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Ford Transit Roof Fan Install (MaxxFan Deluxe 7500K!)
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May 3, 2025
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[Music]
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hey guys welcome back to the shop today's video is exciting because we are moving on to installing the
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max fan up here also called max air fan essentially it is the deluxe version
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and that allows you to ventilate the van which is very very important in van life
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and uh really just any type of van living you're doing exhausting the moisture
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that you're breathing out because you're human is really really important and this max
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fan is the best way to do it so uh what we're doing is we are installing
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this max fan in our adventure wagon kit and when you purchase a kit from
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adventure wagon it's going to have these holes pre-cut out so you may
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decide to have two holes cut out there's additional charges for how many different
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holes you want pre cut out in the roof ceiling so you can do zero one two we just decided to do one and we decided
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to do it in the front typically you would put an air conditioner unit in
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the back and in case a future customer wants to add that option we have a space to add that option but
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if they don't they just want one single fan they can just go with one single fan so we're just doing one fan today
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and what we did is we went ahead and uh pre-installed this panel
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uh now if you're doing the if you're watching this video because you are doing a venture whacking kit then i'll add some details to this
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you want to go ahead and put your panel in because on a ford transit there's actually two
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locations that you can put the vent you can actually put it here or you can put it
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right up here and then there's a special uh
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let me grab it real quick
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okay if you're stalling a vent fan in any type of van
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you will want to purchase a adapter trim ring
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or adapter ring this is going to go on top of this ford transit van
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and ford transit or sprinter promaster they're going to have all these little uh
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body what do you call ribs so in the manufacturing process it you
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know adds strength to the shell of the van but you're going to have these dips and valleys
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and what this adapter ring does is you can see it is going to make up the difference of
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that and give you a flat flush area to mount your
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max fan to they make two of these style two styles of these
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um this one actually comes with the eventual whacking kit and
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there's another company called diy van they sell on ebay and they also have a
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website uh that's why i like to purchase mine from they have really really good quality
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and they have two different styles so they have a style for this location and then they have a style for the forward
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most fan location which is next to this rib up here and it's just designed differently to
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make up for uh this cross area that goes on the roof so you got two options
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so since you guys are watching this again for the adventure wagon
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this one is located to the back and then it is this
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profile here is flush with the roof rib in this location
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and typically max fans are our roof vent fan is a standard 14 by 14
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inches so you take it where this rib is or you take a pencil
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and then just keep your eye here and then you want to make sure that
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this face is equal with this face up here and it is and we're going to go over here
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over here and we just went ahead and traced that trace the sides um
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but once you have that adapter ring you know your location of where your vents gonna go
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go ahead and install this piece from the adventure wagon just to triple check
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because what you need to understand is if you remember when you installed the kit
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everything is trans is translated from itself so if you have one thing in one location and
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you're off a sixteenth of an eighth uh hopefully not a quarter of an inch
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but if you're off just a sixteenth or an eighth of an inch then you will you're going to have
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that much less of an adjustment to where this locates so i took my time and this is perfectly
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located this right here is perfectly here this goes into this slot it goes under the
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slots in the left and right so this whole thing is nice and true
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so just put this panel in just to double check because if you made an error
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and putting in the inventure wagon kit and you need to kind of save yourself
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you can put this panel in and if for some reason you put it into where the adventure wagon gets okay but this panel is
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shifted forward a little bit too far you can make up for it for where the fan location is so
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say like it's a quarter of an inch off you can slide this up forward and then you'll be able to take up that difference
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however try not to do that because it makes everything much much harder
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next you're going to have we're going to go through the process of
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drilling a pilot hole we will take
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so pretend like this is the drill pilot hole we'll drill it right up against this rib
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and then we'll take this adapter ring and we'll come up on the roof and we'll slide it to it knocks into that
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drill bit when it knocks on that drill bit we can go ahead and tape it down
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trace out our line and then
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take it off tape it up we'll enlarge this hole
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for our jigsaw we'll go on top of the van jigsaw this hole out
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and then we'll go through our normal procedure of deburring sanding
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rust preventative once that's finished the next step
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and i'm just being specific to adventure wagon i'll put some other things in here on how i did my personal vans and how
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other vans are done but let me go grab this adhesive real quick
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so when you're putting together or when you're installing the fan and you're putting together your supplies
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that you need there's a lot of different schools of thought on what you can use to seal
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your trim ring the diy vans kit they recommend 3m window weld was like a
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black adhesive and the adventure wagon kit
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this is a terracin ms-5510bk
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elastic adhesive so this is what they put in the kit
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and that's what they're recommending
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and then you can also use
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uh some other adhesives such as uh like sikaflex makes a polyurethane
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sealant that you could put down to glue it down
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of course really that is you're supposed to be used for after you put this or a 3m window weld
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i'll explain that so before you put the actual vent fan in
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after you've cut your hole out you've cleaned everything up and you've done your rust preventative you're gonna put this
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adapter ring on top of the roof um you're gonna double check everything
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and then you're gonna take it off you're gonna take your adhesive 3m window weld or this uh
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ms-5510 and you're gonna squirt it around here
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and then you're gonna clamp it back down and i'm gonna put some pieces of wood
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with my clamp and i'm gonna clamp this down and i'm gonna let it set overnight to cure
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because i want it cured and bonded with the roof and then once i'm finished i'll go ahead and
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uh layout where my holes are going to be drilled
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and you can do a starting hole in each one of these
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and then follow it up with a sheet metal screw to hold
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the actual max fan to the trim ring through the sheet metal
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so i'll explain it one more time you're going to put your adapter ring on and then you're going to put the max fan
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on and then you want to pre-drill your holes for the max fan
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now this is my recommendation pre-drilled the holes for the max fan you don't want to go all the way through
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the sheet metal you just want to drill through the max fan uh
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into this adapter ring and then stop right when you feel that you're
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touching the sheet metal just stop that way you don't break or crack
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this because if you just drill straight through it you have the risk of cracking this and you don't want to crack this
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because that's going to lead to future problems where you may have leaks
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so put this down put your max fan on it the max fans are going to have holes so
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you're just going to follow those holes right to the sheet metal don't go through the sheet metal
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and then when you're ready this will have already been glued you can
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put your max fan back on i take your mixman off put your sealant around here
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then put your max fan on and then now you're ready to take your sheet metal screws and screw them into
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all the holes to get really tight and sealed to the roof
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you're going to want to tape all around this so that you don't get any adhesive or sealant you're already going to be taping it so
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that you can paint and do your rust preventative take that paint off and then move that
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tape a quarter of an inch outside of this so that when your sealant squeezes out
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from your first part of application you can wipe it off and then on your second
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application when the max van goes on top you can wipe that off as well explain why we're doing that
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once you clean up that up twice and everything dries you're going to do a final coat
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of flex seal now it sounds wild that you would use a
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flex seal product for something like this but i was hesitant at first it works incredible
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it gives you a really nice professional look on the outside it's nice and shiny
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it kind of melts into the grooves and it's almost like a sika flex polyurethane sealant
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but it looks very professional i just i like the look and it seals very well
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i've had it on my personal van for two years i've had zero leaks so does a great job and it's really easy to
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touch up because if you miss the area you can just use the same thing and repaint it back on
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um so over time if you've seen videos on youtube or you've seen other people's vans the roof
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gets all nasty and cracks up on the top this you can just clean it up and then reapply it
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to itself so that's this one reason i use that now again nobody's going to be up there
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looking at how clean of a ceiling job you did so the number one
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priority is to make sure that it's not leaking then number two for me is aesthetics i like to take pictures of it make it look
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really nice and professional just as we did on the roof rack you guys can watch that in a different video when
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we sealed up the roof rack uh ports anyway we're gonna get started um
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and pretty much yeah after that flex still dries you're done with the whole entire thing you can play around with opening and
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closing the fan uh the last thing that you need to do and it could be at the beginning or even
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later in your build is figure out how you're gonna do your electrical wiring there's only two wires just a positive
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negative 12 volt wire to power the fan if you get the deluxe model which we're
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installing you're going to get the max fan remote you're going to be able to open it
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remotely and really that electrical cable is the only thing left and you'll be completely
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done and able to enjoy your fan but right now we're going to go ahead and change the camera up we're going to
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drill our pilot hole into the panel right here and then we're just going to do
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step-by-step the procedures that i just went over and we're going to go ahead and start installing our max fan
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okay we're going to go ahead and get started first thing we have to do is take off the ceiling panel
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again we've already gone over here and marked out exactly where our cutout is going to be
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and if you guys really want to triple check there is a
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trim piece that comes with the max fan kit and basically that's going to go right
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up in here and you can see that you've got you know plenty of room for that
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and everything's going to be covered so just give you a little peace of mind
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before you actually start cutting into the roof but what i'm going to do over here is
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i'm actually going to take this back side off and then loosen
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the sides then slide it out
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all right next we are moving to uh set this up so we can cut it up the
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jigsaw so the first thing we want to do is we're going to take a very small drill bit
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about that size and we're going to go over here just in the center doesn't have to be perfectly in the
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center but we want to have the drill bit touching the rib so we know that that is
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the furthest back point and we're just going to go in there drill a hole
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don't forget your safety glasses
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[Music]
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[Music] okay and then we're actually gonna do something
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interesting is we're gonna take our bit take our drill off of the
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bit and then just push the bit up through there so when you drill through and it kind of
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catches take the drill off of it and let it stay tight so you can push it up in there and
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it stays and then we'll go up on the roof and i'll show you why that's important and now we're on top of the van
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and one thing i wanted to make you guys aware of is it's really important to get
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everything nice and clean uh so clean it off before you start
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doing your tape and stuff like that because the tape it's really dusty up here and nothing's really going to stick
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and we want to keep this as clean as possible when we go to cut it out so as you see right now
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this is where our drill bit came through
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and just for illustration purposes another piece of
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pvc here a little bit of lattice
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so if you can see this is where our rib is coming
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and so we're making sure that the [Music]
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we're in front of this rib and then we're measuring out
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the cool thing is we have one of these guys that came in the kit
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and if you notice what this does is this makes everything nice and even up on the roof
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so when we go to put our um
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max fan on here it'll be nice and flat like i said earlier so we're gonna move this piece out this
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just to give you guys a visual of where the beam is coming across
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but we're going to take this
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and we're going to sit on the back side of this drill bit and then we're going to slide
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it forward and then what that does is that locks it into place
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forwards to back and then left to right this gasket is made to sit
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right where it needs to be right in the middle so you can feel it kind of rise up and left and right once you get it to where
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it's flush you know that's exactly where it needs to be so before i actually trace this out
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because this is going to be what we use to cut i'm going to
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take some dna and alcohol and i'm going to clean all this up
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all this gunk up here next we're going to clean up the area
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we're just prepping the surface getting all the dirt off so that when we do scuff it up
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so that we get proper adhesion with the adhesive it's ready to go next take your tape measure double check
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everything make sure you got the adapter ring exactly where you need it before you trace it out with a permanent marker
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once you've traced it out just again triple check that you got your lines where you want them
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and then you're going to go and get your drill get a drill bit that's big enough to
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have your jigsaw blade go through the hole and that's going to
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allow you to have a nice easy start when you start cutting definitely make sure you tape off the
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area as much as possible get that painters plastic put it on your roof and
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contain all those little metal filings it's super important if you don't those metal filings will
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make their way into the paint surface and they're kind of hard to get out if you don't protect it really well
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then you're ready to just go ahead and start following your lines cutting everything out
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use tape to help you along the way this keeps all the vibration down um just makes it
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a really easy experience to jigsaw it out plus um you can do a solo you don't
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have to have somebody worrying about this piece of sheet metal following and tearing something up on the inside of your van
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and makes a whole lot easier
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[Music] alright guys real quick before we get back up on the roof i wanted to show you
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the underside of this so you can get an idea of what it's supposed to look like
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when you get this layout uh all your lines drawn so if you remember what we did here is
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we went through and we made sure that we rode this uh
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cross brace right here and then you can see we have our line that we drew so that right there is
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perfect and then right here that is our line for our opening of the
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bamboo piece um we made it a little bit smaller but that's only because the template up
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there was smaller so anytime that you can take less material away is better so we're going to see if
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that's going to work for us and then right here we have our line
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you guys can see right there so this is
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this is our piece um so we're gonna take it down from here so let me get a
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glove on real quick glasses because this stuff stuff is very
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very very very sharp um okay one more thing before i take this down there's an easy way to
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make this all happen you might have seen it in the time lapse that was just there but what i do is i drill a starter hole you guys have seen that before
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if you watch my videos starter holding your drill your jigsaw in
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and then over here you want to do one on an opposite side so one here and one here
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this one that's right here is going to take you down this way and take you down this way and then this
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one's going to take you down this way and on this way and then basically you won't have to
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you know drill more holes if you wanted it to be faster anyway you want these to be nice and
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square and so when this is finished you should be able to just grab one side
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of it and you've probably seen the way that i taped this
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you can always buy more tape so just use as much tape as possible to control all the sharp metal so it doesn't just
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like fall into your van and scratch things up but we'll go ahead and we'll just peel it off
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you guys see if we just we tape it really nice
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it's really easy to to take off and it can be a one-person job
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all right so now we got our tape so we're gonna take this off
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we will get back up to the top here in just a second [Music]
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if you see that fine-toothed jigsaw does a really really good job at just making
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this a nice clean cut so you don't have to do too much clean up work okay we're back up here on the
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roof first order of business is do not
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collapse the roof find that beam let your knees be on the beam
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and you guys see i have like a little rug towel here okay
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next is to take things off that are going to scratch
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so now that you've finished jigsawing out your hole you can take your plastic with all the little metal filings out
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and just take that away just kind of throw it directly through the hole then take off the tape that you used
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to uh you know be your lines for the jigsaw and then widen them so that now they're
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outside of the trim ring and that is really what's going to help you know get that stuff that oozes out
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like i was saying before what i'm doing right now is i get a little flap disc that i'm going and just
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grinding down any of the burrs that were there i'm taking denatured alcohol and then wiping off any of the excess
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little filings and dust to get it super clean [Music]
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the next step is to get a can of rust-oleum i use a matte black finish and i just spray it into a cup
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take a artist brush and start painting all of the exposed metal edges to do the
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rust preventative after i'm finished with that i'm going to take some denatured alcohol i'm going
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to clean up the adapter ring just to make sure everything has really
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good adhesion i've already scuffed up the underside of
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it so that when i get ready to put my adhesive on it's going to stick really well
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now once you get your adhesive you're going to make want to make three passes
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so an inside pass middle and then outside and each one is
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about an eighth of an inch thick
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passes of adhesive okay another something that's very
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important is when you put this down make sure these dips
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go in the orientation of the roof so where is dipped on each side
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that is going to be your top and back
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so we'll take it and flip it over and then
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kind of get it into place it's pretty tacky
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you're not really going to have to worry about getting it perfect
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[Music] just kind of squeeze it and that's going to set it into place initially
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and then like i said what we're going to do if we have everything nice and
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even here so we're going to go ahead and clamp it down
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the other reason i like clamping it is because i want this to be flat if we just used your hands and pushed it
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it's going to conform to the curve of the van and i don't like that
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so we want to be flat because the fan the whole purpose of this is to put the fan on a flat surface
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so if you guys can see right here see
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it's not flat so we want to make that flat
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this way it's different because the van isn't really curved this way it's curved this
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way um so we'll start out with these two blocks
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these guys i got at lowe's they're really nice they got really good padding
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and they're really easy to to clamp down so we're just gonna put it in here
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squeeze it let that sit put this one over here
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same thing on our back side and make sure you're still able to get
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the tape out if there's tape like i do
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before you completely smush it down um
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remove that tape all right so i didn't do a perfect job with the taping
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i had to move it out of the way of the adapter ring but once i got that finished i went
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ahead and took my wooden pieces that i pre-cut these are 14 inches long
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and that's going to allow me to get a good flat clamping pressure along the adapter ring
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and really take that curve of the van out so that the max fan has a good
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level flat you know platform to stand on
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a lot of people actually don't do this part i just think it's beneficial because if
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you don't take that curve out then the adhesive is having to make up that difference and that's really not
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the best tool to make up that difference so you want to clamp it down and get as
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flat as possible so that adhesive when it gets squeezed it's nice and flat it's not filling any holes or gaps
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speaking of holes and gaps you'll notice that when you put this trimmery on where the corrugations are
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on the four corners there's a little uh gap that you'll need to squirt a little
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extra adhesive in on each of the four corners to get a good seal but you'll see that when you kind of rub
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your finger around it you'll kind of feel an indentation and that's what you need to fill with more adhesive
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once you're finished take the tape off before the adhesive actually dries
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that's the best practice and then just kind of clean up any other drips you might have had and you're all
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set
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alright guys welcome back day two we we're ready to glue in our
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max fan uh top ring so the one that we just did yesterday that is the ring
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um to change the contour or these little corrugations and
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the roof to a nice flat surface uh to mount our
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little mounting ring for the max fan we let this uh
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drive dry for a day and we're gonna go ahead and take all the clamps off
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all right check that out now we have a nice level surface to
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mount on and this is
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nice and secure it also adds a little bit of structure structural rigidity to this front end
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which is now kind of flappy these sides because of the corrugations that are pretty strong
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and this back part is the strongest so what we're going to do today
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is we're going to keep moving on this by installing this ring right here
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when i unpackage the max fan for the box i always put a little arrow to the orientation of this
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it really doesn't matter if it's this way or this way but i like to
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keep it the way in which it was packaged um
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so we're not gluing this on yet we're putting this down because uh
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i do think just a little bit differently we're gonna put this ring up here and uh
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we're actually going to bolt this to the roof so we're not gonna use the screws in the kit we're actually
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going to bolt it and the reason i want to do that is because
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i really want this to be nice and compressed to the roof if you just glue it
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but there's potentials to leak you get the wind buffing it up here
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potentials to loosen it up so it's just what i do
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again might be overkill for some but i feel it is the best way
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uh to install this all right so we're putting our
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little trim ring or a depth ring that goes to the max fan on and i changed my mind with how i was
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going to screw this in i was going to use the factory sheet metal screws that come with the kit that's what i used in my personal van
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but i kind of wanted to upgrade this install and i decided to drill the holes all the way through
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and i purchased stainless steel screws with a
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nyloc blocking nut on the bottom and then so once i cleaned everything up
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uh and i put the max fan top ring on
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again you want to do three passes same thing you did for the adapter ring on the bottom
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once you finish this uh place it on top and what you're going to see is i take those stainless steel screws and i put
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them in all the holes and then i go back with some adhesive and i put
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squirt a little bit adhesive around each head of the bolt on the threads that way
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when i drill them in i get that adhesive drilled down into the hole and it makes a really really
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good seal so just to double check and make sure that's waterproof
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i even go further and put adhesive on top of the screw head
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and then later you'll see i'll talk about following that up with flex cell on top of that
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so this thing is sealed really really well what you just saw here that's the last
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ring of adhesive on the top of the ring
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all right guys we're back on the top of the van we have
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let our adhesive dry it's all set to go got an excellent seal around here
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and we're just going to take this brush and dust it off but first
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actually let me rewind so we put our screws in that you guys saw
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in the time lapse we got them all locked down and we took
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it's a little dollop of the adhesive went around all the screws put a bead around this top this upper
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seal and this thing would be good to go just the way it is
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but i always want to add like a second layer of protection
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because this is going to be in you know direct sunlight and tends to get really brittle over time so
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a little bit of extra work now it goes a long way and then you'll be confident that it's
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not going to leak so the first thing we're going to do is we're going to take this
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scotch bite pad we're just going to we're just going to barely um
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scuff this white part right here and if you hit a little bit of the
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uh the rubber it's no problem because what we're going to do is we're going to come back in here with
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the flex seal and we're going to uh
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flex seal over this whole entire top so basically just going to blanket it
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and flex seal
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and then that's going to give us exactly the seal that we want
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and some say this is overkill but you know the last thing you want is to have
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a roof leak also remember if you're going into any
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winter environments where you got snow [Music] this thing is probably going to be
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sitting in you know maybe half an inch or two inches of snow overnight depending on
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where you're where you're camping at and you're gonna really want this to be
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really sealed up so it can almost almost like it's withstanding setting sitting water
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[Music] you kind of see why i'm doing this the
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rubber sealant or this adhesive doesn't stick that well to this plastic
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i found that flex seal does a much better job
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so i'm really just
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getting this stuff off of here the stuff that's not sticking
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all right i'm just gonna take a brush and just go over this to really clean it up and we're gonna do that before
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we get our taper on the sides
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now we're using the paintable flex seal you can use the spray
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i've used this spray before not on a van i've used it on actually a roof repair
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and again not of a van of a house
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they did very very good so i don't know i'm kind of questionable
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when it comes to as seen on tv products but
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again i've used this on my personal van roof vent it does an excellent job
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so once you have everything dusted and cleaned off uh the next step you want to do
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is go ahead and i'm just going to take these gloves off it's hard to uh
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to do taping jobs with these gloves so
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now remember this taping job that we're doing right now this is just for visual appearance
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so you want to take just a little bit of extra time with this one
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just to make sure it looks really good
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the flex seal is gonna be a little bit more runny than this adhesive that we used
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of course this adhesive that we used was not it's not designed to
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it's an adhesive it's really not designed to kind of gel into place like a lot of
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polyurethane sealants are even though that it is flexible
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um and then also when you're using doing this taping off for this any cracks where these corrugations are
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these liquid sealants tend to find their way into the cracks and then run underneath the tape
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so just make sure when you're doing these corners that you're pushing down before you kind of get the end of the tape in
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so you're kind of conforming to that contour
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and i just make these little 45 angles here on the side
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and i again i'm pushing really hard because this tends to seep underneath those edges
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and this flexo is actually really fun to use i mean you're literally painting on
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liquid rubber so
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if you haven't used before it's fun
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fun to use and i'm going about an eighth of an inch
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sixteenth eighth of an inch outside of the adhesive line just do a little bit
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of an overlap
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[Laughter]
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and once all the tape's down i'm just gonna go through and do one last
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brush make sure we get all our dust off all right now we got our flex seal get a
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little modified screwdriver i used to open cans with just get a little hook on it
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all right we got our flex seal and
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uh you can use a bigger brush i've bought a bunch of these like little craft uh artist brushes from lowe's so
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this is what i have the the other one i have is are these big ones so we don't want to use that
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so i'm just going to use this to paint it on and so we've scuffed everything up and
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i'm actually going to paint this top edge right here the nice thing is
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you actually want you won't see that line you don't want to get into this gasket area
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if you want to you can do this let me show you
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you can tape around this part
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in case you're worried about getting any
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flexo on that uh
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the rim this rim here
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so you can take that off
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and again this is more for aesthetics so that when i take pictures of it it looks nice and pretty
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because it's already sealed i mean this is just extra this is just extra sealing
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so we wanted just to leave it the way it is like this it would be fun
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what i'm going to do is keep this close to the uh uh
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side over here so that i don't drip anywhere and this stuff is very thick you see here
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it's really thick stuff um it takes a little bit of getting used to so when you put it on
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you know you're painting it on but then eventually it'll actually start to uh
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you know it'll start to do its uh gelling thing where it um
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it looks like it streaks but then when you stop it all comes together as one uh
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kind of solid piece uh but make sure you put it on really
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thick that way
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when it gels together like i was saying it makes a nice uniform
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gel pattern
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and last but not least we finish it up with the flex sill uh this stuff is awesome
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again i was really apprehensive about using it but when you start
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putting it on you really understand that it's a pretty cool product i mean you're literally painting on an inner tube seal
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on top of your roof um and i know the
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polyurethane sealant or the lap sealant um
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does a good job but it just looks really messy doesn't look professional i know it
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seals great but i don't know it's just a it's a pet peeve of mine
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now i want it to look good as it seals so this is uh what i've decided to do for my process
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and uh yeah you're just painting it on super thick and what's so nice is it it kind
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of just like melts into the contours of the roof vent
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and just gives such a nice professional finish you'll see here as i get finished i'm
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immediately going around and taking the tape off you always want to do that when you do any type of sealant silicone
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adhesive like that it just comes off super clean anybody that's painted before knows that
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that's the best way to do to take tape off is you know before the paint dries
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and what i'm doing here is i'm just cleaning everything off and you can see how just such a nice clean uh
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professional look that it gives and i really enjoy it
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all right it's time to get the fan on the roof
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all right got everything cleaned up
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i even took my towel off of here which i probably shouldn't have done but
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anyway so this is still drying take your fan out what you want to do is
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twist this right here if you have the motorized version you're going to hear
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that noise of the motor turning just do it nice and easy but you got to
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do this to access these holes these holes
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where your screws are going to go through and into this then you're going to want to make sure
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that these these plastic i mean sorry these metal
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pieces that have the threads in them are aligned with the holes on the inside
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and then you're going to take your fan and it's really this easy
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and without getting adhesive or sealant all over the place
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stick your fan and get this in the hole
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okay you can kind of go around make sure you're you're in
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should drop in nice and easy okay and then you're just going to take
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a phillips screwdriver with the four screws now these screws in your kit they look
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different than all the rest there's they get a fat head but they're short
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not to be confused with the screws that have a little white head that's flat
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that is for your interior trim ring inside the van so uh trying not to get
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those confused also when i install these i notice
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that the uh you do have to push down a little bit
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to get access to some of these holes
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so what i do is i start in the front first because sometimes it seems the front is
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the easiest one to get into one thing you want to do is you do not want to
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you don't want to strip these screws uh it is possible to strip these
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so if you feel like it's not going in all the way just back it out until you hear a click
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right there and then go back in that click is the threads finding itself
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all right guys back from doing a little lunch break back over here on the van
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and we are coming over here to
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get our final two screws put in here and again what i always notice about
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these is you really kind of have to be careful pushing that you need you got to push down to get the screw started
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but just to give everybody a word of caution you can strip these screws
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we don't do it right
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all right simple as that the fan is completely installed ready to go and uh
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yeah i'm just gonna leave this vent up just like that um
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we'll leave this on for customer to peel off so
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that'll be fun unless they don't want to do it then i guess i'll do it um but this will just keep
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this uh shop gets really dusty so we're just doing that to
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keep everything nice and clean anyway that's it if you guys would like
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to see if i get in the camera here
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there you go all right guys that is it for installing the max air fan on top of your roof this
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is the max fan deluxe if you guys have any questions other than what i covered in this video
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put those in the comments below i'm happy to put that into a future video to answer those questions so
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yeah give me those questions and if anybody that you know will like
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this video uh share it to them see if it will help them install their max air fan just a little
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bit easier but until then guys this is it for this video and i will see you in the next one
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