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Ford Transit Rear Tire Carrier Install Flat Line Van Co.
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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream tonight if you just join us for the previous live stream we were upholster we uh finished doing our VY
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graphic on the acrylic piece that we upholstered for the back of the battery
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system on the van I'll show you a little sneak peek of that it's right over there we'll be right back there in just a
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second um I just fixed the microphone so that's why we had to redo this one but
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uh everything's good now so everything sounds great we're going to keep on going this video you guys are here for
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the Flatline vanco driver side rear tire carrier install so instead of going step
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by step uh as we do pretty much through everything this live stream is going to go over uh some Pro tips that uh of some
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things that I ran into during the install that you guys might find helpful
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if you're getting ready to do this and you don't want to deal with them has to do with the brackets has to do with uh
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drilling some holes and stuff like that so we're going to go over all that um and that's pretty much going to be the
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live stream this afternoon we have the questions opening open in the chat if you guys have any questions um and you
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want to uh hop in the chat and ask me those questions uh I'd love to Sam the computer right here is away from
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the van so I might have to jog back and forth but yeah let's go ahead and get
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started I'm going to hop on over to the other camera and we're going to go from there so let's make sure everything's
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working looks okay had a little audio issues earlier so I'm
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hoping this is going to work and we're g to go from
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there all right let me get this camera dialed in really
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quick all right yeah the feed looks pretty good okay all right let's go ahead and get started we've
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got the back side of the door um actually I'm going to zoom into this
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panel because I told you guys that if you were jumping from the P stream to this live stream that I would talk about
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it so this right here is what I just finished working
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on so we're just going to talk about it real brief we're going to get get the Flatline vanco rack but so this is what
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I made it is uh upholstered panel this is a piece of uh Birch and we painted it
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and then we wrapped it in Marathon um fabric so so the gray
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Heather we have our etched glass logo on there and then this is going to slide in
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uh we still got to put some pieces of 8020 to uh get this into its
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spot but pretty much all we do is just take this and then we're going to get a
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[Applause] screw I'm going to come in
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here and again this is just temporary but I just wanted to uh show you guys
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this tonight because it's pretty exciting so there you go so we've got our nice got a logo there kind of
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covering everything up uh I left this bottom space open because this is where we're going to have the information
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coming out of the inverter and then your indicator lights for your Renegy system um it's important to make sure that you
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can see them and see what they're telling you uh but if you want to know
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how to do this uh acrylic panel you can go to the previous live stream check it
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out and it'll walk you through the process but it's kind of like a
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signature thing I'm doing on my van builds um not sure if everyone's going to like it but
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but uh having done the whole car customization thing growing up um I kind
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of like the way it looks how you can see the internals but you guys are here not for that you're here for the rear tire
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carrier so let's get this reframed and let's start talking about
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this so make sure my audio is
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good yep all right so the Flatline vanco rear
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tire carrier this is Loosely on here because
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we're going to be doing this together tonight but here's the carrier itself
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it's kind of what it looks like it's Loosely on here like I just said it's just got two bolts uh the main point is
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this right here is the piece that we are working on at the current moment so what
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I've done is you're you're going to have a template in your kit and you're going to need
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to uh put the template on it goes from here down actually from here down and it
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kind of comes into this right angle uh find your hole drill a pilot
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hole and then you know enlarge it to the drill bit size that they recommend using now when you're done with that
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that will be where this bolts do so it's I mean that's pretty straightforward
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here's where the challenge comes in you also need a hole here some Ford transits uh I've
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noticed this one did not have a slot from the factory I don't know if it's because it's the 2020 model year or
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whatnot but there's a slot over here on this side there's not a slot on this side so what I had to do was I had to
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put this internal bracket in drill from the inside out and then relocate this hole hopefully you don't have to do that
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because this was pretty challenging uh it's a visual spot it's a spot you don't want to mess up on you want to drill
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once get it right uh because this is where you open the door all the time so
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this is exposed so that was a challenging part the other challenging part is the actual brackets
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themselves so you'll need somebody to help you I tried to do with a jack stand and just lower loosen one side at a
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time and that tended to that did not uh work out the way that I thought it would
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um um so uh had another set of hands come in
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and we did the bottom bracket kind of tilted the door out did the top bracket tilted it back
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out come to find out this top bracket up here it really has the fitment of this
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has to do with the alignment of your door so if this door is aligned properly
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from Ford and your body body panels here are riveted and they are all like
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they're supposed to be you're not going to have an issue however on this door the issue that I
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had here trying to make sure that this is in
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frame for you guys the issue I had was this bracket up
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here and I may move the camera um this bracket up here was
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touching the door hinge so the bracket was on but it was uh
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touching this this part of the van so this body panel so if I had shut the
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door it would have made a little Dent inside the back of the van so what I had to do is I had to actually take this off
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and I had to grind down that 90° corner to more of like a 45 and then have like
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a nice bevel on it that gave me enough room so that when this is fully closed
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it's not touching anything the brackets are aluminum so luckily you know they're not going to corrode too bad spray paint
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it with some matte black spray paint that Fusion spray paint and um it was uh
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it worked out perfect so let's see here there we
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go away from my computer so I need to make sure you guys can see me um all right so that actually worked
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out pretty good this was a challenge over here the good news is I've fast forwarded
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everything so I've already did rest preventative on the inside of this uh that bracket is
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actually right
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here so this is what the bracket looks like and so what this is going to do is
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uh let's see here one one side's going to go like this and then one side is going to uh be over
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here so you both you have up and down movement here and then in and out play the one with the in and out is the outer
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bolt and the one with the up and down play is the uh this side bolt that's going to go
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in uh let's see how that's looking on camera really
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quick okay looks pretty good
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all right so the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to come in
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here and we need to get our
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bolt so if you were installing this again this is not really a step-by-step install video this is I'm really
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pointing out all the issues that I had so that when you guys get ready to approach this you're not having these issues so check your brackets to make
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sure that when you shut the door they're not p pinching into the van body itself
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so check that carefully um actually before you do that you need to make take a permanent marker
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and mark for your um uh your door alignment so you need a
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top Mark a bottom Mark and a side mark because you need to when you put the door back on you need to get the bracket
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on but you need to reset the door so that uh it's an alignment and you need
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to make those alignment marks long don't make them short because the bracket from Flatline vanco is going to cover up
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those lines and you won't be able to see them if you don't make them long enough and it defeats the whole entire purpose
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so do that check the brackets make sure they do not cutting into your van because that would be you know it's
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pretty bad um and then once you do that go ahead and uh test fit the rack so don't go
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ahead and commit to tightening down those uh bolts yet uh put the rack on
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there there make sure everything fits and it's an uh rough alignment and then go ahead
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and cinch down on or Torque down the Brack the U the door hanging uh
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bracket the hinge bolts once you do that take your four
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screws Loosely put on this uh rack and then put it on so that you can do what
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I'm doing so see how it's just it's ever so slightly just I mean I can move
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this take this get it in place and then what you want to do is you want to go ahead and tighten
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down the bottom one and the top one and you want this whole rack to be away from
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the van so don't slide it into the van because this is going to cut into your paint down here at the bottom and uh
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it's going to rub up against your plastic so you want to have your whole the whole rack pulled out and
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pulled out from the top all right uh this is all stuff that
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uh I didn't find uh until I did it so pull out from the bottom pull it from
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the top top and then go ahead and tighten the top bolt down just one and the bottom one just one and then that is
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going to make sure that you can verify where your hole is now the template should be accurate
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but you always want to double check this stuff um you know somebody could have welded something something off a little
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bit somebody could have trust me even though you have a template do
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this put this on and that way you'll know that everything
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is as close as it's going to be when you get done go ahead and take a
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center punch and just do a little punch down right here and then look at your uh
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template that they give you and see how off it is if it's spot on cool move
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forward if not you're going to want to use what you just did here as your
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reference and not uh what you were using from the template
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hopefully that makes sense then you're going to drill the hole and there's two sheets of there's a
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thin sheet of sheet metal and then there's a reinforcement tab in the back so just be very careful when you're
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drilling this that when you go through the sheet metal you still got some more metal to keep going and not only that
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the mechanism that opens and shuts the door right here the cable the cable is
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right here so once you make it through to the other side don't go crazy you know
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drilling out the hole because you might start to cut at that cable that's on the inside that is why they recom or they
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ask you to take take off this interior panel not only so you
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can put this bolt and Hardware kit on but I'm guessing because uh they would
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like you to be aware of that um uh piece of piece of the cable that's
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in here also you're going to have to take all this off take the plastic off um
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from Ford because you want to get up in here not only for this Hardware but once you drill the holes you're going to get
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a can of spray paint and make sure you do Rust preventive on both of the holes before moving forward go ahead and let
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that dry so we're now at the point to I can reinstall this back bracket
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finally uh we're going to take this bracket we're going to take our little seiling washer and we're going to put
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that on there and then we're going to put this in the bracket just like just like that
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uh and let's see if I can zoom in to make this a little B more enjoy
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able
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okay okay so here's the bracket here's the bolt when we go inside there's there
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there's a wire so I act like uh act like this is the wire coming
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holding that coming down you're going to take the bracket and you want to go around the
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cable and then put this into place this needs to go around the cable first
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before it goes in all right now we take this don't drop this screw uh it would not be
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good cuz I think this screw is oh no okay never
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mind it is magnetic all right so let's
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go going to put this in here
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okay I'm going to take the bracket back out all right we're looking
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good see what we got going on here all right next step is I'm going to
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take the door and I think for this video purpose
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I'm going to lock it into place so I can have a good camera angle
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for you guys
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all right let's change up the
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camera there we
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go all right we're going to go and get some some gasket
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maker as much as I want the flatl vanco part to seal a well we want to double
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check our make sure we can seal all the water out so we're going to use our gasket
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maker to do
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that and I'm just going and grabbing some gloves here so I can
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get this ready so once we put the gasket maker on there I'll be back over by the camera and we
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can start actually bolting everything up and tightening it down and then we'll actually reference the manual to go over
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everything and should be it it should be pretty
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straightforward I feel like it's good to do uh what not to do video versus a what to to do
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video all right so I'm at the other side of the shop over here
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so I'm just I'm cleaning out this uh gasket maker that I used
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earlier all right so this is black RTV that's
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basically what it is and I just got black RTV because
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uh it looks better than red RTV all right so we got that we got our
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bolt bracket all right let's go back and we'll change cameras go to the other
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side there we
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go
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okay so we're going to put the RTV on this back side
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here you guys can see we've already rust prevented this around the door so we're good and safe there this is what we
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really want to make sure that we have on here and we're going to put it on this
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side so I found out what happens when you uh install this on the back
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door uh this outer sheet metal this back door is really thin it's very thin and
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uh that is not good for when you're
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drilling because it makes it pretty uh weak and so what's happened is this has
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uh kind of bent in just a little bit
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um so there's a little dip so it's it's not going to seal like I don't it's not
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going to seal like it was supposed to all right let's get our bracket in
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here
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now to get this uh bolt on the outside I had to actually use a uh clamp like this
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to actually cinch it down go fix the camera lighting looks
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very strange see
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here there you
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go get my wrenches so for these bolts that they Supply you it's a
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9/16th uh
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wrench and then we're going to have one washer for the
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outside
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okay the so this is the easy part believe it or not the hard part is going
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to be when we go to um
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uh first I got to get around
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this go the hard part is the other there the smaller bolt it's going to be the
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that's going to be the challenging one to get through
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here all right now let's let this fall
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back okay so we put the RTV on
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there
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all right so now we're going to need our clamp go the rest of the
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distance and the reason I'm doing this is to get the nut on that's the only pretty much the only
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reason I mean your van might be different you might actually not have an issue
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with
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this okay we
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go
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so what I did is I just removed the ceiling washer I'm going to put it on
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the outside because there's uh the thread length is not long
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enough to put it on the inside
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so it's another interesting little
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hiccup all right now I can actually get I have enough threads now to actually pick up on
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something so we're going to put this ceiling washer on the other other
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side
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yeah this just needs to be a longer bolt there's not there's not a longer bolt in my kit for some
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reason we may come back to this bolt after we tighten everything
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down
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before we get it too tight we need to take our smaller bolt and bring it through this
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bracket okay and I'm actually going to verify
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the uh allen wrench key size first
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so it looks like it's
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3.5 for the inner door bolt for the Allen key and then we've
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got let's find out what size nut this is
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716 for the
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net
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this is going to be tough cuz we're going to uh we might
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actually um this is going to be hard not to drop
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this also be careful as you saw me run into my
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own clamp all [Music]
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right getting more technical
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now all right so without dropping the screws in the
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door see if we can get this on here okay we got the washer got her nut in
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place okay man that's always the hardest right
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[Music] there this thing is
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dangerous
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yeah if you drop something into this uh door cavity you are it is not going to be
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good just letting you guys
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know
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so I want to tighten this but I don't want to tighten it so much that it actually starts to bend this part of the
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door frame which okay this is about as much as I'm going to do
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that I can kind of see like a dip forming
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so I'm going loosen up on the other
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Bolt
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okay this is good yeah loosen up on this bolt and
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just come in with this
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one I feel good about
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that before we get too far I'm going to get some uh denatured alcohol and clean this up because I've already
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got stuff on the
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door
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all right so let's go ahead and we're going to tighten down this uh outer
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Bolt
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[Applause]
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so I'm actually going to take this nut off the backside and I'm going to put on
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some uh
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locktite I'm putting on red locti by the
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way
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man this bolt is just
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not yeah this has to be the wrong bolt in the kit this B this bolt is just not long
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enough see if I have a spare spare
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bolt yeah they don't there's no other bolt in the kit this has this has to be the
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bolt
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it's a 3/8 bolt they give you an one inch
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Bolt
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Perfect all right there we go okay so I'm going to replace it with
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a stainless steel 38-16 in and a quarter
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Bolt
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this is going to be fun trying to get an allen key on the
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inside
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so 732 Allen key is what I'm using for this Bolt
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yeah that's much better
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so now we can grab our ceiling R uh washer with our seal on it which is what
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we're supposed to use we can put that on
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there then we can take our nut and we can put that on there all
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right that's good that's really good now we are getting
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somewhere
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got to make sure I do not drop this Allen
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key
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okay we're good let's move on to the next part of this
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install
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all right we're going to come over here to pull out these uh side pieces let's
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zoom out on the camera all
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right
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so do the top and the bottom and then we'll come back in here and we'll tighten up uh these plate bolts um I
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think they want you to do that before you do all this but I'm not undoing that and I can get I can probably get a
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wrench behind here to tighten this down
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now these are going to come with washers so just make sure you grab a washer
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and go ahead and put it on
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there
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as you're tighten this up make sure you keep the rack pulled uh out towards
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you
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[Music]
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all putting those other screws away and somehow I uh I'm missing one of the screws I don't
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know where I put it it's for this little bumper pad that sits right here at this bottom so it's
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it does actually connect it to the van it's just there to uh just to have a
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little bit more support again just make sure you're
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pulling out
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away from the
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van you guys were here earlier in the live stream this top bracket was one that I had to modify just by grinding
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the edges off because it was actually I couldn't get it in alignment with the uh
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Ford Transit door and it was uh actually kind of gouging the the body
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so I think it's more of a Ford thing not a flatline vanco thing
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because had to do with the body panel the Flatline vanco bracket looked
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like normal it looked like how it's supposed to be
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all right man that is solid okay
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perfect all right besides that one little bracket over here that I need to get to um I'll have to come back to that
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later cuz oh here they are I found them good good good
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good all right let's go ahead and bring this other Hardware over to
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the build area so we've got a bracket that goes
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here uh with four bolts it's two plates um then we got
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some Hardware to actually hold the spare tire
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um yeah so that is our that's our next step I'm going to go ahead and put this little side bracket on before
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or the part gets lost in the shop Parts don't get lost and they're
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still here they're just uh they might be somewhere
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else um I think this is the reason why I what
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going to delay this video is all this little uh all the logos the dealerships
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put on here and to get in your way of working on the
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van
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I don't know the technical term for this little plate is but it's just like a little assistance
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bracket okay all right that looks good let's
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tighten that one down and then we can move to uh getting the hardware on here to actually get the um spare tire put on
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uh I see a lot more people in the Stream so I'm going to just quickly go over the kind of pain points I was going through
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when I installed this so I actually have the instructions and we're going to go
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through those at the end if you guys are interested you can stick stay till the end um but we are using the uh the PDF
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to go through and install uh I'm making this video it's not a step-by-step tutorial but I'm making it because
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there's a bunch of things that happened while I was doing this that don't normally happen so this upper bracket
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right here it was when I put it on even though the door was in
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alignment my Ford Transit van the door actually goes into the van about eighth
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of an inch more than I have another van outside uh and that cause this bracket
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to actually pinch on the inside so I had to grind it to make that pinch go away
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so it wouldn't tear up the van and then I R spray painted a matte black it looks great it works fine uh again I do don't
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think it has anything to do with Flatline van Co it's the Ford Howard this van got built on the assembly line
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down here in the bottom the bracket was not an issue real quick over here this
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was an issue on the van because uh uh the template over here I wanted to
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make sure I double checked where my hole was and I did the template did a whole
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center punch and then I went and just manually put this on and it was a little offset so I went with my bolted in
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option just to make sure that my hole that I drilled was perfect so I did that and then on the inside here there's a
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hole that you use to bolt the bracket on uh on the other side this is supposed to
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be a slotted hole from Ford it's on that door it's not on this door
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so what I had to do was drill from the inside out and then relocate this hole
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and this hole is one of those where if you mess up it's you're going to visually see it because you're going to
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open this every time so I needed to make sure it was perfect so that took quite a bit of time I did not do that on
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camera uh I was going to make it did this whole tutorial video but I decided to do this
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cuz you start making the video and then it just takes forever so it's easier for
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me just to do a live stream for you guys um I'm going go actually go see if we have any questions here you guys are
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welcome to ask questions tonight uh as we're working through this uh it does not have to be on what
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I'm working on I'm actually going to move the camera so you guys can
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see possibly a little bit better there we
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go okay let's keep going I'm going to tighten this bracket down here anyway
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that was that's a summary of all the issues that I had going on with uh installing
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this so um yeah hopefully that helped you
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out
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all right pretty good so I'm pull out the laptop and let's keep on going with the regular
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install
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method
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all right now we're getting ready to put on the apparatus that holds the spare
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tire so this big thing right here and we need to take these two
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plates out of this
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package yeah so now after all that fun stuff we are we're actually back on the normal installed path with the
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instructions these two plates are going to go behind here all right and then you're going to
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have the bolt go uh into this slot the square slot and
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then you're going to take this and put it onto
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the onto the van okay so
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this let's figure out what orientation we want here okay the circle part goes
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out the adjustment Tabs go on the
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inside all right let's go ahead and do this now I'm not doing it I'm now back
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to the instructions earlier I was not doing the instructions sometimes I
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deviate from the instructions only because not trying to be a not all but
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like some things I might just want to do a different way to get to the same point if you guys
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know what I
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mean so what I'm doing right now this was
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supposed to be done earlier but I like to adjust this rack to kind of have get I
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want it to kind of find its home so it's not binding anywhere and this I didn't want to put this on so would it would
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stay nice and light as light as possible so I can move it
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around
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I'm I'm going to jokingly say this but you might want to wash your van behind here cuz it's it's really hard to get
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back behind there when this is all said and
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done
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but if you guys are watching what I'm doing you can see it is
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possible to do this this way just be careful because these bolts these bolts
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may fall out that is highly
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likely come on stick with me we're so
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close there we go these uh drilled holes over here
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they're on the right side they go they go to the right side of the
1:07:08
van go ahead and double check the instructions okay we're doing a good
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job
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okay what size are these bolts what wrench do we
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need
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3/4
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okay it feels great all right Next Step
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for all right so the next thing we need to take is we need to put in the
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studs uh right here that come with it uh we need to use
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Loctite put them in all right shouldn't be too
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hard
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so two on the top and then one on the
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bottom and these correspond I'm sure they're kind of using this universally
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so this corresponds to the if you have a Ford Transit or uh
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whatever thread pitch you have I'm not thread pitch
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your lug nut
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orientation they're using blue I'm using red locktite
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because I can't find the blue at the moment but if I were a spare tire carrier on
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the rear of a Ford Transit going down the highway I would like to
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have blue Lo uh red
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locti okay this is really odd what what's going on
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here
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these are not they're all the same
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length but they're not bottoming out that is this one's fine this one's
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fine this one's go a little too far then I like it
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to go
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all right let's see if we got what size Allen wrench do they want for
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this
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is
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for
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okay hopefully that is good to
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go must be like a safety bar let's get our spare tire and let's let's try this thing
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out
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all
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they do provide you with these security security locks which is
1:20:12
nice oh I'm messing with the come
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on
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all in all this is not too bad this was the most critical part over here it's the part that you don't want to cheat on
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you want to make sure you get it right
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so
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for
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there you
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go at these pretty hand tight and let's uh shut the door cuz it's kind of
1:22:19
the it's the test I like to go by to see if uh something is the way it should
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be all
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right okay I feel pretty good about
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that all right let check the door opening now remember when you have something like this you cannot open the
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door all the
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way hear a little bit of
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squeak is the rubber
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here oh that's what it
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is
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okay pretty happy with that that is nice and sturdy all right this is the end of the
1:24:05
video here let's uh try to be quiet so you can hear it
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slim all right that's that is pretty
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good that is nice and solid all right I
1:24:24
approve okay that was a long video thank you guys for watching um I want to tell
1:24:31
you about two more things we're going to hop on the computer and then we will end the live stream for this evening uh you
1:24:36
get a couple more minutes to ask me a question if you guys do have a question ask it in the
1:24:45
chat first thing I want to go over is our DIY van build cheat sheet if you guys have not heard of our DIY van build
1:24:51
cheat sheet it's awesome you can use it to uh look through a list of products that I have personally personally
1:24:58
purchased on Amazon over the last three years so whatever I put my shopping cart and I bought for the shop it's on the
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list 300 250 items right now it's always growing but you can get this list
1:25:11
absolutely free it's going to help you Kickstart your van build and just make things a whole lot easier if you've
1:25:16
don't know where to start buying parts the list is great little sneak peek is
1:25:21
we've got all kinds of stuff we've got Fasteners Electrical uh HVAC stuff like the max
1:25:28
air fan installation Roofing security solar tools tools is uh
1:25:34
probably the best part about this list anytime that I am buying a tool for the
1:25:40
shop I put on the list in a short a couple months we are going to have a
1:25:45
list of going all over these tools on the blog post on the van Builder HQ
1:25:51
website so if you guys have not been to uh van Builder
1:25:56
hq.com head on over there you can also sign up for the cheat sheet there there's a link but there are bunch of
1:26:04
blog posts we've got more coming out in the future but right now we've got stuff on camper van flooring lithionics
1:26:11
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1:26:17
lot of great information and it's all you know stuff that I've gone through
1:26:22
uh we've got some videos on the YouTube channel going through van floor installation
1:26:28
install and we've got everything from all the layers base plywood uh subfloor
1:26:36
lawn sill epoxy on top and just ways to you know help you guys out so everything
1:26:42
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1:26:56
ways to kind of jump start the process but if you want to not jump this
1:27:01
jump start the process and you want to go straight to my shop my shop is
1:27:06
Odyssey custom vans this van right here in the photo is the one that we are putting the tire carrier on tonight and
1:27:13
uh if you want to do a quick walk through of the Interior we're almost finished with it and uh this video is
1:27:20
walking through the interior as it was at Adventure vanand Expo so very very
1:27:25
close to being complete we have all of the amenities and systems listed here that's in the
1:27:32
van and I know you guys were excited to see you know just an update on where we're at so I put these photos on the
1:27:38
website just so you can see you know what's happening on the inside of the van some of the components that we're using like the Tetra van floor the
1:27:44
isotherm Cruise 130 fridge uh 420 watts of solar the dedic RTX 2000 on the roof
1:27:50
how we relocate the Ford Transit antenna which is very important so it is not
1:27:57
blocked by the solar panels um I don't see that happening a lot out there nice uh really nice bamboo
1:28:04
cabinets from Flatline vanco we got the adventure wag interior install happening
1:28:10
in this band so it's the adventure wagon interior kit with a bamboo ceiling panel just
1:28:17
ties everything in looks really really good uh that's a short queen mattress so
1:28:22
queen siiz mattress RV short um Queen and very comfortable uh there is the
1:28:31
there are not exterior bump outs they're the interior ones so they allow your uh
1:28:36
to get a little bit more sleeping room um we've got 72 in of room on the
1:28:44
inside we've got the Flatline vanco pullout tray and overhead Shelf exterior light
1:28:54
um and then we finish it off with the f45s awning uh a German Shepherd is not
1:29:00
included she's going to stay in the shop but if you guys are interested in purchas purchasing this van it is
1:29:07
currently for sale if you're watching this video um if you're watching this video it also may be sold but at the
1:29:13
current moment watching this video it is for sale you can contact me at sales ay customs.com that is my direct line and
1:29:21
it's the easiest way to contact me is to click here to schedule a call because this will pop up the appointment right
1:29:28
on my calendar so you'll go through here click on a date and then find a time
1:29:33
that works best for you click submit it pops up on my calendar we can have a phone call about the current vans for
1:29:39
sale on our website if you are looking to get a personal custom van build done
1:29:45
by myself read this left tab it talks about how to uh prepare for a
1:29:51
consultation with me uh so just just a little bit of instructions but something to get prepped for the call and then all
1:29:58
you do do the same thing find a time schedule it book it with me and that's it um happy to uh build your custom van
1:30:08
um there's all kinds of things that we can do as you guys see in the shop some Vans have Tire carriers some Vans don't
1:30:14
some have more solar some have less it's really about your goals and what you want to do when you're out doing an
1:30:20
adventure or on the road and uh yeah we can pretty much do um those things in the shop so excited to chat with you
1:30:28
whether you are looking to buy the van or you're ready to uh get a custom build done yourself uh once again if you guys are
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1:30:46
get one and just want to see an option of one being installed this would be a perfect video to shoot their way away um
1:30:52
other than that put questions in the comments uh I'll answer those when I get a chance to get to them also it's really
1:30:58
good to uh find out content for or uh questions to be answered in future
1:31:04
videos so I always look through the comments to see if you guys have some really good questions we'll put that into a live stream other than that I'm
1:31:11
wanted to sign up for the night again hope you guys enjoyed this video uh stay tuned to the next live stream uh where I
1:31:18
will see all you guys right back here in the uh Odyssey custom vans
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