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Upholstering front columns of Ford Transit & Adding Lagun Mount with Rivnuts
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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream we are working on the Ford Transit and we're moving from the front
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of the van and started to make our way to the back of the van so what we're going to be working on today is the we
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finished up the uh entertainment system in the middle so we got our big screen
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connected we've got our reversing camera connected to the parking you know
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shifter stuff and then we got the wolf box um which is the dash cam it's
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connected to the rear camera we've got a power supply to it up on the headliner we've actually uh reinstalled the the
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Ford factory shelf and then we went up and we've taken the two foam pieces and we're going to start to measure them and
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a pster uh in today's stream we're moving to the left and the right hand column so
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the left side you see all the holes in it on the driver's side and then on the passenger side where I got a little bit
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of fabric those are the two things we're going to upholster today um and we need
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to do that before we put the floor in So that we have a nice transition uh over in
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the left hand side um so we're going to be doing that and then we're going to uh
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finish up with installing these um Lagoon brackets
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from far out ride so we've got a
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standard Lagoon bracket that you can kind of get off of Amazon or from Lagoon itself this is a pretty standard chunky
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bit it's on most RVs and we're going to be upgrading it to this really nice low profile system
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here that for out ride um put together so this is not sponsored but I just
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wanted to show you a cool product so if you go to 4 out ride.com uh I really
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like this uh website um these guys have put a lot of work and effort into getting a lot of
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great information for you um on the whole van life uh building out your van
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and so their website has just a I mean a ton of information um all kinds of stuff you
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can learn about installs tires Wheels electrical so over the past couple years
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I've learned a lot from their website and um they have actually some products
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believe it or not and what we're going to look at today is this which is this
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bracket and It Bolts into the side of the Ford Transit um they have two
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options so the typical install is going to be on the passenger side and so I'll hop
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in the van I'll show you what I'm talking about
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so in a Ford Transit uh there's some Factory nut inserts right here so you
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got one two three and four and these two are typically for the Lagoon Mount so
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you'll take the bracket and you'll place it right here and then it a kit will
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usually come with these screws and then you bolt it in and all good to go um but
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then what we're going to be doing is over here on the right side there's two holes um we're going to
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be using our rivnut gun um which you can
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find the link on the DIY van build cheat sheet link is in the description below the cheat sheet is completely free and
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it's a list of the last three years of all of my Amazon purchases for the shop so this tool right here from Astro
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pneumatics is on that and it makes putting in these nut inserts uh super
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easy so we're going to do that and the these two will be used to mount this
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plate here and then we'll have Lagoon Mount uh by the driver's seat so now with John
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and Susan got their own table um but the reason we're at this point
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right now is I need to upholster this so obviously the upholstery is going to
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cover the holes so we need to identify where the holes are before we upholster
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we need to take our foil tape and we need to cover up all these holes in here and then uh we're going to mask
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everything off with some plastic uh we'll upholster this uh We've measured our piece of upholstery so we need um 6
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feet high and 16 in wide and the reason
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is up here we need to come out from this foam piece and
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uh this foam piece will be wrapped differently from this fabric so this
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fabric will match this wall here and this panel down here this will be the
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four-way stretch fabric um and then let's see yes so we're doing
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this before we put the final floor in So that that upholstery can go down below the floor and when we put the wood up
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against the floor and then we put the lawn seal uh we'll have a really nice clean transition because this area it's
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hard to do a transition over here unless you have some type of uh really clean
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Edge um now some people don't care they'll you know just bump it up kind of
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close but I like to put a little bit extra effort in try to make it as neat as possible because we don't really have
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any you know floored trim or anything like that um covering that up so we need to make sure that's nice and neat
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plus we can move our wires out of the way to give us ACC access to really get
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this upholstered uh nice and tight then we'll put all of our panels back on
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um then we'll have our Lagoon Mount that we can put in and we can kind of move on
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um so we're doing that and then let's see if we have
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time I might show you guys how to start doing uh upholstering this but really
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these columns and uh The Cutting of the fabric is pretty much what I wanted to show you in
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this live stream but yeah we'll have this Marathon Fabric and we'll have this wrapped
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around here and we don't need much but um for
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some reason I cut this piece and I I didn't realize I need to go up higher
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because that foam uh the foam and the the Ford Transit it's important because this is
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where the side curtain airbag comes down so that foam needs to be something that can break away from this area as the
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curtain comes down um same as with uh
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this channel right here so this channel right here is uh it's kind of this is
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kind of like a a breakaway Zone if you can think about it so if you're going to do any type of cables or wires uh as you
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can see I have here we need you need to go up above the airbag because airbag if
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it ever goes off is going to come straight down and then this foam needs to be able to come blow out or you know
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do what it is uh do what it needs to do so it you kind of need just to kind of
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force fit it in there um maybe with some velcro or something like that on the back but uh you know you don't want to
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build any type of structure around that airbag um just for safety
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reasons okay so we got that too we got the hardware um yeah we ordered our part for
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underneath the Ford Dash so that's going to help us get to where
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we need to be um let me see if I can actually pull up
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I'm going try to pull up that part so it is a
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three it's like a three terminal mini fuse
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tap
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okay this is the really weird thing that I had to uh uh
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find um that I didn't really know existed um so what we did is we had a fuse
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tap and this is what came with the wolf
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box so we've moved on from the Lagoon table now we're talking about the wolfbox uh dash cam so this device
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allows you to tap into an existing fuse to either get a 12volt signal or a ignition signal to
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operate things in the van so it can be a dash cam you know stereo um anything
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that you want on when the ignition is on and off so it's not you
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know uh depleting the battery when the engine's off so there's two here for a
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mini fuse but Ford um gets a little Fancy with their
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circuitry and you have to find this one right here that is a uh it's a micro 3
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inline fuse circuit tap um and it looks like this so instead
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of two it actually has three [Music]
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um it actually has three uh what am I trying to
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say three uh pins and then there's two spots for fuses so one would be the fuse
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rating that you're trying to pull from the circuit and the second would be the original fuse to maintain the original
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circuit that you are pulling from all right so that weird thing um
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it's not expensive it's just a the three pin is just kind of an odd thing to
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purchase um or fine actually as much as cars I've done in the last I don't know
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ever since I've been working on cars um since high school I've never seen this
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micro three pin wire tap or a micro 3 pin fuse for that matter so I've ordered
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that as soon as it comes in on Friday we can really finish the front of the van we can move on from it um because I
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really want to get to the main part of the van uh sometimes electrical takes
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much longer than you think um you think you're putting in simple devices and and it actually ends up uh taking you know
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twice as long um but what you'll try to do is you'll tend to want to take shortcuts
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and you don't take shortcuts you wire it appropriately um I could have hacked
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something to get this to work but I wanted to make sure that it's uh good for a very long time so waiting to get
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this fuse tap that's appropriate for it in instead of splicing a wire or something like that um
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it's the best way to do it all right now we're going to hop on over and we're
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going to move the big camera and we're going to go ahead and cut
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our um make sure I'm not unplugging the live stream rig
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here there we go so we get this out of the
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way and check the focus and we will keep on
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going okay all right so we've already gone
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through our role in the shop that we were using for uh some of the material that we've
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been upholstering we're breaking into our bigger
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roll so if you've never seen this fabric before uh it's very popular it's called
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heather gray and it's made by a company uh called marathon and I get it from
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company called perfect fit so perfect fit perfect fit.com is
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who I get this
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from but we can't use the little bit of fabric I have left left um
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because this is where you get into having to use you have to roll it out to get the length because this is only so
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many feet
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wide so when you're working on your van consider if you need things
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wider then you know like a instead of a
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horizontal run if you need a longer run you're going to need to roll the fabric
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out
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trying to open this up without cutting the fabric is nice and fun okay so got
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[Applause] that
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[Applause]
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okay so we need to come out to six feet and go ahead and cut
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that and feel free to ask any questions van related in the chat
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um I'm going to be watching the chat throughout the live stream so if you guys have
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any questions just let me
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know and I used a drywall Square to cut this
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you guys are
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wondering and when you're cutting uh you can pay attention to kind of how the the
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weaves are in
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this that'll give you your uh cuz sometimes it might be tilted
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a little bit it shouldn't but sometimes it it
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is
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and pretty soon uh probably sometime next week uh we're going to spend a lot of time on this table
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upholstering uh we got a lot of stuff to
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upholster
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see so we got 16 now there's an edge on these this
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Edge is about an inch and a half and so we don't want to measure from this we
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want to measure an inch and a half in so if we need 16 we really need to go
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to 17 and A2 and go to 17 and A2 and then
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uh make our cut but then if you get to the middle
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you can just cut it at your
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16 yeah there just like this Edge that uh you don't want to
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use it doesn't have that special backing that uh helps the adhesive not to go
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through it all the way so you just want to be mindful of
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that it should be pretty easy to notice because it just it doesn't it's a part of the fabric that doesn't look
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good
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now obviously this is not perfect I've oversized this so I can make sure that I have enough when I'm working around
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stuff in the
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van
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for
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come
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on
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okay so now we got our two panels our driver and passenger
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side
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go ahead and bring this into the
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van
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okay so this part right here this is
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our just a paint in the butt
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piece we got to take care of it or this part
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of the van is going to look really weird won't look nice
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so okay so now just going
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to this laid into
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place
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this isn't perfect I'm just getting this
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started and if you have a magnet it's going to help you out with
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uh getting this to to work right with you now the bottom is going to be really
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easy the top is going to be very challenging because we have a surface where the folds here and you may not see
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this on camera I'll move it in a second but these folds are kind of converging in on each other and so we may have
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to uh just really take our time to get that
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right uh so now what I'm going to do I'm going to take a permanent marker and I need to mark
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on the inside here uh where our uh rivets are supposed to
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go that way I don't lose uh where to cut the hole out so
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it's just a visual indicator so anything in here that should be a visual indicator just go ahead and start
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marking with your marker um so that you don't upulse over it and
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then you're left figuring out you know what you're going to do about it uh when you're in the midst
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of uh upholster in
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it and then I've also got arrows telling me where I need to make sure I cut out
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the material for the uh these side panels so this panel is going to go like
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that and I just need to cut it
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out yeah but definitely take your time on this
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part yeah and with this hanging I'm probably going to start at the bottom and work my way up that way uh I got
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more forgiveness at the top than I do in the bottom here because this bottom needs to be straight and go straight
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up um yes so that's what I'm going to do
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here and then I have to keep in mind that I'm going to need to
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actually have my scissors ready and razor so I can cut and move things
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around um okay so everything looks good so far for our
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start so I'm going to get the plastic and get going
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here so I'm going to do a couple pieces of plastic I just have one that I've been kind of reusing and this one is
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going to be uh just for the bottom area I can tuck around all the
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sides and then we'll have a panel that goes uh a higher panel and that's going
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to allow me to uh cover up the the dash so if
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anything blows out that adhesive
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then it's not going to get onto
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anything
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definitely don't want to get on the seat Bel that would suck
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the seat belt's a little bit of a challenging area because you got to you don't want to get on the seat Bel
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but you need to get adhesive right here on this uh
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post and then we're also going to have to take this off so
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just pull that at my phone so I can make sure you guys can see what I'm talking
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about oh yeah that camera angle looks
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good so just take this in the middle and just pull uh it's good to have gloves on because
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Ford has this tar stuff that just stinks to get on
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your hands um so we're just going to pull it off
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and leave it right like that so yeah this stuff is is
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nasty um if we get anything on stuff we don't want to uh we can just use
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denatured alcohol but if you've never done this before
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I suggest that you tape off
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everything and one thing I'm making sure that I tape off is the rubber mat
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cuz we need to treat our rubber mat on the bottom of the van as almost like a a piece of carpet
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because that is uh uh we won't be hiding that that'll be
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exposed as the front
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floor
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okay that's about all we need there the next what we're going to do is
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just we'll have a big uh screen or just piece of
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plastic
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for
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for
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for
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yeah typically you would not want to upholster in the
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van but for obvious reasons this is uh where we have to be upholstering
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this we're only coming in about an inch and a half
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so we've got we definitely have enough you know wiggle room for
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um so that we're actually not having to spray all the way in in
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here
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I'm used to this handle being right here at the door and I've about falling falling out of this van ever since I
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took this handle out to uh get ready to uphols through this
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so hopefully I don't fall out of the van this
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time all right that line is right there so what I
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did here I'll show you in one second let me get this
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tape um I traced I had to trace a line
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out
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for
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uh sometimes if you need some extra attention just throw a tool in there it'll help keep
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everything held down so you don't accidentally move it
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all right let's see how we're doing make sure there's no
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openings sometimes this can blow up so just you know from the pressure the can
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so just tape it down okay so we got everything taped
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up um if you have any slack in the plast you have any slack in the plastic
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what you'll need to do is um just come up here tighten it
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up put a piece of tape on it just like
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that all
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right so let's go ahead and move to the next part we're going to get our spray
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in and start working from the bottom and coming up to the
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top
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we also need to get a pair of gloves that's going to help us out with making
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sure this doesn't get all over our
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hands
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all right let me double check the camera angle here because we're going to work on the left side
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first see we're zoomed all the way out and looks like we're GNA cap capture
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everything so that magnet up top really helps with the
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uh uh keeping everything nice and Center as we do this first first piece uh I do
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need to go back and get
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my scissors and
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razor
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okay
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for
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so before I get ahead of myself I actually need to get this foil tape on
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here couple things that F tape does is it uh helps
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me not spray all the adhesive down into here which doesn't really matter for this application
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but um if you can imagine that's just a place for cold air to come in and out
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and although it's little you know if you cover up 51 in holes just think about how much uh air
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you've stopped the movement of plus moisture as
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well and if you forget where these holes are you can see
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they're right there now this can be mounted this way or this way but these
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two holes we need to make sure that we keep uh open and the rest of them we
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can close
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up
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we don't want to close up our our inside ones for our plastic panels
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obviously
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I would move the carpet so you guys could the upholstery so you could see it but I've already got I've already got
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the magnet where I wanted so we'll have to see it in a
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minute
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okay we got one more small hole and we can get to
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work all right so if you can see we've got
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all these holes taped off this bottom one here that you see
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it's already taped off so um and then what I've done is I've taken a permanent
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marker and I've just I've outlined where I need to make sure that I actually do
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have adhesive the rest I can cut off the excess same as here for this panel I'm
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coming in about 2 in and then the top this black line is showing me um that's
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I need to make sure I'm at least you know an inch in so that when I pulser the foam piece and it seats up against
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it there won't be a gap so again I don't need this much material but you can
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always cut Material
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off and depending on what van you have you know this is a brand new van so there's really no reason to I've already
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wiped this down and blew it off so this it's it's
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clean um but we're going to start from the bottom and we're going to start in the this
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uh get this mid this Notch going to get this Notch area in
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first just like that so it looks like we're going to start right here where my hand is and then kind of make our
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way down like that and then we'll kind of work our way uh
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outside I'm laying a nice inner uh
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spray then I'm going to come and kind of fan
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out to my you know one inch inch and a
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half
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the good thing about this is um this is going to stick extremely
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well because it's a metal surface now if
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you'd watch other streams where I do the upholstery it can be a challenge because
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the wood if you don't seal it can absorb a lot of
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the uh a lot of the uh what am I'm trying to
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say adhesive and it makes it more of a challenge to
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actually uh get it
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installed
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so we just need to wait uh a
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minute let this off
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gas
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okay I'm let going to do one light
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spray be my last time spraying
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this
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okay so I actually need to grab so while that's setting up I need
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to grab my uh upholstery tool so I can get it in those
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corners
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this is actually not an upholstery tool this is a
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panel panel tool like
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that just counting waiting
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game all right we'll do one
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more really take our time
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to
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for
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all right let's see see how we're looking
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here so this is good this actually needs to dry just a little bit
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more okay so the Metal's perfect we got a really perfect coat on the
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metal so we just need this to tack
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up that's actually pretty good okay now if you really mess up
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technically you can pull this back um our pain in the butt is going to be
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this uh plastic and I don't want to take it off CU I still need to spray the
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top but we're making sure that our line up here this is the furthest spot our
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fabric needs to go out and then down here at the bottom we've got it nice and lined up so that when we come in here
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to uh actually seat this in here
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here we going to it's going to be exactly what we
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want okay we're just placing nice and easy
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we're not doing a hard press CU in case we need to
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adjust we get one more shot at
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adjusting
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so this side went in a little bit more than I thought it would because I I now know I didn't want to mess that part up
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so we actually need to get a little bit more adhesive
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on our piece right here
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okay so just need to let that hang out here for a
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second so while that's hanging out we know there's our inside good so we can
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start getting that push
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down just need to hold this out for a
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minute
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okay right that's
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good
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that
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now
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so down here uh I need to come out another couple inches um when I measure
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this for the 16 I took in account this and this Bend here but this part came out a little more than I expected but
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what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how to make a triangle flap piece here um that's right on that edge
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and it'll look like a nice clean transition so if you've gotten to an area to where you haven't put enough
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material um you can uh make it
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work so all right now we're going to move our magnet out of the way and we're going to
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start getting this section here nice and
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tacky this magnet is super strong uh let's see that'll hold
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there so our next part is going to be
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this so that actually needs to go back
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if you see your nozzle start coming up go ahead and wipe that off because it's going to mess you up later all right so now we're just going
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to through here
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okay so now we're going to go back and get us a square to cut out here so we
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can um repair that
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edge
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so what we're going to do is we're we got to really good amount of adhesive on here so we're going to take
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this and that will be we will seam that right there and then uh the both of
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these will kind of become one and then we'll fold it we'll fold it on
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over so let me cut this excess off
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here so that'll get me around the corner and then the trick is to make a
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repair like that this Edge is where you need to get the most of your uh adhesive
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sprayed onto so we definitely get at the
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bottom um we're going to do a couple passes
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here
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okay so we'll let this air
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off
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make sure you definitely get some of that Notch um yeah I'm going to fix the
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bottom and then I'll move the camera we can finish the
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top
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so while that's uh off gassing I'm going to go ahead and start to roll this corner
1:13:14
over and I'm just trim it a little by little CU I need to find out
1:13:19
where I can actually make that fold
1:14:24
okay so this piece is now now ready looks
1:14:33
good actually we're going to hit it one more
1:14:44
time really need to make sure that that's got adhesive on it so in the meantime we're going to go
1:14:51
and just get this now we want to give a tug while we're pushing it
1:15:22
down
1:15:49
all right this piece is ready to go
1:15:55
yeah you guys can see that pretty good we're going to put this down here
1:16:01
and we're going to focus on our seam Edge only cuz that is what we want
1:16:08
to visually make sure we do
1:16:22
correctly and then we just want to follow it
1:16:30
up just like
1:16:52
that
1:16:57
okay and see that's perfect that is
1:17:04
perfect all right got our bottom done let me move the top I mean the bot good
1:17:10
Lord move the camera up and we'll finish this next part is going
1:17:16
to be uh pretty
1:17:22
tricky
1:17:50
and once you got enough glue on your gloves you're going to just want to make sure you change your
1:17:58
gloves cuz you're going to get it on the fabric then it's just not going to be
1:18:03
it's not going to be pro pro
1:18:11
level we only do pro level
1:18:20
here all right
1:18:26
now the tricky part let's
1:18:31
get so the reason this is hard is because we have material converging it's it's
1:18:37
coming together so we want to really take our
1:18:43
time and uh really get this uh the deeper
1:18:49
part is what we're going to do first
1:19:06
okay and I've I feel the tackiness gone away so I completely made this up it might
1:19:14
not be true but what I'm doing is what I call kind of
1:19:21
reactivating the adhesive so it's just a light spray on
1:19:28
the fabric it just kind of I know I just
1:19:34
made it up I think it wakes it up there you
1:19:41
go we have any any professional pulsers out there let me
1:19:46
know if that's a I made that up or if that's actually like a thing
1:19:53
okay so looks like ah no it's actually holding pretty
1:20:01
good so this is very resilient fabric so
1:20:07
I'm going to be pretty aggressive with it in this
1:20:13
uh trying to get this middle
1:20:18
part the way I want it to be
1:20:31
I can already see places that I need to stretch
1:20:51
this
1:21:21
for
1:21:30
so I'm keeping tension on this middle part kind of giving me
1:21:36
a kind of helping it roll in to place but I got to be careful that I'm
1:21:43
not getting too comfortable and I'm keeping this
1:21:51
taunt cuz if you too comfortable it's going to make this really terrible
1:21:58
crease and then everybody's going to see the crease and I don't want to see the
1:22:09
crease so to get rid of the crease just keep it tight all right now this part
1:22:17
is I don't have to worry about this because this is behind the panel but
1:22:24
but uh just kind
1:22:30
of getting it as best I can it's always good to practice makes perfect
1:22:37
so way if I get into a scenario like this again I'll actually be able
1:22:45
to knock it
1:22:51
out
1:22:57
so right here is where my panel comes in this panel covers up all of this so this
1:23:04
is but it's nice to have this to pull to make sure you get this uh uh make this look right and then
1:23:13
we're always kind of doing like a center line thing so like from the center out and then like from here this is this Arc
1:23:20
so this is my center and so so I'm just going to pull it like
1:23:25
that when it does this like rolling action it's actually it's a really good thing
1:23:33
because it helps it Go and stay where it needs to
1:23:44
stay be careful all this sheet metal
1:23:49
shards now one thing you will have to do is you will have to take a razor and get
1:23:56
these ripples out or because it's going to hold your it's going to make your panel
1:24:03
lumpy um so
1:24:21
yeah
1:24:29
okay all right so that's our corner so let's go ahead and get this cleaned up
1:24:37
here so get this away from our so now's the now's the clean up part
1:24:44
this is where this is the satisfying
1:24:51
part
1:24:57
I'll do this up here since you guys can it's where you can see me at the current
1:25:21
moment
1:25:49
the way I'm cutting this is I'm pulling it back off from the van so we don't cut into the van with the
1:25:57
razor so it might look I'm like I'm cutting into the van but I'm I'm pulling it
1:26:12
back all right remember this is our this is where our seam is this is all
1:26:19
covered looks good so let's go to wide angle
1:26:27
shot I might have to stop this stream a little early cuz I'm kind of
1:26:47
hungry okay all right
1:27:04
okay we're not spraying over here anymore so let's get this plastic off of
1:27:11
here before most of it becomes part of our
1:27:21
upholstery
1:27:31
so this part here I'm going to keep it pretty
1:27:37
loose because I want to hide it
1:27:42
uh around this uh airbag
1:27:51
area
1:28:02
whatever you do don't get near the
1:28:10
airbag I mean you're going to be near it but don't don't scratch
1:28:18
it and all I'm doing here is I'm just cutting reliefs into the material the
1:28:34
fabric I'm going leave this little wing here because I want it to
1:28:39
conceal this blue part of the airbag is I kind of saw this from the foam
1:28:50
piece a little bit more more of relief there you
1:29:09
go so that's going to go up underneath the airbag and then this little flap is
1:29:15
just going to Loosely go here and it's going to hide this uh there's a little
1:29:20
reveal right here
1:29:33
so then right
1:29:50
here
1:29:56
again I'm pulling the fabric out I'm not
1:30:05
cutting the
1:30:20
van
1:30:38
I'm just making sure that when I get to these uh Parts where the snaps come in that I give it enough room to grab onto the snap and not keep
1:30:47
it from the body panel actually snapping in
1:31:24
be very careful around the seat belt don't cut the seat
1:31:40
belt then we just come back in and if there's any type of stickiness left there shouldn't be
1:31:46
too much but we just need to rub that in and then that's going to
1:31:53
pretty much do it for this side that was not not too
1:32:01
bad so down here at the bottom let's finish up this
1:32:09
piece um if you need to get your blade sharpened you may already know this but just get it to the next line and then
1:32:16
cover it with your hand push down and it's going to give you a new Cutting
1:32:50
Edge
1:33:02
all right that looks excellent
1:33:16
um this flap so need to get to these two screw
1:33:22
holes
1:33:50
here
1:34:02
all right we'll actually be putting a strip of upholstery here um
1:34:08
so but yeah that that's this corner so however long that took it's pretty much
1:34:14
how long the other side is going to take um I might do that one off camera just because I'm going to grab some food real
1:34:20
quick but yeah if you guys have any questionss we'll be doing a live stream later today
1:34:26
um make sure you guys don't forget to check out the DIY van build cheat sheet uh it's completely free it's all my
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Amazon purchases over the last three years for the shop so I think it's really helpful for you guys if you are building the van and you need to find
1:34:38
some tools um you know what pause that
1:34:44
pause I'm going to put these rib nuts in here that's
1:34:50
a I forgot I will do that really quick for
1:34:56
you guys after that we will but this right here this
1:35:02
piece fits fits on the drill oh yeah don't use a drill with glovs on super dangerous but this fits on the
1:35:10
end of a drill these Riv nuts or these little nut inserts that are threaded so
1:35:18
they're like a rivet but they're uh they have a threaded part on the inside and so what you're going to do is you're
1:35:24
going to put this in the drill chuck it up use a regular drill do not use an
1:35:33
impact impact drill or a hammer drill um because you really need you
1:35:40
need the feedback of a like a positive uh what am I trying to
1:35:50
say all right they got fancy here this is
1:35:56
the wrong thread
1:36:03
pitch okay I thought they used the correct
1:36:11
rage so this gun I'm have to change it out right now but this gun uses uh
1:36:17
different tips so I need to change the tip out because the 58-1 16 that I normally use this is
1:36:25
not 5/81
1:36:30
16 it's something different so this
1:36:36
is all right this is what are they
1:36:43
using M8 they're using
1:36:49
metric that's okay that makes
1:36:57
sense all right guys don't leave me yet I'm going show you how to do this real
1:37:15
quick it's very easy to change the tips on these so they give
1:37:21
you a set it's got like 10 or 12 different settings okay so the first thing we're
1:37:27
going to do is we're going to take our razor and
1:37:33
we got our line so we got a line here and a line here Zoom the camera in real
1:37:42
quick you guys
1:37:50
some okay give me a second let
1:37:56
me get the camera straightened
1:38:10
up
1:38:20
perfect
1:38:29
okay we're going to take a razor let's open up our holes so right here we see we
1:38:35
have our permanent marker right here with our hole so we can go through here and then we can find where that
1:38:43
indents and then we're just going to cut an X and then we're going to come down here
1:38:49
to this one find out where it indents same thing just cut out a little
1:38:55
X you may need to cut out a little bit more because this Marathon fabric is
1:39:01
extremely durable resilient has Teflon fibers in it actually
1:39:07
so or so I'm told okay and then we got this
1:39:12
piece so we've screwed this on so this is what it looks like by itself we
1:39:19
screwed it on here then we've taken our drill and we've unscrewed it where it kind of pops and then we're
1:39:26
going to just drill it okay right where it catches the
1:39:32
screw now we're going to hold this and then we're going to set our drill
1:39:38
um we're going to lock the drill so we don't have a clutch action and we really need to feel we need to feel this
1:39:45
mushroom uh on the inside so so first let's just put it in
1:39:56
here and it's going to be extremely tight for we might actually have to
1:40:01
cut kind of round the fabric out just a little
1:40:10
bit okay so there we go now we're going to come in and hold
1:40:15
it okay you see where it went high and then low right when it went low we want to stop
1:40:22
because that is we've mushroomed it and then we want to hit reverse and then just
1:40:32
gently unscrew and come back out if you go in too hard you end up
1:40:39
uh warping the threads on the inside and it's going to be you'll waste the whole
1:40:46
insert and then if you come out um too fast it's going to
1:40:51
uh it might catch or uh mess this drill thing up so take a
1:41:00
test piece like the piece of metal that a piece of sheet metal that you um cut out the top of your van for like a Max
1:41:07
fan drill a bunch of holes in it play around with it first uh before you do
1:41:12
something like this to where uh there's really no going back um if you can imagine so just
1:41:19
listen so see how it just stops and I'm barely pulling the
1:41:25
trigger um so
1:41:31
that's that's it mushrooming in mushrooming in place um okay so that one's good and
1:41:39
that one's good so now we can just take our our plate and there's a different
1:41:46
set of bolts for this one because uh um it's a different
1:41:57
size uh we're just going to put it in the lower position for right now I'm going to have to take this back off but
1:42:02
I'm just going to put it on here for you
1:42:08
guys but you can
1:42:19
see
1:42:32
okay now we're just we just hand tightened it that's all we did and this is already very
1:42:39
strong so that's why you need to get this all upholstered get the rib nuts
1:42:46
get this all done before the panels go it's everything in the van is about layers
1:42:51
and uh this is just one of them so now we'll be able to take
1:42:58
our uh side piece over here for the bottom
1:43:03
we can move it back into place just going to do this temporarily
1:43:09
so you guys can
1:43:17
see but as soon as you start getting further in the
1:43:25
van you know all this is going to come together it's going to all start to come
1:43:31
together and it's going to look very clean and very
1:43:47
professional all right guys that's it make sure sure you guys are subscribe like this video If you enjoyed it share
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1:44:01
this afternoon's live stream when we clean this up we kind of move from the back um I want to get this ecoflow cable
1:44:08
put in and I want to get this first section of the floor glued in place um
1:44:13
so that's pretty much our next step so look out for that get that notification
1:44:19
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