plastic on plastic when we get over here to this one where we have the
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uh this PEX A fitting on the metal to plastic you can get plastic
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fittings you see we have these PEX A you can get them
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um and I also did a whole entire video about you know what is better to use is
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it better to use metal uh or plastic for freezing
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purposes and really there was no conclusive evidence that one is better
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than the other um I just think these are I I don't know
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my gut just tells me these are stronger even though the research shows that
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these are just as strong they're all made to the pretty much the the same standard so whether you use plastic or
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metal it doesn't matter whether you use plastic metal and freezing it doesn't
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matter at the end of the day if you don't drain your tank properly to winterize it
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um it it you know metal or plastic are not really going to save you at the end of the day just you need to really make
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sure that you you drain it
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properly okay okay like I said three or four times on
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this and then don't let any of this get into the valve because even though you
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have a pump strainer you just don't want like a hair of this getting through and kind of sneaking its way into into the
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pump although it should never make it there if you do have a pump
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strainer and also you don't want this you want this stuff on the edge but you don't want it to get into
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uh like where it's going to be sucked into the intake or where the pickup is for
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the water pump so I have that and then I just I just do a little ring of
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that and then that's going to go right into here
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um before you actually
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uh twist these in make
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sure bring that
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across well don't do what I'm doing i took it back out which you probably
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shouldn't do let me cut that piece
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off okay so what I was trying to say before I take this out is you need to go through and fill the threads first and
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then you can go in and put this back
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in because these threads the part that's melted into the plastic is usually
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crooked so for example this
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one okay there we
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go all right let me get a wrench we'll tighten that one in
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all
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right
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all
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right so that one's all set so next we're going to go to the back side i'm put that in the van
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to do that one
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and I have found with these the depth on this on these tanks it's going to be always just right at
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this edge almost as if this is going into the tank so that's why this one is
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um just right there on the very outside and we're just going to
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lightly so that's good so again we don't want to
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Don't want to overdo
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it so if you guys are watching if you have any questions on this just uh put those in the chat
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so the next one we're going to have an angled piece and this angled piece is going to be for our vent line at the
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back of the tank
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so for the vent line we're going to use this hose
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um so we're use this clear hose and the reason we're using this clear hose is we
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have a this uh screened this is actually for a a
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boat like a like a live well um breather vent for a boat what's nice is it's ched
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it's got a nice seal and what I do is I drill a hole through the body of the van
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or the floor of the van and this goes underneath the van and this vent tube
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will connect to this hose like this and so this will be at the bottom
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of the van like that and so when you fill the tank up when
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this starts leaking out from under the bottom of the van it's designed to do that then you know that your tank is
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full um also this is there so that the tank this
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tank can breathe so when water is displaced uh by the air that comes in so when you
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pump the water out it creates like a vacuum and this right here is where it
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sucks up air to relieve that vacuum so you can keep
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pumping down here at the bottom left this is for the uh this is the drain
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valve and what I tell my customers is this is a half-inch drain valve so it does slowly drain the tank if you have
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this completely full so what I tell them to do is open up the drain valve the
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half inch then get your spray wand turn your water pump on and then discharge
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the rest with the pump and that'll get the tank empty fairly
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quickly all right so this one over here this one's a little tricky too i put a little extra tape on this one because
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what I want to do is I don't want to bury I don't want to bury this fitting
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uh too much because the thickness of this tube and the thickness
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of this hose clamp um has to be taken in
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consideration so what I'll do is I'll just get this uh almost all the way in
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and then I'll double check that I can still put the hose back up on there
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so you can see I have this i'm just put a little ring of so I got about four
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wraps four or five wraps i'm going keep my threads exposed
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just a little bit so I can get make sure this is uh
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started and especially with the metal ones you just you just don't want to force
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it okay so right [Music]
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there see if I can possibly I might be able to get one more
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turn if I get one more turn in and it's too tight I might have to
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redo
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it yeah that's perfect
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now what I'm doing just wiping this soft set around there that's just me being mean kind of like OCD about what it
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looks like it doesn't really make it if you don't seal it on the inside with the tape that then whatever you do on the
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outside is not going to matter all right let's see so now I just
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want to make sure that I can still fit this in
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here okay there you go so see I can still fit it so when I get get to that
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point it'll still work all right then we have one more down
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here and this one
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So we're going to do a straight fitting on this one if if we did an elbow on this one
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it's going to be too close this one down here at the bottom
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we have a we have this uh drain valve and so for this drain valve I want it I
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need it to be offset so we're going to come out straight and then we'll have a piece of
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tube and then we'll turn it we'll have the tube come down and that offset will
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allow us to uh open and close
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this of course let's see maybe I changed my mind
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so when we were back here the other day here let me change the
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camera this way can see what I'm talking about over
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here hold on
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okay so this piece is going to go down to here and so this has already been So this is what I'm saying about measuring
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this center line is going straight up to this vent so that clear hose is going to come straight down there
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now I I've got a pilot hole drilled but at the same time I haven't committed to
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my final uh drain for this vent and so what I'm doing is uh in just
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a second you'll see why um
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All right going to do some thinking right now so give me just a minute
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all
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right guys so I'm going to be doing a bunch of thinking right now so it's not going to be too
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much narrating uh I guess I need to
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finalize a couple of ideas that I've [Music] been thinking about for this
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Okay for this one I'm going to change back i'm going to put the valve under the
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van because typically this area on other vans that I do this is not a storage area but for this van I'm trying to
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maximize every nook and cranny uh to make
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storage and I don't
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want Jim and Linda put in storage in here and then it accidentally
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shift and move the valve open now there's you can change the valve you
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could put like a a needle valve or whatever but it doesn't it doesn't uh drain the ball valve is what drains the
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fastest so yeah so this will be the plan so we're going to we'll come out
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[Music] um we'll do this after we put the
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insulation stuff in but we'll come out here come over and
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then this will actually come over and come down and it'll go through the bottom of the
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van and then there's a kit that I use it's a O-ring kit
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um or grommet kit and so what you do is you find the
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appropriate grommet and then you take this this one
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for example and then this one you're going to drill through the sheet metal of the van
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um you'll put a little bit of uh RTV for uh sealant or silicone and then you put
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the PEX through and this way it doesn't vibrate and cut the the line this will
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make sure that it doesn't get cut
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anyway we have we got time to do that we're just test fitting this
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But we're going to be going with this straight one regardless so let's go ahead and install it
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[Laughter] hey Jim yeah so quick answer to that
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uh the the the sloshing you're not going to it's um think of the pressure the the
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valve right here for the vent that it's the orifice is too small so that when if
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it does slosh the pressure is not going to allow it to really come out i mean it might be a couple drips if anything um
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so it's kind of like like the physics of water if this
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if we had this as your vent and this was going down to the van yeah the slush would come and go through but we're we
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have a fitting that's the opening is this the opening is this big so it's
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really tiny so it's uh for example even if you fill this
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tank up this pressure it still has built up pressure to even start to come out of
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this so you're not going to it wouldn't be hardly any significant amount of
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water
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loss that's a good question though
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if you guys are wondering Jim that just uh put a question in the chat this is
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his van so something pretty cool about the live
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stream it's uh got live Q&A gets a ask questions about your van learn about
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it but yeah you're not going to lose any significant amount of water that's for
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sure
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and again when you're installing these don't use your hand at the at the top of this don't crank it on the
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uh the side that's got all the leverage cuz it's
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um yeah you don't want to mess up now the fun part about being a van
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builder is I will go and pressure test this and there are places where uh I've had to go back and fix like a
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little mini drip um so it just kind of comes with the
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territory so you can do it as perfect as you want but until you test
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it that's really where you just got to test it that's all
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yes i'm just going really easy on this one
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okay all right looks good and again me just wiping this off
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it's just my OCD this is not made to
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seal uh because it's a soft set material so it kind of never it never really
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hardens it's always it's always
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uh kind of like a tacky so for example if if you need to
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take this fitting out and redo it for example you can definitely do
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that okay
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so so we are good with that
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um okay excellent what we're doing here this is
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the base of Let me zoom the camera
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out this is the base of the dinette all right all right I guess I could give you guys a sneak peek of the
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Rome Rest it's exciting it's uh the quality
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is out of control i've done this on one other van
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but this this van's a little bit more special because this is the first time it's my design and it's my
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uh I guess custom custom pattern i mean not pattern
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but uh yeah it's something I designed
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in-house and it's it's it's real so check it out here
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is cushion look at that here's the custom notch coming up so check that out
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watch this all right you guys are seeing this for the first time so if it fits we did a good job if
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not uh well we don't have that option so let's see how perfect this
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came look at that perfection like
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perfection yeah so this is the company Romerest Rest so I met uh one of these
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guys I met about three years ago at a van show in Tennessee Overland Expo East if you guys
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got to go to that they don't do that event anymore um
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unfortunately yeah um man this material matches the heather gray
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perfectly now this right here see this edge this is on purpose
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okay this coming over here because the door you still get this open you still get this dip in the door right here so I
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really wanted to bring this out um as far as possible so Jim if you're
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watching let's see if we got our number boom 72 in right there on the
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money we got 72 should be 22.5 yep
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um let's go ahead and put the back rest in just just
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for curiosity
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okay so here's our back
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rest and I mean I haven't put anything any snaps or nothing on it
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yet but I like that that looks nice
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oh yeah seating height is
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good so what this will do is this will come out like
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this this will come out here this will fall back into place and
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then this will be like that so this will be the
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bed now this can be here or this can be in the middle so this can
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actually you can keep this cushion you can keep it here and then
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you can just take this out and put this in the middle which that's that's pro that's probably what
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you're going to do you're probably going to do something like that um yeah
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so that's exciting that still looks so
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good yeah this bottom is going to stay in place this top [Music] one i think what we're going to do is
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just do
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um thinking snaps or velcro i'm not sure yet i'm not sure on the top of this
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yet so
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Okay that was our sneak peek at the
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mattress so next we just got to take all these little Lego pieces I've made
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and get this dialed in
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i've got all these pieces that I've I've pre-cut
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Now this may fall but that's just the way it
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is okay just finalizing these dimensions
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so we use a pocket hole and Craig screws to assemble
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this um if I can get that lagoon
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table all
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right where'd I put the lagoon table
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i have to modify both of them because I need to take off a half an inch
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there it is all
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right so what we got here this we're going to have this uh slip in
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storage for these lagoon tables so they come in they're going to
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drop in just like this and we've got two
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uh two locations for this we've got one one at the front which we're going
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to mark really quick
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so I have one there we'll have a
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divider and this is a half inch that I got to take off so we'll have one there then we've
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got a divider then a second
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one store right down in here
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that's perfect that's awesome excellent so we have one storage
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here for this one we'll have another storage over here for this one and then this back section this is going to be
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closed off back here um but what we'll have is we'll actually have a
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uh this will be a half inch piece of plywood that you can that is removable
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um we'll just have the hinge right here for these Lagoon table mounts we got a
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72 inch piano hinge and
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um so you'll be able to access the water pump and the strainer the hinge will
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come up around here and then you can use this uh back storage area
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all right so let's go ahead and put these little Lego pieces together and move forward with this
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so if you're building your own van uh one thing you want to do is you want to have a couple pieces of wood that are
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your uh like this piece this is a standard offset
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size so what this is going to do is make sure that this
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piece is stays uh where it's supposed to be
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almost like a almost like a reference piece if that makes sense
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so back here where you can't see I have my uh see how much can we get the camera in
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here
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let's zoom into this pump real quick
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okay for the pump on your van it's just a 12volt water pump it's a Seaflow uh it's one I really like you
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don't have to use an accumulator with this one um it has a variable
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uh fl uh variable flow so it can ramp up slowly and then decrease so you don't
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have those like surges but you're going to look on here with these arrows and the arrows are indicating where the pickup and the
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discharge is so on the pickup side is where we're going to put our strainer
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uh to protect the pump and so we want it on this side of where we open this for the hinge so that
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we can um and again we're just
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temporarily screwing all the stuff on so this is going to go like
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that and then we're going to have
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a piece that we can actually screw onto here
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then we want to come and I'm just bringing it in and out back here um just
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to check our clearances
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also the fitting I'm using here so we're going to have the PEX pipe come
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up but we want this fitting right here to be able to be unscrewed and connected
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to the PEX so that if we have to ever replace this pump in the future we can just take it
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out put the new one in and then this can just uh be tightened up here just like
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that so we're probably going to do the pump in this orientation and then we'll have a
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secondary screw on PEX line and so this will be our main our main uh cold water out so this
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will go up and then we'll have
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another we'll have another
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90 so P's going to come like this have another 90 and that's going to be going into our kitchen
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galley so this one will actually be mounted up here on the
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wall all right so that's good it all fits this is our additional cable back
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here for some uh outlets and stuff like that and then we have our room back here
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for um our drain line from the sink so next
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what we're doing is we just need
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to cut two of these pieces
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okay so we got 22 we're do an inch and a
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half 20 and a half so one two
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One two three
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zoom the camera out
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okay so we're going to do four pieces at 20 and a half and what that's going to do for us is that's going to locate
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uh the rest of this build for
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us actually I think we can
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do three at three at 20 and a half
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all right might write down our final measurements so we needed to bring up because of
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the 500lb drawer slides on the driver's side we needed to bring
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the passenger side up quarter of an inch so the height final
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height 16 and a quarter by the tank so the offset is
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20 and a half inches
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uh our front back this
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up this way when you guys come back later this afternoon for the stream this will all make sense
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um so we have this front rail that's 72 in it's
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touching the kitchen galley the kitchen galley was set where this 72 would come out right
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here at the back of the door so this is our furthest we could push this whole entire thing back that's why the cushion
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overhangs just a little bit because once we put the half inch uh facing panel back here at the back to
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close this in it'll all be flush so these are 272 this tank is 16
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inches um but there's a little bit of variance in the tank the tank is not a perfect square so it might be up a
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little bit on the front down a little bit in the back so what it's averaged at
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to be safe is 16 and 1/4 in high so the 8020 that's bolting the kitchen
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in that's at 16 and a quarter so we just need to add in a quarter inch of these
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uh supports here at the front so that'll get the height perfect and then we'll do four
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um pieces going horizontally here that are now 20 and 1/2 in and that will
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uh let's see here
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20 so we need to the final face is 22.5 so it needs to be 22
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in but we still need to be able to fit the Lagoon table mount in
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here so let me pop this in just slide it in
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okay so there's our lagoon table so we got 22
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in and we still have uh looks like 3/4 inches of wiggle room
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that's That's perfect that'll give us enough to uh That's great that's perfect
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so yeah 20 and a
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half [Music] 22.5 right
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there so that final came to 22 and eighth
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so if you're wondering why I'm questioning all the measurements what happens is when we add the upholstery
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fabric to the rear wall panel and then when we bolt the rear wall panel in and
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then we add our riv nuts and all that stuff you can calculate that as close as you possibly can that's why we're in the
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ballpark here but all these so the layer back from here everything bumping up
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against each other when you were touching the metal and you had 22 and 12 inches you were in perfect world but now
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that quarterinch offset thickness of the fabric riv nut screws
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tank um so the what's funny about this is the part that is making everything
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challenging is the lagoon table this is where I want to store it so if we didn't have lagoon tables in
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here we could just you know we could have this exactly where we want but I
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want to make sure that when I put it I put the lagoon table mount in this all fits so I need to push this
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in because I can't change where this kitchen galley is now the offset of the kitchen galley is what's changing these
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measurements um because of where its final location
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to be bolted in is okay okay so now I got that half
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inch push
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back that brings
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us now we're 21 and 3/4 off the
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wall 21 and 3/4
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okay so the bottom is 21 and 3/4 let's check the top
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okay so 21
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3/4 all right good bring this over
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here right there
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all right so the whole point of the exercise is can we get this face even with the
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face of the kitchen galley so this looks nice and clean and professional but can we still after all this offset from the
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wall can we still fit the lagoon table that we plan to put in here answer is yes so pump fits this fits
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now so now we can actually bolt the frame together so we'll do a this outer uh 2x4 frame then
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we'll do the 20 uh Okay what so
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this is why I talk to myself i need to make
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sure okay so
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20 so that's a half inch
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okay so to make this this is all the stuff you got to
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think about guys so we want a half inch face for the
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piece of plywood to make that flush with the kitchen galley we got to back
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up and 20 not 20 and a half 20 and an
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eighth is our offset now so it's a good thing that we double
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check that so let's write that down
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it's not 20 and a half 20 and eighth 20 and 1/8 and that'll maintain our
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offset 16 and a quarter high 20 and eighth off
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72 and then the fun part is we'll just come back in and we can finish off these
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supporting blocks um and that'll all bolt in bolted in the
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side of the van and the floor and that'll hold everything together nice and nice and
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safe all right let's check the chat really
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quick looking good
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okay so I'm going to disassemble this um put it back together and then we'll we'll come back in on the next live
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stream and we'll be going to the next step which is tighten up all the little
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pieces we'll cut our top piece
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um yeah should be good should be good to go
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there all right so before we leave just wanted to show you guys a couple things here on
1:20:53
the computer um I went and updated uh the website Odyssey Custom Vans
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so first off if you're not subscribed to Van Builder HQ go ahead and click the subscribe button i'd really appreciate
1:21:11
it um also I now have a DIY camper van
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conversion course that you guys can buy it's only 50 bucks it's called the camper van conversion blueprint
1:21:25
and what's nice about it is when you access this course when you purchase it
1:21:31
uh you'll actually get a 30 minute phone call with me to ask any question that you may have about your own DIY custom
1:21:37
van build and so I'm going to put both of these links in the description so we
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got a link to the
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course and then this is the link
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uh this is a link not only for the van build uh course when you purchase it to
1:22:04
have a phone call but if you wanted to um have a personal van build done by me
1:22:11
this is how you would ink acquire uh last but not least if we go to Odyssey Custom
1:22:20
Vans I updated the uh get a quote feature so if you come down here and you
1:22:26
click get a quote I've got a new uh form and so you can go through this whole
1:22:31
entire form get all your info as far as you know what you're looking to do as for your custom build and you can submit
1:22:38
the inquiry that way it's nice it's sleek and uh at the very end it'll actually ask you to click on the
1:22:46
calendar and schedule a consultation all right we'll be back in
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a couple hours have this thing bolted up together and then we're going to get closer to having that first look of the
1:22:59
rear dinette uh finished got a little sneak peek of the cushions um that's
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pretty much it get subscribed if you guys have any questions put those in the chat i'll be happy to answer them we
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will be doing a Q&A from the YouTube comments and questions shortly so
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that'll be in the future um yeah but for now we're going to uh get off the live stream i'm going to
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assemble this and then I will come back later today and we'll show you what it
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looks like thanks again for watching and we'll see you guys in the next live stream
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