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Ford Transit lift jack points, wheel offsets & getting rims powder coated black
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May 2, 2025
Taking off all wheels & locating lift jack points Ford Transit AWD (sending to get powder coated black). Visit https://www.vanbuilderhq.com to learn more. Interested in building a van? Check out https://www.odysseycustomvans.com
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hey guys welcome back to the live stream tonight we are talking about the transit
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floating in the air and uh right there it is no tires not even a spare tire
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so um yeah this stream is basically the process of lifting the vehicle up
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completely off the ground on jack stands taking all the rims and uh off including
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the spare tire and uh hopping on over to a local powder coater in town
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and uh yeah just kind of wanted to walk you through the process thought it would be something interesting to do a quick stream on
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um but yeah a factory Ford van is going to give you
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probably you know silver rims I don't know if I actually should have pulled up a uh
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picture before typically the Ford Transit when you buy it it's going to have silver steel rims
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um the challenge with the all-wheel drive models of the Ford Transit
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is that the offset of the rims is very aggressive
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and there's only one or two brands that I know of that actually uh
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producing Rim just for the all-wheel drive version of the Ford Transit that mimics the factory offset and a lot of
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people actually don't like the look of them uh so what they do is they typically just
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take the factory wheels that are just plain still rims and then they just paint them black
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and then most split people also if you're if you have the opportunity to purchase a Ford Transit new you can
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request that Ford gives you the black painted rims so you don't have to go through the whole entire process
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I'd considered getting rims for the van and uh Thomas the van that was in here a
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couple uh a couple weeks ago he actually got black rhino rims for his
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van however the offset was not the Ford factory offset because of that the
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wheels protruded a little bit outside of the van um that's not a bad thing especially if
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you're going for that look or style that kind of wide offset
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yeah some people really look enjoy the look of it but because he had that really wide offset his
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um and the picture picture let me zoom in here because he had the
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uh such an aggressive offset what happens is actually let me get my
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drawing pad out that would be better
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so I'm gonna go over here to the drawing pad and I'll explain to you a little bit about offsets
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very very quickly nothing nothing too in depth but once again if you guys are here
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tonight feel free to answer any questions or ask any questions
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I'm going to wait my little Notepad opened up here
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okay all right look at my mic perfect there
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we go okay so we're gonna hop over to
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actually let me fix this
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lighting really quick
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there we go much better
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all right okay to the drawing board
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so in the black color I'm gonna Trace out the wheel well we are looking
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straight down on the wheel well so this is the wheel well
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this is the bumper okay
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there's the bumper and just bear with me here this is just
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for illustration purposes only we've got a
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foreign would be
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okay and so let's call this right here the factory
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offset
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um
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okay so the factory offset is going to give you a clean line
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right here and what's happening inside the rim
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I'm going to do this into red so what's happening inside the rim is Ford is coming in here and coming pretty
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aggressive to the uh yeah let me back up
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so this is the inside of the rim
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okay and then inside the rim and then you have your
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this is where your axle is and then this is your lug nuts coming
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out
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so when you have a Factory offset
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ah come on see if I can this example better for you guys
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there we go
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when you have a factory offset things are not going to rub that's how it's designed for the factory and you buy
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when you buy a new vehicle you would not expect or anything to rub
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so
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in order to do that the factory will make sure that the rim
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the wheel inside the wheel well that the offset is correct
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I mean my drawing skills are not doing good tonight
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there we go okay we're gonna hang up it here I haven't drawn to this thing in a while
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there we go okay
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so what the factory does is they obviously want your wheels to not rub
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when you are turning your tire and the way they achieve this is they
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have um they allow the tire to turn and not rub on the inside right here
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and that has to do with the offset so this orange part right here if you guys can see let me get my mouse
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this orange part oh there we go this orange part is what
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designates your offset so right here we have a Factory offset
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which allows the tire to be flush with the outside of the van over here on the right hand side we're
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going to draw something that is not Factory offset
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so this would be sticking out of the van you've seen trucks like this on the highway
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where their pickup trucks are lifted and
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the tire is poking out side of the van so it's coming out of the van
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so now the offset is right is out here
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so what's happening is it's actually what's happening inside the rim this is
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this is what's causing the offset to occur
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so if you look here on this picture you can see it's uh it's
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sticking out here over here let's get a rim where the face
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of it is sticking on the Hub here
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and we'll just over exaggerate it to make a point so this
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Is Where It Bolts onto your hub or your axle
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and we're gonna make an imaginary line of where the other one is so this dotted line is
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effectively this line hold on a second
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there we go so you can see there's a difference
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between this and here so this is your offset so whenever you
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hear positive or negative offset this is how that is being achieved there's
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either more material in the rim that is pushing the tire out or there's less material in the will Rim
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that's causing the wheel to come into the van
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so in this example on my left this offset
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is causing the rim to come into the van and this offset is causing the rim to go
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outside of the van so this right here
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right there that is what causes your rim to stick out
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now yes you could buy some things called a spacer block that goes right here
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and that spacer block block would actually push your Rim out more
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uh but typically It's usually the rim that's pushing your
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will out and you can actually do this accidentally you could order the wrong size rim with the wrong offset and get
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the rim sticking out and have it under desired effect or you could be doing it on purpose and have the desired effect
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of the rim sticking out the problem with that is if you see over here on my left
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right here and we're going to use green when this rim on the left when it comes
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in here and it turns it's not going to
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uh Touch This because
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it's going to the inside of the wheel well
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but if you have it sticking out it's going to make a line here and it's
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going to rub the inside of the fender
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and I know this is not the best example but here if the tire is turned so if the
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tire you know is turning this way like that it won't rub over here on the factory
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offset but then over here it's turning and this is turning in
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if it has too much of a um
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positive offset it's going to most likely rub
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and to compound this effect we're we're always wanting to put bigger tires on our vehicles you know we want to lift
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them we want bigger tires and you can only go so big on a factory
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um setup until you actually have to start cutting so on Thomas's van we actually
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did have to trim his uh his van
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and so he got it done uh at another shop when he was getting the
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van lifted and then uh the suspension installed
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um I did not do that one so we had another uh there was another shop that did that and then there was another shop later on
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where he picked up some more uh equipment and they did a further
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detailed uh cutting of this trim I mean this uh seam weld right here
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so this seam weld uh it's also well I guess you could say
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spot what um yeah team world so this part right here
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had to be cut at least about a half an inch and the plastic as well to make up for the difference in the
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offset so for example if we go to
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um let me go to an example here I wanted to show you and feel free to ask any questions while
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we're on here um I'm going to hop on over to a website
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so we're gonna head on over to far outride.com and no affiliation with them this is
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just a good place to go to to get some information about tires and fitment they have uh
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they can show you um what is the maximum size that's going to fit on a Ford Transit so the tires that
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I got for my van were 255 70 16.
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and the two 55 70 16 these are the these are the largest size possible on a stock
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wheel with no modifications to the van body
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um Thomas's actually had to be a smaller tire size to make up for the
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offset uh issue that he had um
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because the black rhino rims that he had the the offset was too much too positive which caused it to
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rub and to minimize the rubbing you do need to go with a smaller Tire which may
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not be the direction you want to go so if you want the full wheel well look and you're not lifting the Ford Transit
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the biggest tire that you can get um is a 255 70 16 on a factory rim
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the 255 is the width of the tire and the 70 uh is the thickness or the wall uh
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sidewall height so typically this number might be like a
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245 75 16. so that would be narrower but your
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um let me back up here that would be narrower but 75 would give
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you a thicker sidewall which would bring you right back to where you are um there's a there's a awesome tool here
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it's called Tire size calculator
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and I use this all the time it's really cool so if we looked uh if we go and we want
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to do a tire comparison um you guys will love this so let's go and
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put our 235 65 16.
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um I believe that's the factory Ford size tire and then we're going to type in 255
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70 16. okay when we click compare you're going to
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see two things happen let me move my face out of the way uh you're gonna see number one this is
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our factory rim our factory tire size and the second one this is our upgraded
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Tire so in the entire I used to work at a tire shop during the
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Summers in college and uh you know just installing tires mounting balancing
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tires doing oil changes that type of stuff and a lot of people used to do something
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like it was like a plus one so basically what you would do is you just add to this so you would if you wanted a bigger
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tire you could have 235 you might bump up to a 245. and then 65 you might go to 70. so I
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could 245 76 team but we're trying to go all out and
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get the max size that we can get in here the nice thing about the internet these
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days is you can go on just the website just like far out ride and they're gonna somebody's has will have already done
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this you're not going to have to do the homework you're not going to have to buy a tire and figure out if it's going to fit
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um you can pretty much just go off of them uh as long as they're reputable
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obviously but on the tire size calculator you can see number one is our factory tire
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and two is our bigger tire and I just let me see here
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uh we're gonna go back one second board Factory Ford Transit
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Ford Transit rim size 235 65 16. okay I was right
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all right so we have um time on the left and then turn on the right you can see the tire on the left that's
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the factory tire is 28 inches high and the one on the right is 30 inches high
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if you look on the uh
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let's see here the diameter you can see you actually get uh somewhat of a lift
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from using the bigger BFG Tire and then you also have more width
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but the main thing to understand when you do a bigger diameter is you are going to offset your
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speedometer so your speedometer is not going to be accurate anymore and unfortunately as far as I know right now
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you cannot dial in the Ford Transit odometer to
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make up for your change to tire size it's just going to be off so when you're going 70 miles an hour
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you're actually going 75 miles an hour so it's it's important to uh
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just be a be be aware of that and then you if you your odometer says you're going 70 you will be speeding going 75
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and it actually gets progressively worse as you go higher
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um yeah so we are going with the 255 70
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16 tire on the Ford Transit um again hop on over here check this uh
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these guys website out uh they're gonna explain to you um
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you know what they like about these tires there's what they look like on Ford Transit and then here's a Ford
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Transit with the factory wheels
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last but not least let's talk about Tire load index just a quick little safety thing here the title index is extremely
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important if you do not get the right load so
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the last letter here says e so there's different load of tires there's uh
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deload e-load and the difference is literally in the name it's how much
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weight the tire can hold now to safely carry everything in your van and be
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within the specs of Ford Ford has designated an e-load tire for the capacity
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of the van if you guys want to know if you want to learn more about that I'm
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gonna put a link in the uh in Lincoln here I did a live where I
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talked about Tire safety let's see here I'm going to pull it up really quick and we're gonna
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get right back into this
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um too heavy is that yeah so the name of the video is Van Waite
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how to know what load is safe for your camper build out so I'm just going to copy it paste it in
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here and then I'm going to share the link
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okay so this video and Link is going to teach you
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uh how to safely load your van and it's also going to talk about tire weight ratings so we won't go into detail about
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that here but essentially elode is kind of like the maximum load
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tire that you can buy has more Plies so we got
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10 Plies versus eight I'm not gonna read everything off their site this is just for you guys to reference so we'll go
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ahead and move on uh tire size calculator it's another website that I use that we just looked
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at okay so you got the
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let's see here boom look at the van okay so we figured out
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our rim and tire size so we know what we're putting on the van uh we're taking it to be powder coated so what's the
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next what's the final thing that holds the whole entire van together that's the lug nuts so the lug nuts on this Ford Transit are
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they look like this and they're not that pretty because the stud sticks through the bolt and you get
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like a silver stud you got a black nut it just doesn't um and then you got the plastic wheel
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cover so it doesn't look like a uh a pro
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job so what you can do is check online and we're going to look up
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something called um lug nuts
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you guys probably know what lug nuts are but if you don't know them they are exactly what I just pulled up
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here but you can actually buy ones that have been uh
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uh I want to say modified but they have been
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uh they have a cap on them so the top of it encloses the thread so it's more of a
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you know aesthetically pleasing however you have to get a special one for the all-wheel drive Ford Transit
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it's not the same as a factory Ford Transit not only do the non-oil drive versions
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have uh different lug nuts but
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um the way that their design is different so through combing the internet I found
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that of all people flarespace actually had lug nuts you could buy typically flare spaces where you guys will buy
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your Bump outs bedding stuff like that again not affiliated with Flare space but I've gone to a lot of
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van shows they're always there um you'll see them with a van talking about the the flares
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which are essentially the bump out so you can have more room within the van
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and you can sleep sideways um but yeah they have beds uh different
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accessories actually have some stuff for Revel and it looks like they're getting into a
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little bit more of the accessory market and they have these lugs for the Ford Transit
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I went here specifically because there's two or three other websites that have these but
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there's a special ring so if you see this uh ring here
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let me go back to my face so I've never seen this in a lug nut before but watch I'm going to spin the
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lug nut and so it's like a stamped on ring that's that's pre it's pressed on or
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made into the nut see that and so this needs to be there typically
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a lug nut just has this top part and this flange and it does not have this bottom part
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so I kept looking around and although there was some similar ones this is the only one that I saw that it had it in
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the picture so I went and bought it now um they're 5.50
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each so you're gonna need 24 for the all-wheel drive Ford Transit
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uh don't worry about the spare tire because
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depending on the spare tire rack that you're going to get
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um you don't know what it's going to look like so I'd wait to get your spare tire
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carrier in first put the tire on it then kind of figure out what you want to do if this is something that fits just
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order you know six more or something like that uh so that's okay so I did that uh The
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Next Step that I did was um yeah I lifted the van up so I went to uh
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Harbor Freight because I have a bunch of jack stands in the shop however I did not feel safe
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with the load rating of them so this van about seven to uh
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75 to 8 000 pounds so 7 500 8 000 pounds uh all the
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way up to um I think the gbrw is like ten thousand or something like that
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so you're kind of looking for stuff in that range the nice thing about Harbor Freight is you can just max out that's what I did I
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just went over to Harbor Freight and I went straight to the bus the biggest one they had which was a six ton
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jack stand so I bought this 6-ton jack stand not only for the load rating but if you notice if you've ever bought jack
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stands before these uh uh let's see here
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if you look at the three ton jack stands if you look see the feet it's a sharp edge
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so the problem is uh I just did the epoxy floors in this shop and they're
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really nice I don't want to tear them up if you get these jack stands and you have a van that weighs that much it's
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going to cut into the epoxy floor so I saw that the where is it
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the six tons had this little foot at the bottom Old Triangle Foot and they worked out
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great so it's behind me right now you can see we've got
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one here and then we've got one back there and there's four jack stands hold the
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whole entire van up yeah so the nice thing about Harbor Freight is you can just buy the heavy
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duty ones and you're still going to get pretty good pretty good price
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um then last but not least I went and got the
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six no no the four ton
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the four ton lift where is it
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it's the Daytona lift um floor jack
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four ton so 410 was the biggest one they had in the shop and that's what 8 000 pounds
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something like that yeah eight thousand pounds so you're good
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you're good so I use this I just got out of the box and good to go
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um I do have a little video of that for you guys
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so you guys will see this later but I went through and uh opened up the box
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all you have to do is just take it out of the box uh put the handle in it and that's it
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um simple as that it's ready to go so I use this
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and before you take the wheels off it's really good to go ahead and break the
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lug nuts loose not all the way just break them loose so that um you're not turning the whole entire
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Tire if you forget you can go to the back the back axle you can turn later after
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you've lift it up because the parking brake is holding those Wheels but the front is not being held by the parking
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brake um now there's a bunch of pinions online about where to lift the all-wheel drive
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Ford Transit and I'm going to show you what I did
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um so what we're looking at here is the
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rear of the van you want to make sure you chalk the wheels so that's basically put in two by fours so the wheel doesn't
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the van doesn't move so I did that um
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and then when I got to the back uh the best way let's see what's the best way to show you guys this other
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than the time lapse all right we'll come back to that let me go to the photos
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there we go okay so here is the photo of underneath uh the transit
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and I'm gonna move my make this smaller okay so here we go we are underneath the
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Ford Transit that is floating above the ground and it might be
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kind of cringy but trust me I have there's a lot of thought put into this
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to get it safely up like this so I'm gonna walk you through it right now so
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yeah take a minute and we're just going through this nice and slow if you guys have any questions put those in the
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comments as we're doing this I'll stop to answer any questions so the Ford Transit
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uh the most dangerous thing that can happen when you're doing this and okay let me back up
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the reason that I'm not taking the van and driving it to a shop with the tires in the back having them unmount the
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tires put the new tires on it's because I'm getting the I'm getting the rims painted or powder coated
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actually specifically giving them powder coated there's two different things between painted and powder coated I'm
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getting them powder coated powder coated excellent finish very durable but the reason I'm doing it this way
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is because um my personal van my tires are
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um I'm using the tire the factory tires that will have no purpose I'm taking
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them and putting them on my personal van to use and then
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once they're unmounted off the rim I'm taking the bare Rim that's going to the
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powder coaters to get powder coated and then they have the BF Goodrich ko2 Tires
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and then they're going to mount that to the rim after they powder coat it and I want that to happen because I
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don't want to take it to a tire shop and do all this run around town but if the company that's mounting the tires
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is mounting them to the rims they just painted they're not going to want to Nick or damage the rim that they just
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powder coated for you so that's why I'm having the tires mounted
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and then I'm gonna go and pick them up and bring them back lastly it just has to do simply with
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this is a brand new van it's there's no reason to risk driving this or put in on
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the road for something to happen or put miles on it so yeah that's a long answer for that
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all right so we have four of these jack stands and the way that I did it was I started with the front of the van and
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then I moved to the back the reason you want to start with the front is the rear axle is the only thing keeping your van
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from moving uh I'm moving moving when you lift it up in
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the air um so you want to keep these rear wheels down first so I went and I took the
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front right I lifted it up and I lifted it
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uh right here if you guys can see where this bolt is this Bolt is the rear part of the frame
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there's two places you can do it it's up here and then
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uh right where this bolt is so it does not specify that you can lift it
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where this bolt is I just want to be clear about that however on sprinters there is a bolt same exact
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Bolt used for this uh undercarriage assembly
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and that is where the lifting point is because this goes straight up and into
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uh the unibody frame right there so I lifted it here
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the reason I did not use where my jack stand is is because that's where I needed my jack stand to be I could not
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um you can't be in two places at one time so what I did was I lifted up on this
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Bolt and then when I got it to where I wanted it to be I set it down on the jack stand
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right here okay and that was what I did on the front
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I did not okay through this process I did not take all the tires off to the very end that's
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that's very important to to do that to wait
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um let's make sure this is big there we go
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okay so we're at the back of the okay so we lift this wheel up and we put the
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Jacks in under it we left the wheel on but we did break the lug nuts loose before we lifted it up then we moved to
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the back of the van and we lifted up the right side of the rear axle
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we lifted right here where this little hand is like where that little barcode is we
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lift it up there in the axle and that is because we needed to move the floor jack out of the way after we
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put the jack stand in um and there's kind of a clearance issue
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when you have a jack stand this big so I lifted it up
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of course I broke those bolts loose before I lifted it up make sure the parking brake obviously is
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engaged on this back rim because of this back axle because once you lift up this rear right side you only have one tire
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that is touching the ground with the chalks and that's the only thing keeping your van from moving
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your front jack stand does have weight bearing on it but just be very careful
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to make sure you have this friction point back here in the back okay so once you gently lift up the
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right put the jack stand underneath it and lower it onto the jack stand okay so
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once you've done the front and the back make sure the tires you do not take the tires off yet make sure they're above
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the ground maybe half an inch or two inches but keep the wheels on you want the
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tires still on here in case of an emergency say something just something messes up or fails you have the tires
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still there next we move to the left hand side and we're going to go to the left hand
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side but we're going to do the front driver's Tire on the front so we're going to lift it
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up we're gonna do the same process that we did as the right front lower it down the jack stand
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make sure we break the bolts loose on the wheel before we go back or lift it up okay so now we're done with that we move
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to the rear with our last Jack stem we've gently lift the
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rear left up uh you got to be very careful because once this tire comes up in the air
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you have three jack stands supporting the van now and you just want to make sure that uh
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with the van that's slightly tilted that the tire is not going to kick out too much uh it moved just maybe a quarter of an
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inch but just go easy um once you've got that finished put the
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jack stand in and then lower it down so if you do that nice and easy take your time
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the fans can be very stable nothing crazy is going to happen and then last but not least you guys can
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see here we lowered the uh wheel from the rear of the van and the
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way you do that
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um is you're going to go to the back of the van and
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there is this little plate box right here and you're going to take a half inch ratchet and that is what you're
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going to use to lower the wheel down so as you move this ratchet the wheel is
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going to start to come down just like that now be careful there's a
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safety line that you have to unscrew from the wheel and then you have to take out this little uh
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uh bit that's actually the flange that holds the wheel together
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so once you do that you're gonna take your tire all five
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and you're gonna put them in a pile and I'm going to make a note here this
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last tire that is the spare tire Ford it must be a cost saving measure but they do not put in a TPMS sensor in
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the will so that's a tire pressure monitoring sensor you're going to have to do that yourself you're going to have
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to um well not yourself I'm sorry when you get your wheels painted or
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powder coated whichever one you want to do um
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make sure that you tell them if this might be too difficult but
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see if they can segregate the four tires with the pressure tire pressure monitoring sensors from the last spare
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because if you get it mixed up your computer is going to say hey this wheel doesn't have it you're gonna have to go back to your house Park lift the van up
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take one Rim off switch it with your spare tire put it back on and continue it's not the end of the
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world but it's just really inconvenient but the spare tire on a Ford Transit
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does not come with a tire pressure monitoring sensor in it uh so that might be good to know if you
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do have a flat down the road you're not going to see the air pressure in that tire
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so next loaded up everything up in the van and um
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yeah somehow I was able to fit all five wheels and all five of the uh the bfgs
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in it so worked out pretty good
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all right and rim repair of Hickory this is where I drove over and um dropped off
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these tires so hopefully Tuesday next week I think is when they're going to get them back to
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me um so they have a whole shop they obviously do rim repair there's nothing
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really to repair my rims but they do have a powder coating Booth as well as doing just standard paint
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so our plan is to get the rims powder coated uh that makes sure that we don't have to
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do an additional week of drying time for like an enamel or something they would spray on
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uh however they're going to do their best to match the gloss powder coat to
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the wheel caps the wheel caps are plastic so they have to be painted so they're going to be painted gloss
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back black the Rams are gonna pay are powder coated gloss black and hopefully the you know
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shade of gloss is not going to be too much of a difference but I think it'll be okay
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um yep then we just come back to the shop and this is just me showing you guys these pictures of underneath the
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van so yeah hope hopefully hopefully this
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was uh helpful to you guys if you're looking to get your rims painted uh and
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you will be diying it lifting your whole hand up in the air um
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if my under tank are gray water tank that's under mounted comes in this
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actually probably be perfect to have a lot of space to get under there and just bolt that while I'm waiting on the tires
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to get finished but not sure if that's going to come in
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um yeah but I do want to take this time and invite you guys to hop on over to
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vanbuilderhq.com and check out the DIY van build cheat sheet so this is a cheat
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sheet that I created to help you guys jump start your camper van conversion and what is in this cheat
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sheet so this cheat sheet when you click on the link put your name and email and
45:26
click download this is what you're going to get in your inbox it is essentially an Excel sheet that
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I've organized and it is the past three years of all of my van specific Amazon
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purchases there's over 250 of these purchases inside this document with the
45:47
link to check out the product not only do you have you know cargo
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electrical items such as you know all the fuses um uh the fuse holders that I use uh LED
46:02
wiring all of that stuff you also have all the Fasteners so you guys have seen me do a lot of the 80 20 stuff on
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Thomas's van and I use a bunch of stainless steel fasteners uh different
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various sizes and this labels everything that I've ordered
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um there's all kinds of stuff too such as brackets that I've used before
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um you guys know that I'm a big fan of the psycho head cap screws for the 80 20. uh for like HVAC we've got everything
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from the max air vents um to other events as well
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the thing that I think is going to help you guys the most on this to get started so just think of this as just a quick
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way to find and access uh curated tools for your van build
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so if you're diyer and you're just starting out maybe you know a lot about tools or maybe you don't have tools
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at all you're starting from scratch these tools 100 are ones that I used
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at any moment that I'm using are working on the van so this tool section everything from the
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rivet nut tool to the rivnut drill adapter kit
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um even the hydraulic cable lug crimping tool to make all of my cable crimps
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especially for those four odd battery lugs I mean those things are really chunky and that tool helped me out a bunch
47:35
uh the propex expansion toolkit for all the pro-pex
47:40
um or the PEX a that we did within the van on Thomas's van uh the soldering
47:45
station I use this for wiring all of his soldering all of his uh ceiling LEDs
47:51
together and then deburring tools so anything in
47:56
here I bought it I used it just a really quick way to uh to look
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um and just yesterday I went and used my own sheet to find this one solar panel that I bought uh
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this form was actually quicker to access than me going through my Amazon history which is pretty cool I was looking for
48:18
this specific 200 watt solar panel uh thing right here that I I bought
48:24
went right to it it was very convenient so you guys can get this
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for free fanbuilderhq.com click on get my free cheat sheet
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name email address when you click download now it's going to go straight to your inbox you're going to get this
48:42
form and you can organize it however you'd like and uh the best part
48:48
is it's a living document so the more stuff I get in the shop the stuff that I want to put on this list to
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help you guys out um things that I think are good products or stuff that I use that you can purchase through Amazon they're going to
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be on this list so it's going to be growing over time
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all right and uh last but not least we're going to talk about Odyssey
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Odyssey custom vans that's my professional fan building business and this is the website
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odysseycustomvans.com if you guys are looking for a professional van build I'd
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love to get in touch so hop on over to the contact page you can fill out the form to contact me
49:29
directly at your name last name email phone and subject
49:35
um and then the message box you know tell me your story why are you getting into a van conversion you know what are
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you looking to do are you looking to go across the country or you want to some have something for the weekend
49:47
um do you want something for friends or is this something that's going to have uh family kids
49:53
um going to campgrounds that sort of thing there's all kinds of different ways that you can really make uh your
49:59
van build your own love to hop on a consultation with you you fill this form it goes directly to
50:05
my inbox and uh yeah we can hop on a phone call and I'd love to see uh what your plans are
50:12
all right back to the end of the stream um if you guys have any questions I'm gonna be on here for about one minute
50:18
and uh be happy to answer any questions you might have uh while those questions are coming in
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I'm going to just uh pull up this floating Van image
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because it looks fun but uh yeah so hopefully I'm going to be
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getting these wheels uh and with the tires mounted by Tuesday or Wednesday next week
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and then we'll do a live stream I'll show you uh I'll show you
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show you these being installed back onto the van uh we'll look up you know torque
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specification stuff like that so you guys are aware of everything and then we'll also
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um look at the clearance that these have uh as well as just the appearance I mean
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the black rims with the BFG tires are going to look really really good
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um which reminds me I need to call those guys up tomorrow and make sure that they have the uh the black wall facing out
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and the white wall facing in um it's a good note to think about when you're getting tires mounted especially
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ones that have a white wall side or white lettering side sometimes they forget to ask so just make sure you
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you know get what you want but um guys that is it for tonight's live stream I hope you enjoyed it uh if you
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have any questions put those in the comments below I always love looking through the comments he just knows for topics for future live
51:43
streams and uh yeah once again hope you enjoyed it and we'll see you guys in the
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