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Flooring Install Part 10 | Livestream Shop Cam
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May 2, 2025
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foreign [Music]
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thank you [Music]
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thank you all right guys I'm headed over to the camera
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get the camera in a different part of the van so that we can show you the next piece of the puzzle
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all right uh hold on I'm gonna let's see if I can see myself here
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get the framing right I should be in frame we are installing this front piece uh
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earlier we were working on the middle so it's done it's got all the weight on it if you guys can see that off to the left
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hand side and then what we have over here on the right hand side is the fix that we did
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today so right here there's a little bit of a squeak in the floor so the squeak is
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coming from the wood that was here it's just temporary so we could stand on
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it and put the other piece in but the squeak comes from this part of the floor so if I got a piece of wood
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so the wood sliding so wood that does not have any coating
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on it it's just going to sound like this all right now if you have
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paint on the wood it's going to give you more of a squeaking effect
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and so that is uh what was making that sound so
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it's it's the paint kind of makes it you know a little tacky and stick to it
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but the reason that it's making the sound is because it's kind of it's moving so
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the movement was right here in the front part of the floor so on a Ford Transit
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the flooring template that they give you uh you need to make sure that this front
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part is supported I thought I put enough of our
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strips like this in the floor so on a four Transit this section right
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here there's no support so there's a corrugation rib here there's a corrugation rib here and here
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but this middle section there's no support
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so that's why I put these strips in here to support the floor however what I did
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is I stopped them where the corrugations in the Ford were that was basically just
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on visual so what I should have done and I'm going to take this off because this is dried
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now this is just I'm just using these drawer sizes weight
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but what I should have done is taken this and moved it all the way up here to the front
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so that this this lip right here had something to support it underneath it
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the last support is right here so if we drew a line right here
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that's the last support and this is this much was kind of overhanging now theoretically if we glued the floor
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down it's going to attach to this and support it but
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now that it uh since it doesn't have that we were this was moving and the floor was
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squeaking so what I've done is I took a piece and I have a video off camera I'll show you guys later when we make the full video
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but I took a piece of this and I put felt tape on the back of it so it
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wouldn't squeak on the bottom and then I put a bead of marine adhesive
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and I went like this and I stuffed it underneath here so now
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there is a piece running like this I'll get some more of these pieces so I
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can show you what it looks like as well as getting this felt tape I like
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this felt tape I used it a lot on Thomas's van because he has a really nice sound system and we
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didn't want anything to rattle so this felt tape right here we put on every
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Corner every cabinet Edge I put it on everything the whole entire battery system Edge anything that we
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could have could vibrate so if you can imagine there's now a piece like this
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where the floor is and that's allowing it to be supported and then now it's extremely solid it
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doesn't move at all so that's just a good note
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if you're referencing the van just remember your floor
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you'll visually want to stop putting these things here these pieces of
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just because it looks like that's the right way to right place to put it but in fact you need to extend them
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all the way up to this very edge
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like that that's where they need to be okay so we we solved that now we have a
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very just very firm section right there
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um we can just we'll gently walk over here and so right here it's extremely
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stable
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okay so this piece right here we are going to reinforce this later so
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we'll do this after we uh glue the put the floor down so if I put
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all the weight on it and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to measure over
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here and over here and then I'll shim this up while everything is uh drying so
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I'm not going to do it right now I'm gonna do it after the board gets on there
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okay so without further Ado Let's uh
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let's get going on this
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so we're going to keep all of our weight back here and we're just going to do the same thing that we did on the middle part
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we're going to do on this part one thing I I did was I cleaned up my
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caulking gun if you guys remember it one of the tubes busted and it created a
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a big mess so that has been fixed
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so now we got a new tube in here it's complete completely clean uh it was pretty hard to get it
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completely clean but we we did get it clean
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all right so behind me we've got our floor it's all prepped and ready to go
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I've got a backup caulk gun right here that I'm going to use if this other one runs out
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and we're gonna do the same process we're going to take this and we're going to knock down our bead so that it's
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uh very low profile because we don't want this this top
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piece sitting up at all we don't want any gaps we want it as as tight to this
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surface as possible and we're just going to get the
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leaf blower and we're going to blow this off just one more time get the dust off
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and then I'm also going to see if I can put the put this board in here without
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hitting the live stream camera so that'll be fun
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and as usual if you guys have any questions put those in the in the chat and I'll be happy to answer them
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thank you
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foreign
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[Applause]
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hey guys uh there's something wrong with this caulk gun
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because I used it I just wasted another tube
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look at this so what I did is I tested it
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I put it in here open and I went ahead and broke the seal and it went in just a little bit and for whatever reason
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something is getting cocked inside here and it is just screwing this whole thing
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up look at that all right so we are going to have to
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clean this off again
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I'm not sure why that keeps happening
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if you guys have that Milwaukee caulk gun and it does the same thing to you let me know in the comments because that
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thing is it's not good
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the tubes the tubes of the Marine adhesive are not are not cheap
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and maybe the tubes are not designed for that gun because
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I I have I have no idea
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I'm pretty Savvy with tools and it's weird that I would be having an issue operating
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that thing if you know what I'm talking about
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because I don't think it's the tubes because this tube
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we just finished up this tube look no problem
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so I think Milwaukee has an issue
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so the working time with this is 30 minutes
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if you guys are wondering so that's what time you need to
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you know open this up and get the whole thing going
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yeah we're just gonna go back to this sometimes simpler is better
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[Music]
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see I was hoping to caulk gun would the automatic one would help me with these long kind of skinny
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streams it's this long skinny lines like this
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this is what you want this way you don't actually have to go in and like knock it down like I did the
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other one
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yeah like these long skinny ones this perfect so I guess I'm just gonna have to
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suck it up and do it this way
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foreign
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we finish up we're going to go back and make a couple more paths uh passes on
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the edges
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foreign
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[Music]
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over here get some of these places we missed
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foreign
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s right here
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but still thin
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all right looking good
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I'd say you don't want any gaps bigger than about an inch
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foreign
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let's go and get our knock down everything else looks pretty good but in these like high spots we want to
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knock them down
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yeah pretty much any place that our caulk gun put like a little too much of a dab
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we're kind of looking out for
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if you see these uh chunky things I don't know how they're getting created but pull them out
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all right
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okay I think that's pretty good all right we got one right here
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okay don't waste any more time let's go ahead and get the board down
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it's gonna be tricky because we were able to slide this
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last time into place so now we're gonna have to lay it into
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place so I'm trying to figure out the way I want to do this
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let's see here
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foreign it is good to practice
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how you're going to put it in the van
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so I think I'm gonna put it in this side first
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so I'm gonna lean it on the wood on the left then I'll lay it in there
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flip it back over hit the live stream cam
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okay let's go okay we're going to smush a little bit of our
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stuff right here
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foreign
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there we go and just watch your lines line everything up and keep pushing in
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and we're caught on our little seat piece of our seat over here so we're
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gonna have to do it the other way and go under there we go
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okay let's check our alignment
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okay looks perfect
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the main thing is this shower pin we can shave this off if we need to
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the most important is the shower pan right here
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and our seating
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it's good
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all right it's good
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it's nice and tight here it's nice and tight over here got good
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clearance here for shower pan good clearance here
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okay
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all right now we can stand on it
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I mentioned it before but that's why I like to do the uh some type of liquid
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adhesive instead of the spray type because
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you get one last moment to move it around if you need to
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rather than it just immediately sticking into place
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and again for this particular build these seams right there are not
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our main concern the seam in the back is we'll still do we'll still make sure
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that this one is nice and flush because that's just the way we do things
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but
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all right
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okay we're going to clean off uh with some denatured alcohol this extra
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adhesive over here and then we'll move on to our our next step
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let me just get a rag
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okay
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I'll get a big heavy cases for these joints
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foreign
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[Music]
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anything goes to get weight on this thing so are you guys having the shop your house
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go for it
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you make sure you're really weighing this thing down for 30 minutes that's your
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that's your goal it does take a full 24 hours to cure
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but the first 30 minutes are really important
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there's a big old tire that's going to go in the middle here so
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whatever you guys got right
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so we're going to be streaming for about five more minutes so if you guys have any questions you guys are tuning in
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ask those questions the next five minutes uh because we're going to
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stop we'll reset the cameras and then we're going to go to the back of the van where we're going to uh
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we're gonna reset to install the the piece in the back of the van
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I wasn't joking this is the tire that's going to be going on the back
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Tire Rack pretty soon so look forward for to that video
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all right
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everything you got I'm not kidding make sure you get it
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sealed up just right
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all right that's everything for the kitchen sink to put that down
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see if I have any more questions nope all right guys we will catch you
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in the next live stream
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