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How To Install CR Laurence AW1033 Awning Style Camper Van Window | Ford Transit 148" Wheelbase
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May 3, 2025
Today Nick at Van Builder HQ is showing how to install a camper van window in his Ford Transit Camper Van Conversion. Enjoy the show! Visit https://www.vanbuilderhq.com to learn more. Interested in buying a van? Check out https://www.odysseycustomvans.com Support Van Builder HQ on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanbuilderhq
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[Music]
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hey guys nick eilerman here welcome back to the shop today is an exciting day we finally got our windows in from c.r
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lawrence we got them in last week we got the pr van all prepped and ready to go we got the plastic inside all that good
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stuff we've got our layouts and uh but i wanted to pause and start filming this for you guys so we could do
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a step-by-step tutorial on how to install a van window the particular van
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window that we're installing in this video is the sierra lawrence aw 1033
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awning style window so it's not the bunk window you typically see that has the
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it's like a half bunk slider this one is actually the awning to where it tilts out
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and allows it to shed rain which is the main reason that i'm using this one in this van
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now we have four windows that we're installing and one max fan for the roof
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however this video is going to be more detailed on just this one window right here behind the ladder
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it's going to show you everything i do to prep before i cut the window out all the tools that i have
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how i do my templating process all that stuff so it's a pack video a lot of information
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so we're going to go ahead and get started okay the first part of this process is to lay out all the materials
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that you're going to anticipate you're going to need for this i mean it's really straightforward you
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need our your tools for cutting it out you need your markers to lay out what your template
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line is going to be i need your tape to protect when you get ready to
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drill it out to be able to drill it out you need to have drills set for
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a size that is big enough for your jigsaw blade to fit through
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a drill so that you can drill out the tops and bottoms of the template to provide you for reference holes on the
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inside of the van when you get ready to cut out the ribs i'll explain that
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got some water here obvious reasons some metal cutting gloves and i mean
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metal cleaning gloves gloves that are designed to not uh
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slice your hand open when you're cutting out the sheet metal and i like
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these more floppy gloves instead of like the mechanic gloves because
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you can get a little bit more dexterity in these safety glasses
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ear protection this is an adjustable
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square we're not going to be using it for the leveling purposes we're using this so that we can gauge the depth from our
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window seam to where our template falls on the van that'll be explained in a minute
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and then our template so this was explained in our templating process video
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and uh yeah so that's pretty much everything we need to to cut the window out
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the next step is to move over to where we're going to lay the window out
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and you won't have had uh you'll want to have spent a lot of time
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on planning this kind of sleeping on some ideas and thinking about what you're going to do
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for this side of the van or for wherever you're putting the window you want to understand
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relationship to any ladders symmetry height
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all that stuff and then you're going to also want to consider how that's going to affect
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whatever you're installing on the interior of the van
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so i'm gonna insert a little part of the video to where i explain all this
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all right so we're looking at one of the panels i call it a bump out for the adventure
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wagon kit one's over here one's over here at the widest point so right here
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we are almost 74 inches wide i think it's like 73
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uh something like that might be 73 inches anyway my point that i wanted to
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or something i wanted to show you guys while we're here is when you're trying to find out where to
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put your window [Music] um if you just haphazardly put your
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window in and then maybe you center it or whatever you really need to do like a 360
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when you're doing anything in the van when i mean 360. i mean look at one side
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actually come out go all the way to the other side of the van
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and then look and then just start understanding
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how things are going to appear for example
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i went to the i was working on the inside of the van and i had everything planned out as far
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as you know bed window all this stuff and i was thinking well you know it'd be nice to
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have the bed is exactly 60 inches from here to here gonna be nice to have the window
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centered and then i had something back my mind i was like you know
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on the outside we you know the ladder we were designing the ladder so i was like man it's like i don't want the window
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to interrupt and be behind the ladder because i mean that would look terrible but then where am i going to put the
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window on the opposite side so what i did was
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i paused on the adventure wagon i paused on the wednesday window installation
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and i went ahead and moved over to the flatline vanco roof rack system that
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we had and so what i had to do is actually install this driver side
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get everything lined up get the ladder in position to where
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everything is nice and vertical to the body lines everything like looks nice and
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perpendicular okay get this in this position where it's
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going to live i can always take it off later but then now
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where is this in relationship to where the window needs to be so we have this
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uh we have this little the bot it's not a body line really but
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it's you know it's an indentation right here uh in the van
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and so this is kind of like where your eyes going so right here when this is where a window would be
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so where is the window going to go from here to here because now this is now our
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visual line that's coming on the van
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so now since we have the opportunity to be to move stuff in the van you know we don't we can put the window wherever we
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want it we're in control of that so if we are
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if we are and control that we should take advantage of it so what i'm doing is i've got my ladder
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where it's going to be and i've got this reveal line
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and what i want to do is i want to be able to put a window here that makes sense that's either equal distance here and
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here so what i've done is i've measured from the ladder to here i've found my center
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point and then i've taken my template
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and my template i have a center line right here
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then now i know that this is where my window's gonna go
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and so now my window is gonna have the same gap here in the same gap here
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relative to this this angle so imagine if this angle came straight down
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that's where my distance is uh so now that i have this window here
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it's going to look you know like it had thought designed into it that there's a reason that the
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window is located specifically here and then what i'll do is i'll translate
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that to the other side so i'll know exactly how far i'm measuring off of here to get my center
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line i have that number now so now the only other thing
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that needs to be addressed before i make a decision on where i'm actually going to
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cut the hole out is the height and that's the distance between this
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lip and here okay so i've decided on three inches down
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and the way i came upon three inches down again i think 360.
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let's come back in the van i know we're technically doing 180 but
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my my point is you get my point
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we're back over here how did i come up with where to come three inches down well if
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you look inside here i have no idea if the camera is going to
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be able to get this let me take it off
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all right let's do this all right guys if you can see
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right there all right guys if you can see that that
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is where that body line comes into the van that that
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that turned down uh which is pretty much the profile if you were going to have this to be a passenger van and that's where the glass
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would actually inset so let's zoom back out
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okay so right here is where that is so if you go in and measure it actually
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comes out here so that makes sense it makes sense that this
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part right here would be where that lip is on the outside but you got to confirm that so we've confirmed that
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[Music] and so now get this back in my head
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so now that we know we're coming three inches down you know why are we coming three inches
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down with our window well it's because we gotta take into
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account the complexity of all of this
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so if you were simply just putting in
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this this window you just put in this van window you know no big deal
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window goes in the hole you clamp it and then later you're going
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to build some type of frame around it to neaten it up what we're doing is we're doing the
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window we are doing a
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flatline vanco trim ring kit
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that has to go in here and so the three inches now we start to build the three inches up so where this
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would be the this is where the hole begins and that's our gasket
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now we're adding this flange to it
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for the trim kit so we've just added uh almost an inch
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then we're sealing that into the van now we have this profile so we got to
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make room for that and then when we're done we're going to cut a hole into the
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upholster panel the square hole so that it can accept
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the final trim ring okay so now we've gone from here
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to here to here now we're here so we've we've we've done that much and then we want
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some wiggle room so that that is how we came up with our three inches is because when that curve for
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that panel comes down we want this flat part to intersect where it becomes vertical again so if
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you can imagine it goes vertical and then it starts to turn to be the bump out
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so for all of this to sandwich and make its way in there
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that is what that is what we have to do okay so it's a lot
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a lot of things but when we're done look at that it'll be a just super clean
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i'll probably repaint this just a super clean
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install it'll look really really nice so now that we had all those layers you know the whole 360 thing
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that is how it makes sense that we've decided to come down
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the good news is since we've used our ladder as kind of like our starting
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datum point and we came up from that to find out where all this locates we can also come out from the outside of
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the van measure off i think this is 19 inches to where this mark is and that's actually where that flange is
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going to be on the inside why is that important because this right here consists of
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all of these little metal so we need to make sure that that frame that's going in there
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is offset enough to where it's nice and open we don't have to deal with cutting any of this
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out because again this is structure so the the least amount of structure you
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can take out of the van the better so [Music]
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long story short this right here
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is where you're going to see the window in its final position
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now further note this is about as high up as i can make
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the window because we got the trim ring and then we got the inch and a half for the lip and then it turns in so this is
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about as high as the window can go again
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look what we have here this is approximately where our bed is going to go
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now this bed is going to be designed to where it can be removed or movable
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so it's not completely permanent although that may change depending on
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who decides to purchase this van
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but again what we can do here is
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we can just visually see where the mattress is going to be
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so this block represents the thickness of our insulation our plywood and our flooring material
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it'll be on top of these ribs so when we place this here this is pretty much our floor height
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so measuring from here to the top of this tape is 36 inches typically that is
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what you would want that's what you want to have [Music]
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that's what you want to have for putting mountain bikes and stuff like that in the van
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we covered that in one of our podcasts so here to here is 36
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we need about an inch and a half for our structure of the bed or 80 20
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frame and then this is looking at like a six inch mattress
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so as you can already tell the window
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instead of doing it like this because we can't do that we've had to come down
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so our window is right about an inch
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where our uh let's see here
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let's make sure that's three inches just so i can make sure i'm explaining this to you
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there you go okay so we're gonna come three inches down it should be
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uh it's close to where that tape is so we'll just go a little bit above the tape
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tape is not exact this that was just for reference when i was doing this so oh yeah that's right there you go
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so three inches is about where this piece of tape is so if we look
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we've got about uh inch and a half and then right here that tape up there
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represents our six inch mattress
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so you'll notice everything is really tight
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because this is our knob to adjust our window so we'll have this we'll have a frame come out
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but then this is where our mattress is going to be so you see
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things get this get tight really really quick so we have a six inch mattress we're gonna have to make an adjustment and bring
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this down which brings our bed height down which
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brings this down so everything is in relationship so we're going to have to address that
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we really want to stick to 36 inches but what we're going gonna do is we have we can move the bed we can change the bed
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um the window the window frame the ladder stuff like
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that we can't change so this is as high as we can get with our window and so we're going to have to make an
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adjustment to the way the bed frame is designed which we'll do that later
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the bed frame is actually what we're going to do last but since we're here it's important that
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we understand what we're getting ourselves into later so we can visually understand that
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by making this decision we're affecting our mattress selection affecting our bed framing material we
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are affecting our garage height uh if we wanted to install a mountain bike
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with some mounts and stuff like that so for example instead of maybe doing one inch of insulation we may have to do
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a half inch of insulation you know um
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maybe quarter inch floor like stuff like that starts to happen so that
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we can regain this this little distance so that our our final ending
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reveal for this window uh it's comfortable it looks right it
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makes sense all the above so just remember when you make one decision it translates
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into multiple other decisions that you started with in a van everything is tied
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together everything from again where this bed height is
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to the ceiling height so if you want to be able to sit up in bed uh you're just you're everything is
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connected the way you set up the way you lay down how the bed frame is set
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uh your garage space for your bikes or gear
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and so i take that into consideration depending on what the customer's goals are
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but for you if you're doing diy you know what are your goals is it
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really necessary that you have bikes in the garage is that something you're going to be doing all the time
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or can you just put a bike rack on your door for two bikes and then
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you know like chain them up at the end of the night when you go camp somewhere
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but kind of getting back to where i started i will be cutting out this window today but i wanted to show you guys in this uh
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video just how everything's related all right so we got the gopro on
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and we're going to tilt this up just a little bit let's get that back on there
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take some pressure off of this there you go
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this looks like it's coming off um that's okay let's put extra piece of tape on
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and it's just temporary is this our template uh
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there you go okay as you guys can see the tool that i was talking about
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earlier this guy right here what you can do is you can set this
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so you have a gauge to find out how how high this is coming off of this
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and you can just go around and actually i just now notice this but this lip
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can pretty much sit right here on this cardboard on the back side
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as you guys can see we are perfectly
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we're perfectly lined up with that line so nice and level we got three inches
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coming down confirmed on the inside so now we're going to make our line
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so everything is taped up here
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[Applause] i'm using a fine point
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sharpie you could use a thicker sharpie
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i do think maybe like a thicker sharpie would be good for if you were uh
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you wanted to actually see the line a little bit better like say you were cutting this outside as opposed to inside you needed in the sun you know it
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was pretty bright but i'm going to come over here
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and just start making my line just nice and easy
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and this fine point i want this super accurate because i'm actually
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this line i'm actually going to cut on this line because the way that i trace this
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that is going to give me my room so my jigsaw blade is actually going to be
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on this line that i'm cutting
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okay
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[Music] now when you're doing this you just want to be consistent you want to go up and
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down like that
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i'd say the most important part of the template is the radius here
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that you gotta cut especially on the ford transit vans
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because uh it bends out
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and i watched a video the other day and i was talking about how the uh
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the sliding door the reason the t vent windows on a ford transit don't actually
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uh tilt out that much is because it has to do with the uh
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curvature of the van so it's actually not the t vent i mean the t vent you know it's not
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allowing it to come out but it's it's because of they can't manufacture the window to be
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able to
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like take that curve which i don't know how true that is but [Music]
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it was in somebody's youtube video that was researching on
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you know van install van window installs
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okay so again we're going to be cutting right on that line and that line is going to be
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uh it's going to give us that gap we needed to have clearance because
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this is pretty much zero clearance the way we cut our template
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um so i'm gonna take this tape off of the top part so i get my line
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and be careful with your template you want to be able to use it for other parts of the van if you're going to
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oh that's a dry erase marker
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and you see my template shifted so just uh
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be aware if you've moved it to get back right where that line was supposed to be
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[Music]
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okay let's take it off let's look at it here we go there's our window
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and i'm just triple checking because for some reason it looks
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looks like it looks like the right is lower than the left
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not sure why three right to there
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might be like an optical illusion yeah we're exactly three
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and exactly three [Applause] let's see what it looks like over here
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yeah it looks nice that's awesome as you guys can see we got like six
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inches here and six inches here i know it's not to here but i'm taking account this this
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angle so about six inches here and then that goes straight down
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nice okay the next step is to take our
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uh our drill bit and we're going to go up here uh to the center point
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we're gonna drill in and they're gonna drill down here and i'm gonna measure on the inside
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from the outside of the van to the inside uh to make sure i just don't hit a rib because the whole point of this is to
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find out uh our maximum height and our minimum height
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for uh getting ready to cut the ribs out because we're going to cut the ribs out
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next once those are cut out for our spacing we'll come back circle back over here
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um and we'll get everything uh taped off uh so yeah let's uh go measure the
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inside
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we may not do the center we may just try to find a place that we can start so
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that's the end of the van so let's try to hit 32 inches going in
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and that'll land us with hopefully our screws coming out here in here
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so take our sharpie
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and the van has come in 32
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it's about 32. i can use two hands here
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okay it's a little left of that speck supply right here and right here
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so
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all right i think this was at
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let's see it's 32
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yeah we're about right there yeah because 19 was where this line was
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all right let's drill those two holes and then we'll move on from there and before we do that
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let's grab our tape
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just in case we slip we're not going to mess up our
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our line here
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you'll slip [Music]
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[Music] okay uh drill a hole here and drill a hole
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here
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and now this sheet metal should be pretty good with the standard drill bit i know when we were doing that top part
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from here up that's boron steel it's extremely tough to get through and
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actually take that back this outer shell may not be boron it may just be the the inner frame
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um yeah not sure about that and let's get this going
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[Music]
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[Music]
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okay guys get ready to cut our supporting members here
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the most critical thing to remember is to not go past this you only have about an eight to a quarter
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of an inch so don't cut your exterior
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part of your van you only want to cut through this rib some people like to put a piece of
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sheet metal or something like that behind there i'm not gonna do that i'm just gonna take my time
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and just focus on cutting this piece of metal out i'm gonna do one two and three
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and i guess for video purposes let's see i'm gonna i'll probably have to enjoy the video
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you guys will just have to watch it's on gopro so you guys should be fine
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i've got eye protection here and protection and we're going to be using this
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milwaukee fuel m12 fuel series
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cut off wheel it is a three inch cut off wheel this thing is very nice because you can easily
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control this uh and then this one allows you
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to change directions so we can actually have sparks go that way and we can have
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them go that way so we're gonna have them go out so let's get started
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[Music]
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[Music]
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all right guys we are back in the shop we've got our grinder charged and we're gonna go back on this other side
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and keep on going so let's get our gopro on our head
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and uh i think we got our safety glasses and stuff like that on the other side so
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we'll go put that on and we'll finish up cutting out these ribs behind
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the window all right guys we're back at it we have
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our recharged single battery we've only bought one battery for this because
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i don't know if i actually would like it but i really like it it's doing a really good job just need a little bit extra batteries
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um yeah so we're gonna go ahead and cut these out we're gonna actually cut slightly above this line
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and that should give us a nice i really measured everything so that you give us a nice tight fit between everything
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and that's kind of the direction we're going to go there so we're going to go ahead and do that
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get this cut out and then we'll actually be ready to enlarge our holes and get ready to jigsaw out our window
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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all right hey guys welcome back uh just finished off on the inside we're back over here on the outside
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getting ready to finally cut this window out we offset these holes enough to where we
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can use this bigger drill bit right here to go in and
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cut this hole out and then once we drill this hole out it'll be flush with our lot our cut line
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and we can go from there okay over here we got our jigsaw
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and i used a i think a medium bit uh
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saw for the roof vent and i'm gonna change it on this panel
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and i'm going for a bosch uh basic metal very thin
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basic metal very thin that's what i'm doing these are the t-shank
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[Applause]
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we've already got our jigsaw we've got masking tape on there masking tape is a little bit um better than
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painters tape it's a little bit more durable i've found uh we've got our
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painters tape here so we're gonna go ahead and take these gloves off and start taping out
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the section that we need to protect so we gotta protect
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protect the paint it's white paint but
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it's uh it's just a paint for our van tell you guys i'm so bad i already already
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cut myself right there um i don't know if i'll leave in the video but and we'll go
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wash my hands off because i was bleeding anyway
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i'm just stubborn i guess but we're gonna do this make sure we're right on that line
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because we're gonna cut directly on the line that should give us enough clearance
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so that it'll just slip in there really just very cleanly
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and i'm using the sharp line painters tape
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for the inside i might use some cheaper stuff for the outside but when i'm doing this i don't i really
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don't cheap out on anything like saw blades or nothing if i if i have to buy something
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to do it right i buy something to do it right so
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that's what i do
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and watch out when you move your hands across i've cut my fingers going across
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holes that i've drilled out
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[Applause]
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so
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[Music] back
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hopefully there's some music playing after i edit this so you guys can just listen to music and
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watch me work
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i'll probably be doing a live stream with this little head this
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gopro headset type thing i think i mentioned it in another video but there's this guy that does window
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tinning out of detroit michigan and
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it's pretty cool the way he does a live stream of course he's got like an hdmi transmitter and all this
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stuff so if you think this looks big on my
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head his his whole setup he's got like a extra battery pack on his head he's got
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like i said hdmi transmitter popping out i got an extra battery pack for the gopro
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um pretty cool
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[Music] tape is cheap guys scratching the paint
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is not cheap i've got some really wide
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tape right here i'm just going to use for these bigger areas so we can just
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get to business to the business
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[Music] not sure if i'm gonna hit that when i go up
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so
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and make sure we're documenting for the blog
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take that back in there in a second because that's going to be our our inside cam
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[Music]
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so you saw me wiping off look at that
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all that little stuff from the drill that will settle into the paint so you need to make sure
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that uh you really take care of wiping this
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whole entire thing down um if it does get embedded in the faint the paint
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i saw this one video i haven't tried this myself but what they did is they took they took baking soda
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[Music]
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i'm going to come over here to see if the ladder is going to get in the way
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so that's good ladder won't be in the way come up back here
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okay so we don't have any obstruction but we
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do need to put some extra tape down
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like i said i won't be doing this much of an in-depth tutorial on the other windows because they're pretty self-explanatory after this
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i'll just be [Music] listening to music getting in the zone
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just having a good time working on the van
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once you guys get the hang of this uh
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it'll it'll be much quicker
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hello
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okay that's overkill for tape job but i'm just showing you guys what you can
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do [Music] all right so now we're not going to scratch our paint at all
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got everything taped up again
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you just want to make sure that when you're making the turns the turns are where you're going to
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tend to scratch so let's uh let's do that
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um the other thing i'll do and you've probably seen this on some other videos is i'll tape this with the
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masking tape as i go just so the panel is not all flopping around
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so i've got my masking tape ready we're gonna go ahead and
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start this video
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inside here get that going
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okay you guys can see what's happening
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all right guys we've made it we're here we're gonna we're gonna cut this window out i promise
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got our safety glasses on we've got our hearing protection we have the uh the gopro up here
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and um it's gonna be able to show you guys all this
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uh it's gonna be pretty cool all right so
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i'm gonna take our drill right now and we're just gonna enlarge this hole because it's gonna be one of our
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there's gonna be one of our holes that our jigsaw is gonna go in might be the only hole
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technical difficulties [Applause]
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i think his drill is done
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man that sucks anyway we've got our
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skill saw jigsaw
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it's gonna tie that up just so when you're in the zone cutting this out you don't lose your
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concentration all right guys here we go we're going to
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make a pass all the way up to here and probably move the ladder and then
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we'll do one to here
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huh
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now this is going to be floppy floppy as hell i mean it's super floppy so just
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just take your time
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[Music]
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so
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uh two pro tips always high speed always high speed
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turn don't turn with the top of your jigsaw turn with the back of your jigsaw like you're if you've ever driven a forklift
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act like you're driving a forklift if that if that makes sense turn with the back not the front
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[Music]
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okay we're starting to flop around it's getting kind of distracting so i'm gonna go ahead and sit this down
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and do my tape
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[Music] yeah i'm going to come back around there
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so i don't want to tape that all the way up
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don't cut yourself i should be wearing gloves [Music]
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[Music]
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so
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i haven't done the bunk window so i'm wondering if the awning style window is uh
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longer i didn't actually do that calculation
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make sure we got some slack so it doesn't happen again
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[Music]
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so
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uh pause for a second
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i feel like i'm breathing in little bits of aluminum i mean still
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that blade cuts so much thinner it's really nice though
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well this looks ridiculous
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[Laughter]
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so
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so
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i noticed i started to drift down so i might have to correct that later
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wear gloves i'm not wearing gloves
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this blade does cut a lot slower though that's what i noticed
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so
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getting wobbly
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i really like the cut that that uh i like the cut that the fine blade makes
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but it makes a ton of dust
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so
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make sure you steer with the back
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so
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[Laughter]
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so
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[Laughter]
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so [Laughter]
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all right there we go let's take it out and do a test fit
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okay so we're finished let's go on the inside and see what it looks like
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all right looks really good the biggest question is let's check out
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how we did on the frame here
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okay so there's our frame and it'll pretty much be glued just like
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that you guys can see see how we uh it kind of comes up a little bit so that's what
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we got to do is we need to come up like that with it um because that's how the body line of
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the van is going down all right let's peel this out
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[Music]
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we can actually peel it out from this side
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so
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there we go the window is out
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all right guys we have a window all right guys we did it we cut the hole
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out looks uh so so far so good i have actually put the window in
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we're going to do it live but that little taping method i didn't plan on pulling the metal out from the
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inside but that's going to be my new trick
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i like it anyway let's get this uh masking tape off and then what we'll do
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is we'll go get our awning window
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and i like to be super precise just my thing
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so hopefully it is just as precise as i like to be
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and from the looks of this and this cutout i think it's going to be great
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man that's excellent excellent excellent
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could have been about an eighth of an inch tighter and i would have been a little bit more happy
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uh but i think we're gonna do just great
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actually i take that back because there's this big old spot weld up here at the top and
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you hear that it's so good guys it is so good
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i can only i only get an eighth eighth of an inch left and right
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that's awesome and i'm really gonna like the fact that we're gonna reinforce the inside of it
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with the uh the flatline vanco system
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um you see right here i don't wanna push in because it's gonna like dent in so i'm just gonna push it
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here and i'm gonna take some tape and then tape it
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so we can see what it looks like on the inside
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[Applause] [Music]
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and i'm a one-man show here today so
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i know somebody's going to put in the comments that i waste a ton of tape but
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just don't take any chances all right no chances
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all right
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let's take you on the gopro journey so we are looking at the window here
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and i mean everything looks excellent uh
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let's see here
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so maybe we can put here the bottom here
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yep looks good it's really good okay let's go on the inside
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check that out
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it's a nasty goop let's go on the inside before it falls
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out look at that looking good
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now you guys can see what i'm saying we have that line of the van
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so on a ford transit it comes here and it goes and it goes
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down so that's what i'm talking about where
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inside you are not going to notice this actually this is making it worse
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ignore that i've only got that hill in by one bolt
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but that's the way the body line is going down so that's the way the window is
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now it is sitting on the bottom here right there on that little plastic bit that i was telling you guys about
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you know that plastic bit right there so uh i mean look at what we did for the cutting it looks
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excellent i mean i think we did really good
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this right here i don't know why i went up with the jigsaw obviously that's going to be fine but
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now look at that right there is where that little spot weld is and we had to kind of push it in
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and it's right there with spot weld is again i'll have to double check the template but it looks like we have a
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little rise here this radius is really nice that's one place where
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um a lot of people cut too big and it doesn't make a good seal and i'm happy
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about that seal i'm really happy about this down here because this is where water would
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more typically leak i mean look at that that that cut right there is
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that's excellent so that's one that's what i'm going for in the future
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just that perfection that looks really good okay all right passes my test it passes my
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test um but now we can actually get to see this
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in all of its glory try not to push the window out
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if you see here guys see how we have the uh the angle so we're gonna have to bump up
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and i actually might uh i'm gonna take some more material out of this top right
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that way i can get this top just perfect so probably just need to take another
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eighth of an inch off there and then we'll be really good to go
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we're gonna put some more tape on the window because uh actually let me scratch that
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i'm going to start putting this plate on and tracing out the left and right edges
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to get this even because i want to go ahead and glue this so that it glues overnight
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and then once i'm finished gluing this overnight we can come back tomorrow and then we can actually
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drill and mount the window 100
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so yeah so that's the plan guys we're gonna grind this get this set
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glued in and that is the video for today all right guys we're not done yet uh this is
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the end of the day today we're gonna go back tomorrow and
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with movie magic it'll be in this next clip but what i'm gonna do is what i said inside we're gonna glue it
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uh get this taped on here a little bit better so i can mess around the inside finding where i want that frame
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do a little more grinding tonight and then tomorrow we'll pick back up we'll have it bolted
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in we'll do a couple of final touches on cutting out the upholstered panel
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and then that'll be the end of the video and then we'll kind of go on from there but yeah let's go ahead and get to this next clip which will be the following
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day all right guys i just got everything finished up on here
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check out this hack this little pencil i don't know how this worked out but
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essentially what we got to do is center this frame around this window obviously
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we've trimmed this we've trimmed this so that we could get the right angle we need
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but this is going to go after everything is cleaned up all the burrs get off
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i'm going to clamp this up tonight with some adhesive and actually glue it to the van
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and we got this one and so that's where that's gonna sit it's gonna be beautiful looks so good
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um so now we know where that's gonna sit which is very good
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nova i'll be with you one second uh but check this out this pencil is the exact width
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of the clearance of the window look at that i don't know how
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it's not on the top that's okay but the bottoms and the sides dude that's a win
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cool so we know this is good she's gotta go out
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i'm gonna take you on a minute
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just take the window out we'll clean all of this up we'll get the razor we'll get all this
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old adhesive and everything off we'll clean this off um we'll actually
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uh rust prevent all of these places right here after we grind it
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that will get us prep for tomorrow which we'll drill the we'll do some pilot holes and
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drill and tap we're using the socket head cap screws instead of the provided screws i'm going to tell you why when i
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do it um and that's going to be for this
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and then yeah we'll get the window in and then once this is on
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let me pause before the window actually finally goes in once this goes on
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we're going to re-mount the upholstered panel bump out and then we're going to trace the inside
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via coming from the outside this and then that allows us to take the
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cutter and cut the square hole out for the panel we'll put the panel on we'll take the trim ring finishing trim ring
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bam uh it'll look so sweet so good work today we'll see you guys in
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the next clip [Music]
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so
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[Music]
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all right guys it's a late night but we're back gonna put an all-nighter here to get this in the reason was i put this
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flatline vanco trim ring in and i was going to
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i was just you know gluing it to the frame and i noticed that the clamps weren't going to work because they're
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not going to evenly put pressure didn't have time to cut you know pieces of wood and stuff
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like that to make a frame so it was nice and even so i went ahead and
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drilled and tapped the aw 1033 awning window frame yes i did it
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i used m4 by 0.70 by 12 millimeter
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socket head cap screws that's what we're gonna install right now um we're gonna put a loctite on it and
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this will be the the window install so doing it kind of fast here um we're
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gonna put the gopro on so you guys can check it out i'm going to take one last clamp off
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we're going to go grab our window put it on here let's do this pretty quick
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so it does not frame does not fall out
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okay we blew this all blown off with air
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this gasket looks really good i'm actually not putting any sealant on this gasket
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because according to the manufacturer that is
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not necessary but we will do a water test
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and the good news is with these socket head cap screws
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if we if we really did have to uh take this window out and replace it
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it's possible the issue with having those screws in there is once you cut threads with those
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screws i mean you may never get that uh
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you may never get that exact screw that run of that screw that you had
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again and i mean that can be it can be an issue
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that means you might be buying another another window
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i will say tapping doing the taps for this window that was very
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interesting because uh
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there's not a lot of meat to grab onto but there is some there is some meat you guys don't know
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anything about what i'm talking about it has to do with the uh
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how much materials in here that we can actually we can use to
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uh that the screws can grab okay
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all right let's go in there before this thing falls off
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all right we're ready to finish up this window install we're putting our trim ring to get a
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nice test fit now this is not the final time that this window will be taken out we're going to
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take it out one more time because we're going to have to trace out
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for our interior upholstered interior panel so what i'm doing right now is i'm
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making sure that i can get a good compression on this trim ring and i'm not going to have to make any more
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adjustments to drilling out any of the holes a little bit bigger
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that sort of thing i really want to make sure i got good clamping force on the four corners so i'm just testing that
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out finding the best spot for this window to be in so that when i take it out
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again i won't have to make any more modifications after i trace out my
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interior panel so again what i'm doing right now is i'm just taking the
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socket head cap screws and tightening them again these are not the screws that came
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with the aw 1033 window these are some that i bought at lowe's i
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bought a tap kit so uh that kit came with a 3.3 millimeter drill bit that i used to
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drill through the frame that's the hole that you prep before you put the tap in
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and then the kit comes with a m4 by .70 tap and that's what creates
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the threads and the aluminum after you drill with a drill bit and so once you have all that down you
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can buy these socketed cap screws and you can buy some washers and use that as what you use to
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mount this uh ring compression ring to the actual window
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so in this next part i'm actually taking the window out for the last time
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in preparation to be able to trace out on the inside
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of the trim ring so that's the flatline vanco trim ring that i glued to the
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structure of the van so it's not glued to the window it's glued to the sheet metal of the van
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so i went ahead and put in my panel where its a home position would be so all the
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l track and everything clamped down this is for the adventure wagon interior conversion kit
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so once everything was clamped down and i know that's where the panel is going to live i'm then able to
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go to the other side and begin to trace out the interior of that frame and that's
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going to let me know where i can drill my hole and use my jigsaw just like i did to cut
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out the window except this time i'm going to cut out the
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interior panel so go ahead and score everything with the razor
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and then i'm going to go back around i'm going to take everything else apart
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so maybe your conversion might not be as challenging as this one there's just a lot of pieces that i have to put
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together and then take apart in order for everything to fit perfectly because you can only get
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one shot to cut these out so there we go i drill my pilot hole to
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put my jigsaw in i get my jigsaw
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and i'm cutting on this square that i traced from the exterior of the van
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and you can really use this method for any interior panels so say you were doing an interior panel that
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you know wasn't from a venture wagon it's when you're designing on your own or that you got somewhere you can still
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use this technique to be able to find out you know what profile you need to trace out
1:25:51
to go around that trim ring that you've created whether it's out of wood aluminum
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doesn't matter and so i made a couple adjustments because there's some
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adjustment screws there's two on each side and they were kind of sticking out and not letting this sit down flush
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but once i got that right i was able to go in and actually what i'm doing right now is i'm
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i was cutting out some glue because i saw some glue through the window so i got that out of the way
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put my window back in and now this is my final time i'm putting the window back in i went ahead and put loctite on all
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the screws uh tighten them down and we were all finished with that we went ahead and
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grabbed our trim ring from flatline vanco kit and that allowed us to completely
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finish up this window and it looked awesome clean up our tape went ahead and got
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some windex and just wiped everything down make sure there wasn't any more little bits of metal shavings or anything like that around
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and that's it our aw 1033 awning window is completely installed if you guys have
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any questions on installing a window put those in the comments below and we'll see you guys in the next video
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