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Camper Van Flooring Part 2: Installing water tank vent/overflow fitting in Ford Transit
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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome to live stream tonight we are installing a vent uh
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through hole vent so this is what the part looks like and it's something I found to be awesome
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if you've ever tried to vent your water tank you want to be able to vent it so that
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in the event of an overflow it can come out of the vent and then two the vent just allows the tank to be able to be
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filled up and discharged without creating a vacuum or any pressure to the
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tank um but finding a method for sealing that U can be challenging you know you
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might have a Pex tube coming out or a just a straight tube coming out uh the
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problems are one how to secure it through the chassis so it doesn't kind of cut itself through that hole maybe
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using a grommet but what I found with this one is uh I wanted to have a screen
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in my um vent so this one actually has two
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built-in screens and um let me see if I
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[Music] can I'll show you what I'm talking about so we'll hop in the van really quick
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so this is what we're going to be using so imagine the water tank is right here
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and towards the back of the water tank we have uh a pipe or a pipe coming out a
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hose and that hose is at the top of the back of the water tank so the Overflow
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can come out of it and the air can come out of it to let the tank breathe so this is what um I got
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so what we're going to do is we're going to fit this uh you put it we drill a hole and it goes up from underneath the
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van and then screws down inside the van so I have some measurements here to help
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you out if you want to put it in the same location that I'm putting it in also some tips on making this uh opening
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wider because the challenge is if you need to get a wrench in there and work if you just drilled a hole straight
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through the foam you wouldn't be able to tighten this nut up so we'll talk about
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Dimensions how to install we'll be using uh this drill bit right here which um I
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use to kind of go through the van where I know I'm going to drill but then to
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locate just to double check make sure that I don't drill through anything important um I've
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double checked my measurements I've kind of going back and forth and found what I
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want to do um as far as where I want to locate this be
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us okay just checking my sound yeah if you guys have any questions tonight let me know um it's
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going to be this is all I'm going to be working on um I've already finished up insulating and organizing all the wires
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in the middle of the van uh that's the wood floor subfloor has
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been already glued down today um so that's permanent soon as that dries we'll move on to the other two pieces
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but before I can get this piece of rear subfloor down this is the last hole that I need
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to cut uh before I put this um piece of wood that we've pre-cut in here after
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this uh piece of wood gets pre-cut and put in here um we're going to go lower
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the gas tank um not tonight but we'll lower the gas tank tomorrow and then we'll actually
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drill up through our four holes for our L track and then we'll have that pierce the floor so we can just verify
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everything um before we actually do our lawn seal epoxy because once we do that there's no
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going back this is the floor is in permanently and then we can get back to
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putting the side panels on um and then that well yeah pretty much
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uh once this side panel goes on that's pretty much the interior done except for the four or five pieces of Cedar and the
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window for the sliding door um after those things are finished the interior's done except for bed rails
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divider microwave refrigerator and kitchen Galley and then obviously we have to hook everything up electrically
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but that'll be a lot of fun so right now what I'm doing is I'm going vertical
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straight down and one thing you might want to do is uh grab like a towel or a blanket or
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something like that cuz I'm going to have to be going back and forth underneath the van to
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just double check that uh where all my holes are unfortunately I don't have
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a camera under the van
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um but before I get started drilling everything I'm going draw I'm pull up the drawing app on my
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computer and I'll draw I'll draw out what
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um kind of what we're getting ourselves into here let's see the last thing I
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need is our big razor
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see if I can find our big
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razor
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well we'll come back to that so we can keep keep on with the stream here
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um okay oh there it is it's up here we are finishing up the window LED
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so that's installed it's ready to
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go I'll just zoom over there really quick at the camera so you guys can
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see what we
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did okay so there is our 12vt uh white and red LED light that's
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installed it's got the USB port um now John and Susan if you guys are watching this light can rotate 360°
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so any orientation you want to have this light we can make that happen um but for right now if you see
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that bolt depending on when the so when the bookshelf or that shelf for the baskets
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go in we'll find out how you want to use that light and then we can just rotate it it's just one set screw they all work
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that way which is pretty cool so that's that's finished so we
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come back over here there we
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go then we'll just zoom in
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okay should be good all right let me get my drawing pad up we'll do a quick sketch
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of super quick sketch of this water
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system
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all right so if we have our this is our van floor so think of this as like the
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chassis of the van then we got the rear door and then right here is
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our that's our wheel well and what we're doing is I'm making
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this more dramatic than it it is but we're basically drilling through the floor here in the
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rear and then we're going to mount that
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uh vent down here and we want to make sure that the
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two holes with the screens are mounted that way towards the rear so that any uh
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air that's coming from when we drive is it going straight into the vent
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um the vents are pointing to the rear and so it goes around it goes around the
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vents which is pretty cool but pretty much this uh line and I'm just going to
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do it in red this one comes up and then right here you'll have a 90
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Dee fitting and then the water tank
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itself will be like that and this is an overwhel over the wheel well water
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tank so basically what you have is you have air that's trapped in
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here and that air needs somewhere to go uh when
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you're when you're either when you're filling it up the air escapes and then when you
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are draining the tank the air needs to uh come back in so it's always going
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it's going in and out all the time and then if you go up a hill and
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you've got a or if you've actually o overfilled the tank this
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is how the tank will allow itself to drain
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um we're not going to use this as our tank drain we'll have another we'll have a different fitting
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down here that will be our tank drain and that'll be the second
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hole that we drill in the van so we're going to do both of those
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tonight we're going to do this one so the green is the
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tank drain and then the red is the
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tank vent slash
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overflow so tank dra drain tank vent
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overflow um yep so I see a bunch of people hopping on right now so what we're doing is we are installing uh the
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tank vent this is the tank vent that I like to use uh they call a through hole vent
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or a gas tank vent um but we're going to be using it
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because number one it's chromed it's uh got a nice weather seal and it has vents
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in it so there's no bugs that are going to get into your water tank so if you
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just have a standard tank vent that's not doesn't have a mesh or
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screen on it especially this has super fine mesh um if you don't have something with
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super fine mesh I'll hold this up to the camera so you guys can
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see uh I I don't even think no CMS could actually get in here but
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um so see how fine this mesh is super fine mesh and so what I was
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saying earlier is you see how there's uh let's see
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here let me get my
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uh you see how there's two vents so imagine where I'm standing is
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where the the van is driving it's driving this way so the wind's going to come on this back side and these vents
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come out the backside so you don't want to have this turned into the wind if that makes sense
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um anyway so this is the vent that I use this is where we're going to be
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putting it in tonight and this is the kind of method to the madness
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so real quick I see more people jumping on the live stream this is the water tank in
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blue and this is the water level you guys can see here
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and the tank vent does uh two
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functions so what it does is it's does the
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Overflow protection and then it vents the tank so
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that there's not a uh so the tank can
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breathe
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um so if you fill it up the red line is
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what is going to overflow if you fill it up too much then we're going to do a second one which is this
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green part right down here that is going to be our tank drain so a tank drain and a tank vent are
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separate because they can't unless you have they can't function together um ad drain is
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either off or on the vent needs to always be open so that you are filling the tank it allows air to escape the
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tank because you're displacing the air in the tank and then when you turn the water pump on you're pulling from the
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tank that water needs to be replaced with air and it's got to come from somewhere um but you want that place
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that's suck in the air and to have a vent or mesh screen and that's that's what we're doing all right moving on we
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are going inside the van and I was saying earlier that you want to make sure that you got like some
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like a clean towel or something to work with because you're going to be going from the top to the bottom kind of back and
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forth the tools that we're having is we got our vent and then we've got our I
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call this like like my inspection drill bit so this drill bit allows me to do uh
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what I call is like an inspection drill um to go through here
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and go through the floor and if I mess up say I'm like
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quarter an inch or something off I can adjust it with this whereas if I took a
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hole saw and I drill a one inch hole saw I'm pretty much committed um I'm going to show you right
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now the measurements to where there's an opening so that you can safely come in
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through here and so I don't eat my words I just copy this from the van that I The Venture van I just built that's out in
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the parking lot I'm going to go ahead and drill these holes and just confirm what I'm telling you
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so uh and then we'll we'll go over the uh we'll go over the measurements
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then so get in here now there's no electrical wires
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over here so you're not going to have to worry about that uh there are some plastic caps that keep gravel and stuff
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out of the uh cross members and I can't remember if those needed to be opened up
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I'll I'll look here in just a second go through here and then we'll just start
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[Music] drilling okay once we Pierce
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through what's the beauty of this whole entire uh drill bit is we can just let
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it go all all the way down and then we're just going to let it
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uh maybe sit something under it so that it's you know perpendicular um and then we're going to
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go under the van I don't have a camera under here but I'm just going to go look and see if it's where I wanted it to be
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and uh yep it looks perfect so that's exactly where I want it to be I'm going
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to when I finish drilling this I'll take a picture and then we'll end the live
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stream with me showing you what it looks like from the bottom I'll I'll send it to myself so we can put on this live
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stream okay so that's the first one and so I came 3 and2
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in uh I came three Ines back from this column and then I
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came two and 1 half Ines off of the right here from the
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van now keep in mind this is if you're putting a board here so imagine this is
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the start of our uh box for our water tank so we have it mounted up to here again technically
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it could go back here but I'm doing this for Aesthetics I wanted I just wanted to bump up here it gives me some extra room
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um and all that good stuff so so the next one this so tank vent
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overflow was the first one we drilled that's what this is going there this one
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we keep it open because this is where our PEX line for our drain is going to
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go
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same thing check that hop under
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here and perfect awesome so those
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two those two are exactly where we want all
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right so this second hole is 5 and 1/4 in
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from the wall of the van and it's still 3 in um
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back all right next step is we start to remove
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our
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foam and this will be interesting because I'm not sure how
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I how much reinforcement I put underneath here uh
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I knew what I had to have with the other van because I had the adventure wagon L
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track I had the tank I didn't have a lot of places to move the tank or reposition
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anything this is John and Susan's van um I've got more wiggle room I can move
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stuff more um the tank that we got is a different tank uh it's a 4 gallons
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smaller it's a 36 gallon tank so get a little bit more room for the water pump
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and then the back here so this that I'm cutting out that was my confined space for the other van
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which I'm going to start with that because I think it's going to be it's going to be
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plenty now remember if we cut too much foam out we're fine we can glue some more in again we need to measure this
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out because when we put our floor in we'll find out what we need to cut for our floor cuz what I can do is I can cut
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the floor tighter to this and cover up most
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of this because I just need to get this in there and then I can do more of a low
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profile install uh let me grab see if I got a
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big screwdriver get creative on kind of
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popping the stuff out of here uh all right question my floor is already down so my hope is to run a vent
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tube uh the plastic underneath the
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rear let's see so I think it cut your comment off a
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little little bit uh yeah definitely go into more detail um happy to answer your
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question if you're doing it after the fact that is that's why I'm providing
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these measurements and this method cuz maybe you guys can use this if you're
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doing it after the fact um the photo I'll show you when I'm
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done I think that will actually uh that'll actually explain
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more than than anything else that we're doing
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here okay so so I got to pet myself on the back I
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I didn't put in all the support structure that I usually do because I was anticipating this is exactly where I
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wanted to put it so I'm
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happy uh foam you can score it like I'm doing and then Break It Away by pushing
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it this this way um and then you can just pull it
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straight out and it should break away nice and clean so right here I do have some
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support um I don't think it's going to affect anything that I'm doing
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but we'll kind of work with that all right next we're going to do
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our hole saw and I forgot what size this is let's
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see see what size we're working
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with all right let's see what the
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cut hole in plastic cover vent through
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cover yeah I know what you're saying there is a so back here a little further
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there is a plastic uh here I I'll go ahead and pull
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it so is this what you're talking about
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this is just like a it's a cap that goes underne here under here and it's kind of
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helps gravel and stuff not go into the uh the support members in the
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under the van so is this what you were going to uh drill a hole into CU this one
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is I think it's it's like right there that's where this is
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located I think it's right there so you might actually have coming out to here I
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like this area because when you guys see the photo this area right here is just
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flat as a pancake so it's really good to crimp things together and you know put
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do that type of stuff so yeah let me know if this is what you are going to drill
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through okay we got a 78 let's
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see yep that'll do it so 78 is what I'm
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using again there's nothing underneath the van um I'm going to
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uh I'm going go to turn down my audio for a second so I don't blow you guys out of the water but
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uh yeah while I'm drilling this think of some questions to ask me and
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um be happy to answer
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them
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all right I'm back I'm just looking for my d Eber
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tool
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when I was working inside the van I had a little tool kit with all the stuff I was working with
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and I cleaned the whole van out so it has traveled
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[Music] somewhere it's not supposed to
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be
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at least get a PIX pipe while I'm over here just give you guys an
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example
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okay I have to do this one old school some of this sandpaper over
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here
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all right another comment uh I've seen where people run electric cables for sure power through those holes and use
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3D printed covers for a NOCO Outlet i' yeah I've seen that too
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um I personally think uh just my personal
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opinion I like having the short power be an actual Outlet on the outside of the van um I recently went to an RV park and
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it just was uh really nice to do that um now to your
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point most charging you're going to do in your van like your house that NOCO is a 15 amp plug so it's just like a
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household plug so it does give you like a stealth place to put it you know hide it up underneath there so nobody can
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mess with it um so that is pretty nice for safety Factor uh but if you are
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traveling a lot it might be more convenient to go ahead and do the uh uh like a furion 30 amp or 15 amp
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Shore power
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plug okay so now I'm just verifying that the PEX comes through here so now this
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not to confuse you guys this is going in this hole but we're going to drill the same hole over here for our drain
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line now uh this also might be controversial I use this size PEX for my
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drain line it does drain the tank out really slow but um I don't like matching
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the tank drain with like an inch and a half or a 2in valve cut through the whole entire chassis of the
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van uh from uh like Thomas's van my van and
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other stuff that I've experienced when you fill the van up you're going to use that water until it
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drains down it might be empty uh I would prefer to turn the tank on and then take
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my outdoor shower spray down and just drain the tank tank
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electrically or cut the valve off and let it just gravity feed out through
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this line now it may take a while but I
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just like smaller holes cut into the van so the smaller the hole that I can cut into a van to do a certain task I think
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is the best way to go um plus it's just much neater let me see if I can find
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this uh grommet that I uh use to seal so it doesn't cut the PEX
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tubing um let's see here we go so you can go on
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Amazon you can go on Amazon and you can get uh these grommet accessory
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kits um this one I got from the auto part store is a Dorman this is a grommet
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pro pack and this is more for I use this more for electrical so for example if I have
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something going through the dash or something electrical these are really cool CU they
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look like they're solid but watch you see how my finger can start to come through here and it has this uh like a
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rubber band effect to where you push the wires through and it kind of keeps it sealed so the these are really cool um
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and then inside it gives you your uh your different sizes
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um so there's that so I use that for electrical and then this
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one I think this is the one I got off of Amazon this uh is what I'm going to use for the
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pecs so let's see
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here
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um so you really need a caliper for this let me see if I
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got a caliper
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here
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this pack is going to be way too big for that
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so this like
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[Music] 15 58 is 15.9 I think that's what I
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use so if we're [Music] using I wonder if I can make this more
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accurate than I did before so if I got a 19
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mimet and I'm using a I'm using the N
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3/4 so 19.1 okay I might be able to do this
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better than I did the other one so I've got a 19 mm hole saw and
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I've got a 19.1 MM grommet now it's a little bit
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more chunkier in the center so I don't think this is going to work
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this is not that's the only problem with this stuff is one thing works and then the
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other thing does the other thing doesn't um let's
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see pretty sure I use this
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one oh wait that's one
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here 22 okay this is what I used so the 7/8 or 22 mm that's what I
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use because obviously we're using a 7/8 on the hole so what we can do here
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is let's vacuum out all that
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dust and that way I can tell you exactly what
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grommet kit to get and what grommet you want to use for the PEC
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side
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all right turn down the volume for a
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second
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let's see how let's see how this grommet fits in
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here only downside of hole saws is if you don't get a good quality hole saw you you really don't get
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anywhere close to a specified
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number um I mean you get in the ballpark but see this one see how it kind of moves around a little bit that's okay
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because when we put the tube in remember this is the wrong location I'm just doing this as
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a you always want to practice in one area before you drill the next hole or
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go to something so I'll think you have to be
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perfect as I just push the grommet all the way through the hole
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so yeah so the gret's going to go in and then hopefully we
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can see if I can get this in
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here there you go so as you guys can see perfect fit so
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this is a perfect fit so if you are using um pretty sure this is half inch
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peex so if using a half inch PEC and you drill a
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7/8 inch hole saw or two 22 mm and you grab a grommet
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kit the 22.22%
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so I'm cutting out this piece of vinyl support here
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because my grommet is not going to sit uh won't sit well if I don't cut it
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out be pinched on one side then I'm also going to come through
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here and score
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the uh kilmat because we don't need it
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anymore now the kilmat is going to be a mess when you take it off just be prepared for
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that
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o
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okay next you want to grab some denatured
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alcohol going to clean up everything
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all right and then just going to double check our fitment for our grommet see can you
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guys see that I need to zoom in just a little bit more
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that
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okay so looks good now what I do um I'll need to let
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the paint dry that I'm going to paint here in a second so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of show you
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guys just for example purposes that we
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have uh let's just put let's put the red one in here all let's stick a
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blue okay so say that is our overflow so we have a valve on that the tank can
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drain so maybe it's right there something like that um now what I do is
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I'll put some black RTV uh and that will seal
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it and then uh you can use all kinds of stuff you can use like bedliner coating
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underneath you can use uh believe it or not um Flex
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Seal uh I used to hate Flex Seal I love Flex Seal now a big converted it's a
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it's really good for roof vents I like it a lot um plus it looks really neat if
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you can actually painted on nice so that is for our overflow drain and again this is just for demo
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purposes we're just going to go under the van and install
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this I think so what's nice about this is
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uh blind over
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here you should be able to install
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it see if I can get my hand over
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there trying to think how I did this last
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time I was able to do this onehanded last time I'm trying to figure out how I did
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it so the Rubber seal goes on the bottom side and then these two vents you don't
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want it like this and my theory is when you're driving air is going to come in this way so you want to turn it so
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they're this way and the air goes around
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it all right let's see if I let's see if my long arms can do this
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man it's so close
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so you just got to get it
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started all right somehow I did
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that that's how much I appreciate you guys watching the live stream because you know I'm going to have to take it apart and paint it and do the RTV and
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stuff like that all right um let's see if I can
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grab a
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hose see I'll be right back I'm G to grab a hose really quick put your questions in the chat and
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I'll come back and answer
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them
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e okay all right so let's do this this is
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the last part so right here we have just a
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regular hose this one doesn't have to be pecs it's easier if you just use the
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same pecs you're using for the rest of your van half inch and then you use this
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tubing with a uh hose clamp so just like that and then what I
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do is this goes into the tank and then this right here can actually
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come go down and clamp on the fitting and then that is your that's
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your final product so you have your vent for your tank overflow and then you have your extra
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line for your drain
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line
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all right let me go under the van I'll take a picture I'll show you guys the
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photo and let's see we'll do a photo do a photo from up
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top and then we'll do a photo
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from the
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bottom
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okay let me upload these two I'll see if you guys have any
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questions
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all right so give me a second I will get these off my
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email
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for
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okay here we go so the one let me get my big head out of the
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way so the photo on the left the clear hose is going down
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through the van so you're looking top down the passenger side is on your left driver side is on your
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right and so water goes out comes out underneath the van through that
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vent and then the blue tube is the drain so it goes down and then you want to
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have enough extension on it so that it actually will
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uh um you know drain if you're driving you don't want it to go up into your
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van uh now below there you see that that is that cap that
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um uh the discussion was in the chat that
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cap right there is what has been taken out so I could show you guys so I've heard people use that to
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store um you know something in there if they wanted
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to so yeah left picture is Overflow vent coming out the right
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photo is that vent mounted up into the van so it can breathe and you'll see
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it's up there it's got the little vent holes um I'll actually let's zoom into
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that so you see this is not uh there's no bugs or anything that's
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going to get past that screen so that is the vent for your tank and you can safely have that overflow the water out
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of the back of your van so that you don't have to worry about uh it's just a easy manual way to
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have a tank overflow tube on the right is your uh manual tank drain and yes I know
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it's a small diameter pipe but you just got done with a long
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trip you want to just open it up leave it open to drain overnight
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um you could do that now what I would say is uh if you're going to leave it
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open overnight or to air out maybe put a maybe zip tie or hose clamp a screen
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around here just a idea doesn't have to be permanent just something when you're
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doing doing that on a trip or when you get back home but yeah so that's what we worked
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on today we've got the grommets right there um if you want to uh check those
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out so I'll show you on C I'll bring this up for the camera so you guys can
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see see what we're talking about here so
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this is so if you want to check that out what we used today was over
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here so that 78 uh or 2222 mm the 7/8 we use a
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7/8 whole saw so the 7/8 they're describing that as
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the that is that diameter of the uh
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come on this Focus there it goes that's the inside
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diameter of this slit okay and then you got this whole other kit you can use all kinds of stuff
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so that's what we're using that's the name of
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[Applause] it I think I got this off Amazon I'm not sure
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I another other ones I got from uh the auto part store um all
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1:07:49
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1:07:55
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1:08:01
um but they wanted to do a little bit more custom work and have a different layout so we are working on their van
1:08:08
which is the one that we're doing all this work on right behind me now this adventure van um if you guys
1:08:17
are interested in it like I said it is currently for sale and all of the information everything that's fully
1:08:23
loaded in this van um is right here on the website we've got a couple of photos
1:08:28
uh one photo that's not on here is our and I'm wondering if I have let me see
1:08:34
if I have this pulled
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up um it's hard to tell right here but see how do I zoom in on this picture
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there we go uh so right here this is a photo that
1:08:54
I posted on Instagram stagram uh this van has got some more upgrades since I took those photos so we've got a
1:09:00
topographical map Hood vinyl so matte black hood vinyl and then we've got also topo map around the rear uh window area
1:09:08
it looks super cool really really cool um and some other additional features that um if you're looking for
1:09:15
adventure van I mean this is the one for you indoor shower flip and fold seat isotherm Cruise 130 doedic RTX 2000 AC
1:09:24
Max fan lot of interior bamboo um custom power system built by me and uh yeah
1:09:31
just give you quick look on the interior um just a very nice comfortable feeling van but it is very rugged on the outside
1:09:39
it is all-wheel drive it's got the turbocharged V6 engine from Ford the ecoboost engine Shore
1:09:46
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1:09:54
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van all right guys I don't see any more questions in the chat so we're going to leave it here for the live stream
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1:10:36
it in a van um yeah you know what I forgot one thing before I sign off here
1:10:42
I did not give you measurements so I will draw we'll draw these really
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quick that is one of the most important things of this whole entire video all right really quick let's
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draw these dimensions and we will go for the
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evening so here we go we have the back of the Ford Transit
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so there's the panel there's the panel here is uh the bump
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out uh now this is let's see here here's the back quarter of the Ford
1:11:22
Transit uh here is that pillar and I've oversized it so that you guys can
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understand the measurements here all right in blue so from the metal frame
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up you're going to want to go 3 and 1 12 in and then you're going to want to come
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over uh from the wall of the van you're going to want to come
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over uh
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two 2 and a/4 inch and then you're going to want to
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come over 3 in for the second one so the first
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one is going to be Center Line is at 2 and
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A4 okay this is where you're going to want to drill that
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hole and then the second one right over
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here okay so that is this one this one so the
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top the top right here that Top Line is 3 and half in and then the center
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line is going to be right
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there so what you want to do is come off the wall two and A4 Ines for that first
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one right here and then you're going to come over from that Center Line over 3
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in for the second one and remember underneath the van
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you've pretty much got an area like this and so this area
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is flat and so that's kind of that's that
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area you got to work with if you want to actually do
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that um you'll be free from messing anything up
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now there is this area over here I don't know the measurements for that but there
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is um this is the plastic
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cap access uh I don't know
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measurements okay don't know but it's located right
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there all right so yeah two and a quter over to center
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line for the first one
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I guess I shouldn't let me read undo that let's use a different
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color yeah so two and a quarter over so that's number one and then over an additional 3
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in for number
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two all right I'll give you guys just give you guys two minutes so my
1:14:58
live stream catches up here if you have any questions on those measurements or you are just wondering or you're just
1:15:05
coming in and wondering what the heck we're talking about tonight so two
1:15:14
minutes to answer any follow-up questions and then we will sign
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off
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1:16:05
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1:16:12
ahead and uh sign off tonight and uh we will think of something else to live
1:16:18
stream tomorrow get caught up on the van and uh get moving along with this current build thank you thanks for uh
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watching and we'll see you guys in the next live [Music]
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