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Van Weight - How to know what load is safe for your Camper Van Build Out?
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May 2, 2025
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thank you all right guys welcome to the live stream tonight we're gonna be talking
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about van weight and keeping it safe so let me pull up a little slide here to get us on track
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so I've got a couple slides prepared tonight um trying to keep it organized it's a
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lot of stuff to talk about but everything's related so that's why I wanted to kind of keep it all together
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so I'm just going to go through this and then we'll just start picking it apart and as usual put all your comments
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questions in the chat it's okay if it has nothing to do with Van weight if it's van related we're going to answer
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it during the live stream tonight but yeah van wait something that uh I
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think gets missed sometimes you get really excited you buy all the stuff for
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your van and you just start putting stuff on top of stuff you're gonna get your uh you know your bumpers you're gonna
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get your rear tire carrier because you upgraded the tire sizes um you know you wanted to put in a bed
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system nice fridge uh water tank great water tank
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um and then you got up to your roof rack you got your roof rack on you have solar panels vent fans and heck you might even
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have a rooftop air conditioner unit and so all of that significantly changes
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the Dynamics of the vehicle and that has to do with steering
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response acceleration um if you guys are car guys or girls out there you know what I'm talking about
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but you if you're into or you're new to Van
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life or building a camper van these things might not be top of mind so
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this is what I'm going to do is walk you through things that are actually real extremely important
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um for your safety as far as getting on the road and um making sure
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nothing happens or at least preventing it as much as possible
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so what we're going to talk about uh is a lot of technical words you may not even know that they existed
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and one is uh what is my slideshow doing
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hold on oh okay that's why there we go
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so this over here I need to get a pointer to use you guys
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see my mouse so this picture over here is the inside there's a sticker on the inside of your
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vehicle it doesn't have to be a van it can be any vehicle that you're driving
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and this sticker has a ton of information you just may not even have
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known about at the top of it so what we're looking at is the sticker
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on the inside of the driver's side door on the van behind me it's a Ford Transit 350.
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High roof 148 and the first thing at the top is your
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GVWR or your gross vehicle weight rating now that is the maximum weight
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of the vehicle you cannot exceed that uh with either
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occupants cargo and then we'll talk about how the trailer hitch
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plays into that as well but that's your kind of no-go number you
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don't want to be over that and I've heard a lot of um
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I've heard a lot of I've seen articles I've also seen YouTube videos of
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these motorhomes that are you know when somebody buys a motorhome
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the manufacturer has gotten so close to that number on however they've upfitted the van or
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RV so I'm talking about bigger RVs and to where you only have like 300
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pounds to work with um I've heard stories that that kind of that crazy so technically the the
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vehicle is under the max manufacturer uh gross vehicle weight rating but it's so
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close now that so that is up here in this top
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right hand corner you guys can see where my mouse is moving
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the next line down is going to be your g a w r so that's going to be your gross
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axle weight rating and so what that is is that's the amount the maximum weight per axle
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uh if you're ever at a truck stop you may have seen these things called CAT scales
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and so this is how let's see cat
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scales there we go cat scale
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so you may have seen these um at a truck stop
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and they they look like this uh they're just they look like three big concrete slabs but they're actual scales
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so they actually have their electronic scales and they weigh trucks so
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the reason that trucks have to be weighed is it has to do with their uh
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correct me if I'm wrong but it has to do with the like the road tax so like the amount of weight to wear type of thing
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so you have to make sure that um you're weighing your truck
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you know every time so that if you get checked that it's not over what you're you're saying it is and that it's that
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it's safe um I'm not a trucker but that's that's just what I've uh educated myself on
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anyway um so you'll see these scales and what they have is they have three sections so they get the front section
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the middle and the rear so you're going to have the front axle so it'll be like the steering axle of the semi truck
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the middle is going to be your drive axle so that's where like the dually wheels are and then the rear one would
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be your trailer and you can kind of see maybe one of these pictures shows it but see how there's kind of like three
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stages so obviously you guys are not driving a
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semi truck but the reason then I bring this up is because you can get a piece of paper right here
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and you can weigh your van before you do your build out you can get a baseline so
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that as you build it you're not going over that number and so what I did uh and we'll just use
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Thomas Advantage for example because I have his forms down here at the bottom
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so we're going to go over these in just a second but this um
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that gross axle weight front axle would be like your steering axle
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and then your rear axle which would be where your uh your wheels are driven on
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your van now I know technically if you have all-wheel drive they're all going but
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the front on this Ford Transit behind me is 4 630 pounds the rear is
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5750 pounds so right here front and rear
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so what you can do is reference the sticker and then before you get your build started where you got like a bear van
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um go ahead and one second yep
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so go ahead come on let me get out of here
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so what you'll do is put those numbers down so what we've done is put them in here in our little PowerPoint
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and let me move this over
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okay so we're gonna let's check out Thomas's van
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so we know what the manufacturer's spec is for the van we checked our sticker so what we do is we take the van empty
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and this first let's see can you guys see that
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so this first one right here I don't think I'll make this bigger
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so let's move move this one
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down there okay so we got two measurements here
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that I want to show you all right you guys already know this is
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CAT Scale so I can cover that up
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all right so when you go into for example this was the Flying J like a pilot uh you can pretty much go to any truck
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stop they're gonna they're pretty much gonna have a cat skill they're not everywhere but I mean there's a lot of
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them so what you're going to do is you're going to drive up
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to the scale there's a little call box right here on the post you're going to
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touch the call box and uh the guy girl on the intercom is
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going to say um you know what's your number something like that and well you don't have one because you know you're not a trucker so
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you just tell them uh first to wait so first weight they just put it in the
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computer as like a new a new vehicle you can just say what's the name you just say van
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or you can say your name it doesn't matter and then what they'll do is they'll they'll weigh you tell you to come in
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when you come in I forgot how much this cost oh here it's 12 bucks 12.15 50
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cents but you'll come in and they'll print this out and you get
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to see some pretty cool information it's simple but it's very powerful
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so what you're going to find is your first axle
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okay you want to make sure that your van is split so you want the first actual
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over over the yellow line and you want your rear axle on the rear or the middle
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concrete pad to make sure you get both measurements or ways
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so before we started doing working on Thomas's van we had 3620 pounds on his
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front axle and then 2 940 pounds on his rear axle
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and he has a 2020 uh
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350 148 inch mid roof Ford Transit all-wheel drive
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and it has the twin turbo V6 so his gross weight
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so those numbers combined is 6560 pounds
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so we're about 3 000 pounds we got 3 000 pounds of wiggle room
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roughly so what we do is we build his van out
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and we have a couple more things we're adding to his van but this next slide is going to show you
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uh the next way of his van so we took one in March 26 and then we
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took one uh towards the end that was uh 7 14 22.
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and so so before he had a 3620 pound front axle
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so now he has a 740 pound front axle and so we installed a CA tuned front
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bumper with a worn winch on the front um the Baja design lights really they're
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not that heavy but that bumper was
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about 120 pounds uh worth of stuff
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and then that that also includes because we did a roof wreck and stuff like that but the majority of the front axle uh is that
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change and then if you look at the rear we went from
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2940 pounds on the rear axle to 3760 pounds
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so I guess I could have done the math before I did this live
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so let's just do yeah three seven six zero minus
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two nine four zero so we added 820 pounds to his van
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now this is without the water tank in his van
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so since we're all just kind of putting this together let's do this
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oh hey Abby thanks for joining the chat remember if you got a van related question put in the chat below we're not
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just talking about van weight even though that's the whole live stream but we are all also answering questions on
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all kinds of stuff van related so if you have a question put in the chat
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so about 820 pounds worth of items have been put into Thomas's van
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for the build and let's go ahead and continue with this
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we're gonna cheat for a second and we're gonna go from the first slide second we're gonna go the third slide and we're
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gonna talk about weight of water really quick so 820 is this let's memorize that
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so 820 then we have a 20 gallon water tank that's 8.35
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um so 24 times
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so with his both of his water tanks filled up his four gallon hot water his 20 gallon
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uh fresh we got 200.4 more pounds plus the 820 pounds of build out
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so now we go to this second one and instead of
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7 500 pounds we've got about seven thousand
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seven hundred pounds and we're gonna we're gonna add a little
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bit more to that so let's just say probably maybe no more than a hundred
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pounds so we're at about 7 800 pounds so we're at 7 800 pounds and remember we
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started with 6560 pounds so this is a way to kind of monitor
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uh your your weight rating
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now your weight rating on your van there's all kinds of things that are going to influence this
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so these vans come in all different flavors that we have the 150 version
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which is my van which is outside it's a low roof um
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V6 but the weight capacity has to do with the springs and the in the rear of the van so I just have like a single
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leaf spring it's a 150 weight rating you come up you got the 250.
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um so these numbers if they sound familiar they coincide with like a F-150 F-250 F-350 450 550
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there's all kinds of different uh ranges for for stuff like this
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go and do hey glad to have you back to the Stream
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let's see here
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cool so we're gonna I'll put that that uh let's get this um
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so check this out we got a question about Tower carrier so on the back
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I'm going to do this this is Q and A
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and check this out boom there you go so
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I've got your question in here
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perfect so we'll just we'll just keep this going along and then when I get through the stream we'll go to these questions and
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we'll answer them and if they kind of fit into what I'm talking about we'll we'll bring them right into the chat
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so now that we've weighed his van we know what our weight is looking like
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uh we're able to kind of calculate like the water weight
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um so what I was talking about is like F-150 F2 Thrift 250 350 uh like pickup
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trucks that's what most people hear you know they're familiar with that like a Ford pickup truck so the Vans are the
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same thing so as the 150 number the 250 number the 350 number as that number
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increases your load capacity increases in the van and there's two types of load
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capacities and hold on a second I'm going to zoom in to my face just a little bit more
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there we go so there's there's two types of load
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capacities
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okay
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okay the first one we talked about the van so we're talking about our gross vehicle weight rating the second load
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capacity has to do with if you you may have one you may not and that's a trailer hitch
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so your trailer hitch that's mounted on the rear of your van
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there's a bunch of different trailer hitches that that you can have and there's a bunch of different classes
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of trailer hitch and that has to do with the capacity that the hitch can handle and it needs to be it needs to coincide
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with what your car truck or van is capable with luckily if you get one from the factory
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it's technically kind of married up to what your van can do
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so just for this example we're talking about the van behind me so you guys can get like a
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real world example um see I'm gonna turn my face off here for
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just a second so over here on the right hand side we have the sticker that's on the trailer
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hitch at the rear of this Ford Transit you know typically
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um you're gonna have a different bunch of different ranges for your weight on a
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trailer hitch and so that is the class of hitch on your van
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so right now this gross vehicle weight rating keep that paused in your mind for a second
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we're going to the trailer hitch which is a different world so we're actually going to go to uh
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Curt Manufacturing you guys have seen these tow hitches they're again no affiliation
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note sponsored just get you guys some easy information here it's right at the Curt website
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and this kind of blew me away I didn't know that they actually had this stuff organized so well
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uh that's why I'm just referencing it because it's it's it makes it's just easier for you guys so click on this
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link and I'll bring my face back in
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so if you look here we've got classes of hitch on the left
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um let's see if I can zoom in just a little bit okay so we get like class one two three
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and over here we have GTW and TW
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uh the GTW has to do with the weight of the trailer
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uh gross trailer weight I believe is what GTW is and then TW is the tongue weight
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so this number in this uh this column right here the two thousand thirty five
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hundred eight thousand that has to do with how
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heavy the trailer is let me walk that back I'm going to be
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very specific about this it's the trailer
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with the trailer cannot weigh more than that
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so there's a low capacity on the trailer and you can't exceed that so let's say
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you have a 2 000 pound trailer let's say we're talking about class three you have a two thousand pound
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trailer that's how much the trailer weighs with nothing in it okay you're cleaning out your house or something and you load the whole trailer up you're
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going to the dump so the max you can have is like six thousand pounds on that trailer
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and that would be your max towing capacity for the trailer but remember so this is where it gets confusing
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you have another variable and that has to do with the tongue weight so imagine all right we're gonna go to
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our drawing board because I like this and guys I'm going to come back to your
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questions I'm Gonna Keep My stream of thought here
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[Music] all right so let's get let's get a
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trailer drawn okay here's our trailer we got our Wheels then we got our trailer hitch
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um okay let's make it an enclosed trailer because we're fancy
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uh we have our our ball that's coming out of the let's
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just let's make this our van this is a terrible drawing
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okay so this is our van all right so here's our van
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so
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the weight that these wheels are experiencing is the
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for our example let's say this is the max is 8 000 pounds
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okay that's how much the trailer is designed to hold just like just like that
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now remember some of this weight and these calculations are done differently for
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different trailers so don't take this completely verbatim but
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this is the theory behind all how this stuff is calculated so a portion of this
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number is going to be also pushing down here so that is the tongue
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where am I yeah t-o
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come on Nick come on engineer
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so the tongue weight so the tongue weight is this weight so the tongue right here this part of
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the hitch I mean the the trailer this part
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right here so the weight that this ball on the hitch
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is experiencing that force is the tongue weight so
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and I'm over simplifying this just so I can teach you guys um so this is trailer
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wait okay so some of this
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is also pushing down here right you guys remember forces right here we got forces
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going down weight now they usually do a percentage of this
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number here the tongue weight so if we look on the computer
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you guys will see that
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so this class three we got 8 000 pounds
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but then we have 800 tongue weight so hit see how they do that in that percentage
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so this is 800. pounds
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and I cannot write tonight
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okay 800 pounds so we have 800 pounds tongue weight
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Max and then we have a trailer that can only hold 8 000 pounds Max
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now guess what this Force pushing down here
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guess what it's also affecting the van
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so this number has to be taken to consideration
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when you are loading your van up so let's say this van had a 95
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GVRW we'd have to subtract the 800
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if it was maxed out and then that would give us our new so let's see we got 95 95
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. so if you maxed out the tongue or the tongue weight your new GVRW would be
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8 700 pounds okay now with that new number
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now start subtracting your build out
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your roof rack uh
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you know your fridge all that stuff so
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let me know if that makes sense so the reason I wanted to get that
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theory explained to you guys is because guess what
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this is what everyone needs to kind of uh I don't
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want you to worry about it but just be aware of it because we are going to go so
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so go and do this answers your this is the this is
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going to answer your question that you had so going to his question was
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I'd like to put a tire carrier ladder and a spare tire on the back door but I'm concerned about weight
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so this hits right here is where your tire
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carrier goes
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okay it's highly unlikely
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it's highly unlikely that um I think my face in here one second
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video capture oh man that's big
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all right it's highly unlikely that your tire carrier
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is going to be more than 800 pounds okay that's good
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that's a big tire so let's just there's a range typically 500
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pounds um is a typical hitch for a vehicle
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so check this out foreign
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so like a Class 2 hitch cars crossovers minivans
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are like class like a class three hitch that's pretty that's pretty normal
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you know 500 to 800 pound tongue weight so
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yeah your tire's not gonna be 800 pounds in the bag so the point I'm trying to make is
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you it's actually a good thing if you're not hauling a trailer you got a lot of room to work with you know 800 pounds of
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work with on that hitch um
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so just keep that in mind so let's just say your hitch was 500 pounds all I want you guys to be aware of is
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there's a maximum rating on your hitch you can't load up the whole entire world on the back of your van
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you can as long as it doesn't go over uh that rating now
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for go and Do's question you're doing a rear tire carrier which
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is probably not going to be on the hitch but just remember it doesn't matter if that 800 pounds is
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on the physical hitch itself because the forces
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on the rear of the van and the rear axle are pretty much they're very very close
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so I'm gonna wrap this up so we don't get too far on the weeds but
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that 800 pounds has to come out of your your GVRW
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all right so back to the slide wait let's get let's get organized again
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so trailer hitch rating for some reason Ford calls it a V5
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so you guys see right here it says V5 I don't know why people do that stuff
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um because this I looked it up it's there's no such thing as a V5 there's like a class 5 hitch
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but it says it's 16 to 17 000 pounds and like a hitch uh tongue weight of 2004
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and that's not true I mean this is true for class five but again this v-5 must be some proprietary
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Ford thing anyway what we know is
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um we know over here that the van behind me can pull a
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trailer that's 7 716 pounds
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and the hitch is 772 pounds so you can see how that's
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a percentage they just take the 7716 just move the decimal point round up one
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that's usually how it's done um so now we know
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how much we could load a we could put a hitch of bikes that are
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772 pounds which would be crazy but we're not doing that okay
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so let's get back over to the trailer hit slide we're going to keep moving here so the trailer hitch rating find
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out what your rating is it'll tell you what your max trailer you can uh
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come on Nick it'll tell you what your
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I'm clicking all kinds of buttons it'll tell you what your max gross weight is to pull
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it'll tell you the tongue weight
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and then like we just said tongue weight is the downward weight on the hitch ball this
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counts against your payload capacity
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and then I kind of I made this a payload equals people so when it says uh sometimes you'll get a
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cargo rating on your van it'll say like this is how much uh cargo
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can be in a van I don't see it on my sticker because I mean mine's a cargo van they
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just assume that there's nothing in there and you're going to load it up and they give you a big number to kind of go off of
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um actually that's not true let me take a picture
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yeah I forgot I got a picture here this is this was an important picture let me see if I can email it to myself
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real quick
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it's finally warming up here
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all right yeah okay I got that emailed
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uh put this back to my face so you guys can't see my email that would be nice
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um
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uh no wrong email
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all right so
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here we go all right so this is what I wanted to show you guys so
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this right here on the right hand side this is your tire and loading
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information so this is the next part that we're going to talk about
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let me pause one second
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okay so to keep you guys organized we talked about gross vehicle weight rating we
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talk about trailer hitch now I'm landing on payload people cargo it's pretty much
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the same thing so this is also what subtracts from your
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gross vehicle weight rating so gross vehicle rating is first
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then whatever your tongue weight if you have anything on your Trail if you're pulling a trailer or you have a like a
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bike rack or a storage box any type of weight that also takes away from away from the
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gross vehicle weight rating and last but not least we have
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your cargo or people so if you look inside your door there's
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two things inside your door there's this little barcode thing sticker and then
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above that sticker you'll have one of these tire and loading information stickers
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even more information that you probably didn't know existed so this right here
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uh it says the combined weight of occupants and cargo should never exceed
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3574 pounds
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so if you saw that you'd be like okay
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all right that's that's people in cargo but now I've taught you how what what
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how that number gets created so if you look at the first sticker
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that nine thousand five hundred pounds first then you go and you subtract your tongue
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weight if you have any
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you'll you'll get to this number but it'll be a more accurate number for for your case because Ford is just assuming
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that you don't have anything in the van at this point they don't know that you have a refrigerator or you know water
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tank all that kind of stuff so now since you're building a van out you technically can't reference this
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number because it it doesn't mean anything now this tire and loading information
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chart does mean a lot more if you have if we're going to talk about
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tires next so van weight keeping your cargo and
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everything uh the weight understood that would be the number one thing that you're not
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overweight because that's dangerous get an accident or you try to avoid something and you've got all that extra
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weight your vehicle Dynamics are going to be it's gonna feel really your the van is
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going to feel different if you haven't had to make like an Abrupt maneuver or like an emergency maneuver
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um so we're moving on so we're done with this first slide
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and now we're going to be talking about tires um
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so you guys can pause it on the screen if you want to take a picture of this or anything just to get this information but hey the live stream will be up for
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forever so you can just come back and represent but now we're going to go into tires
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so tires are the second thing so this sticker right here was a perfect segue not sure why I
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didn't have it before okay tires are what
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connect you to the road all the way to the van your whole build out everything is
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on your tires so it is extremely important that you understand
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the load rating of your tire um because there's been situations that
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I've been aware of where I used to work in a tire shop I used to
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change tires used to change change oil did it when I was in college for two summers and I worked at Advanced Auto
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Parts uh another summer um you kind of see that I enjoy all this
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stuff so I've got a lot of good experience just on Hands-On on stuff like this
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well went when a tire is manufactured for a
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vehicle there's a lot of things that go into it um the load rating and speed rating are
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probably like the number one things of the tire the speed rating has to do with the tire not exploding when you go 80
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miles an hour on the highway and the car weighs so many thousand pounds there's a
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there's a formula that nice James thanks
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um there's a formula to make sure that doesn't happen um engineering explained if you guys
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know his channel he uh let's see here
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here we go he did this video okay everything you need to know about electric cars in this
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video he explains how incredible like a tire for an
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electric vehicle is because an EV is ex way more heavier than uh
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way heavier than a regular car the batteries weigh so much not only that uh the car is more quiet
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so you know all these things don't actually play well together
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so he's explaining this bit this is a great video you guys should definitely watch it but he explains how
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the tire manufacturer makes a tire that can withstand all the weight it's quiet it gets long good uh
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Tire life and you know like the PSIs and stuff like that we're going to talk a
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little bit about that but watch this video because he does a really good job at explaining
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the uh the mechanics of a tire so I mean he he really dives into this
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stuff so if you guys want to nerd out on how
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all the stuff that I'm talking about actually relates in more detail check out that video it's an engine explained
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um he's talking about Tire stuff anyway so let's talk about
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load capacity and we'll also talk about speed rating
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speedrunning is not that important because typically when you build it I mean
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you're you're really not gonna be driving over 75 80 miles an hour because I mean you're already getting terrible
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gas mileage as it is I know I know this
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um so let's check this out so let's talk about load index
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[Music] um and we're going to go to Tire Rack
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so Tire Rack uh we're gonna use it for our explanation tonight
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[Music] um get distracted here
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all right so load index on the side of your tire there's a bunch of numbers you probably have no idea what they are but
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they have to do with uh the aspects of your tire that need to be matched in order for that tire to fit
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on your particular vehicle so in this case
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foreign we have p195 slash 60 r15 87 s
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you'll see this on your your car P designates the class so P for example
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B passenger tire um on these transits
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they don't have a p designation because that's usually for
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lower um like light like passenger car tires LT
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uh right here light trucks so if you see an lt195 that would be like a light truck tire
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but the passenger or light truck um it's important
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but it's not the end of the world because it has to do with um like the reinforcement of the tire
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the the main thing that we want to talk about is
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E load we are going to talk about that uh pretty seriously
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so what we have here is after the P we have 195.
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so 185 is the width of the tire so we're going to go over and draw this
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okay so we have a tire
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okay it's kind of a lopsided tire anyway the uh
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the first number is the section width so for our example
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I'm gonna put in the 195. so that 195 is
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this c195 right here 195. that is
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oh geez that is the width uh now you have um
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remember this is a tire so technically the rim
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is in between here right so the next number
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is the aspect ratio
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uh people I mean some people kind of call it the the thickness of the tire
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um but it is a ratio because it's not like a fixed number technically this 195
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uh does mean something like I think it's I guess what
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um I think it's millimeters anyway getting too far here so the 195 is the
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width 60 is the the thickness of that side so if I
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drew a side view
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it is this kind of that that thickness
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hold on one second
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all right so let's get to our next number so the next number here is the uh
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the R so that is the the rim so that'd be like your diameter of your
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rim and that is here so like R 15 in this example it's a 15
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inch rim and then we got 87
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and so 87 is the tire's load index so that's what we've been going for so if you go in this chart you'll see
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that it's 1201 pounds that's how much a single
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Tire with this uh 195 60 15 87 can withstand
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per tire so quick math that is what four thousand
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uh 800 pounds 804 technically um
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but as you notice our van is nine thousand 500 pounds Max so obviously this is not
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the tire for a van s is the speed rating but
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I didn't pull up that chart um yeah we're not gonna worry about the speed rating
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because when you get to the heavy duty eload tires which are on the Ford transits
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um that's pretty much just going to come with the territory you have an eload Tire all right
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so we talked about load index I know it's kind of boring but it's important for safety
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and the reason is e-load rated tires these Vans are so heavy that an e-load
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Rated Tire is extremely important for
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um it's very important
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so they come from the factory as an e-load uh the deload tire
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let's pull up these two examples all right let me pause for a second and check out the chat here
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yeah one over one three seven perfect yep keep all that stuff up in the cabinets light
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[Music] um yeah try to get that center of gravity just as low as possible absolutely
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all right so back to the tires so as far as safety goes everything is on
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your tires um I Came Upon This when I was working on
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uh Thomas's van and the tires that were
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the rim offset that he had uh I don't believe allowed the eload
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tire to be put on but there was a deload tire purchased on his
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van now it works because his the weight of his van is not that heavy however
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an e-load tire is what is recommended uh from Ford so I have two
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examples here I've got a two 55 70 16 which is technically the widest
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Tire you can fit Factory on the 16 inch rim before Transit it's a 152 5350 doesn't matter as long
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as it's not the non-dually version that is the biggest size that'll fit and then
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I have the 245 70 16 which is the one that was purchased
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um or which was the one that was on his van I think it might be a 17 inch rim however
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uh that doesn't matter all right let's look at these two examples hopefully this link will work
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all right perfect all right so we have we have this tire
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we've got the BFG all-terrain ko2 and let's see if I can get fancy with
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this monitor here um we got this one and then we got this one
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okay so we're gonna pull both of these aside we're gonna pull our
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uh heck yeah there we go look at that
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all right so let me make my face small here
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okay we have two van tires the one on the left is the biggest one
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you can fit Factory with no modifications technically on the right is a little bit skinnier
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Tire both look the same one's a little bit
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skinnier they both have the same aspect ratio as far as thickness you would say
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but there's one big difference and that is the load range the one on the left
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has a load range of E which is what is uh Factory replacement load rating for
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the Ford Transit the one on the right is load range D which is not
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I'll explain further load range e okay as you
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as you get bigger tires on a van uh okay let's just say
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you uh you got a passenger car or something like that or like a trailer tire you know usually that's anywhere from like
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35 to 50 psi you know maybe like 65 PSI something something along those ranges
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but when you have something upwards that has a potential capacity like 9 500
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pounds so let's just do the math really quick on that so let's say you maxed out your gross
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weight on your van 9500 divided by four wheels that means each tire has to withstand 2
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375 pounds worth of force uh on them
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now you can build a tire that is like hard as a stone and maybe doesn't have that
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much psi but the more weight that a tire has to withstand
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you need to increase the PSI pressure per square inch in order to
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hold up that weight so if we go back to the computer here
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you'll notice the load range e Max load three thousand eighty-five pounds
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uh so you notice this tire of the
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that's how you know that this tire is safe we got 3085 pounds per tire if you remember
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I just did the math 9500 is two thousand seven two thousand
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three hundred seventy five pounds per tire so we've got a difference there of what
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is that like 700 700 pounds 710 pounds something
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like that so we've got a wiggle room of 700 pounds per tire pretty good all right that
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means we're in the safe Zone but notice it says max PSI of 80 psi
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now Ford Transit has the uh the tire pressure the TPMS tire pressure
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monitoring sensors now they are happy if you have a tire
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that's correctly put on your van and that has a income withstand 80 psi the
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sensor is happy it's like you know what he's got to filled up to 80 psi I'm happy I'm not gonna alarm and tell them
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that the tires are low but guess what if you get a load range d
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check this out we go from 3085 pound capacity at 80 psi
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and now we go to we go all the way down to 2535 pounds at 65 PSI
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so two things are going to happen remember let me pull my window up here
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remember if we are maxed out on our weight we're at 2 375 pounds
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if we buy a deload tire look how close we're pushing it
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2 375 pounds 2535 pounds so our margin of error
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our margin of safety is very thin
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not to mention this 65 PSI is gonna our tire pressure monitoring sensors are
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gonna start to go off because we can't we can't fill the tire at more than 65
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PSI 65 PSI is the highest that we can fill the tire up
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so that is that is the difference
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now the reason I brought this up safety wise is let's say that you went to a tire shop they're going to put some tires on your van and you have no clue
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about you know you just don't know about tires you haven't watched Nick's video on van safety
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and you go there and they say oh you know uh
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we gotta we don't have a 255 70 16 um in stock but we do have a 245 Set uh
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whatever we don't have a e-load but we have a d load um and I think you'll be fine you'll be
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fine technically on paper yes you'll be fine but you're gonna have to make sure that you did not overload your van
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which overload your tires because the tires were the wrong load range
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if that makes sense so when you go to buy tires in the future look here
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[Music] um
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make sure you look on your van and you look at the sticker in the door
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and right here do you see this front 235 65 r16c
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121 119r make sure that whatever tire place you
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go to is replacing your tire with the correct
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load range now
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this does not say the load range I'm not sure why it doesn't but
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if you looked on if I went down at the bottom of this van it's going to tell me that it's an e-load Tire
1:00:01
and that's the range all right
1:00:06
I think we have talked about tires enough but hopefully that helped you with the tire portion of this just know that
1:00:15
just because the tire looks the same doesn't mean it is rated the same for
1:00:20
safety uh rated to withstand the amount of weight you're going to put in your van
1:00:28
uh so I'm going to give you guys one more uh before we get to our last slide
1:00:33
we're going to talk about tool like some online tools that you can use uh well one it's tire size calculator so I love this
1:00:41
website again no affiliation but this site's really cool because let's say
1:00:46
you are looking at your stick or your van and your sticker says 235 65 r16.
1:00:56
so you go in the tire size you're gonna you go to tire tire comparison click on that
1:01:03
and then put that in 235 65
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16. all right so that number comes from this sticker 235 65 r16.
1:01:16
so you put that number in all right then you go to size two so if you wanted
1:01:22
to go with a bigger tire for your van this is going to tell you how different
1:01:30
they're going to give you a rough visual of what it's going to look like visually different and then they'll actually give
1:01:37
you a measurement of how much wider and taller the tire is
1:01:42
so for this case let's go and we'll just do like a plus one so like a plus one on
1:01:47
Tire size would be going from a 235 to a 245.
1:01:54
um and then we're going to go from a 65 and we're going to go up to a 70.
1:02:00
and then we have to keep the same Rim unless we're buying a different rim so once we put these two things in
1:02:07
we can uh click compare and on the right here
1:02:13
we see that tire one is our factory tire two is our bigger tire that we wanted to
1:02:20
put on our van um you know show off right
1:02:26
so we got a bigger tire but at the bottom now we can see that our original is 9.3 inches wide
1:02:34
and 9.6 is is the next one so we didn't actually go that much wider
1:02:40
so that's going to help with the functionality you know turning uh
1:02:45
you know brake caliper clearance shock clearance all that stuff but notice we actually gained an inch and a half
1:02:53
and ride height which is pretty awesome look at that went from 28 inches to 29
1:02:59
and a half um actually take that back that'd be like 0.75
1:03:06
uh inches because we gotta split it but almost an inch higher
1:03:13
three three quarters of an inch and then if we went over to that Max size that I was telling you about 255 70
1:03:19
16 check that out we go from 9.3 inches to 10 inches wide
1:03:24
28 inches to 30 inches
1:03:34
all right so now let's pop back over here and we've got
1:03:43
we talk about tires we talk about some tools for tire size calculator all right now we're going to talk about
1:03:49
our final slide so guys if you're watching got some questions go ahead and put those in the
1:03:54
chat be happy to answer those questions as we keep
1:03:59
streaming here so we talked about gross vehicle weight we
1:04:06
talked about tires how those uh can be unsafe if the load
1:04:11
range is not correct so now we're going to talk about
1:04:17
how all this stuff kind of comes together so
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the question I have for you guys is what items have you installed on your camper van
1:04:28
uh that you really haven't thought of you know being a a big deal
1:04:33
have you built your whole entire van out of wood aluminum 80 20 if you have Steel
1:04:39
uh and not only that how is that weight distributed so weight distribution
1:04:46
um so 1 over 173 or 1 over 137 sorry
1:04:55
they were saying uh center of gravity is low as possible is safer and that's 100 true so let's go to our drawing pad here
1:05:04
and we're going to look at the inside of our van
1:05:16
and there's a couple a couple things
1:05:22
having we got our water tank we got our power system
1:05:28
and then we've got our roof rack we've got cabinet storage
1:05:34
maybe we have two cabinets so there's this thing called
1:05:41
um it's like the center of gravity triangle I couldn't find like a technical term
1:05:46
for it but basically it has to do with
1:05:54
uh it's a triangle that displays
1:06:01
like kind of like your teeter-tottering or whatever so like The Wider a van would be the
1:06:07
more stable it would be but unfortunate for us fans are usually a
1:06:12
specific width not any wider you could get wired wider rims or tires or stuff
1:06:18
like that but um yeah pretty standard
1:06:25
now the what where you can affect that is how high up you go all right so in a perfect world you
1:06:32
would have um like a low center of gravity all right
1:06:38
the triangle would be like this be very kind of equal
1:06:43
all right and so that would give you your best center of gravity because nothing would
1:06:49
be um like above this Top Line
1:06:54
so when you're building a van the bonuses are
1:07:00
you know you have your water tank over here so that's nice and low you got your power system over here so
1:07:07
that's pretty nice and low not only that but they're probably over
1:07:12
the axle so that's nice and stable so that is not too much of a worry
1:07:19
what would be a worry is if you have your power over here and your water over here
1:07:25
and your water is empty versus full
1:07:31
empty you're gonna you know obviously you're gonna power is gonna be the heavier side but really at the end of the day
1:07:39
if you fill your water tank up and you have a pretty uh beefy power system they're probably
1:07:45
going to be around the same remember 20 gallon tank is approximately
1:07:52
foreign tank is 167 pounds
1:07:59
your power system it's it's pretty close to that um
1:08:05
so not to worry about water or power what what does become a concern and you
1:08:11
can actually feel it in the steering wheel when you drive are those upper systems
1:08:17
so when you start to add your upper cabinets
1:08:22
when you start to fill those cabinets up with gear
1:08:28
and then the big big one is the roof rack solar panels vent fan
1:08:37
so this up here this is where you're going to have the most this most
1:08:42
significant player of the whole game so
1:08:47
roof rack companies they make them out of aluminum yeah they do their best but then what we do and you guys as do wires
1:08:55
too is man we want to put all the vent fans up there we want to put solar up there and you
1:09:01
know what we actually might even put a big heavy AC unit
1:09:06
now let's talk about the roofs of Ford
1:09:11
transits and I'm going to try to put this back in my face for a second
1:09:17
all right guys those in the Stream questions put those in the chat while I look up these uh the Ford Transit I had a number
1:09:24
for the maximum roof weight
1:09:54
and I'm just going through a forum I've I've found uh
1:10:00
a whole chart that does this but essentially the quick answer
1:10:06
is right here about eight Bounty points and about essentially 560 pounds of weight on the
1:10:12
roof rack on the roof so 560 pounds is about all you get
1:10:18
so if you start to put together you know your roof rack your panels the
1:10:26
max fans are they're pretty light so I wouldn't really worry about that but then like an AC unit especially I mean
1:10:31
you've almost already surpassed the safe limit
1:10:37
so it's not that nobody does this a lot of people do but it's just something to be conscious of so maybe if you do go
1:10:44
over that limit you're just a little bit more careful with driving you understand the kind of the Dynamics of your vehicle
1:10:50
and you're not pushing stuff to the limit when you're driving and that's pretty much what I'm talking
1:10:56
about is you know distribution of weight be aware of how that's distributed so if
1:11:03
you have a lot of stuff on your roof rack just know that you're going to have to look ahead when you're driving you know
1:11:10
you're not going to be able to just like swerve out of the middle of traffic to try to avoid something unfortunately just gonna have to be conscious of that
1:11:17
the example of the water tank that was just to show you uh that's just kind of like a wake up moment of oh wow
1:11:24
you know a gallon of water is 8.35 pounds that's a lot I mean if
1:11:29
you've got a 40 gallon water tank which is going in the van behind me um
1:11:35
I mean that's 334 pounds so something to think about
1:11:41
and remember like we did on the cat skills so remember these guys
1:11:47
that was the van weight that's your build out weight your cargo weight
1:11:52
passenger load um all that is rating writing those four tires
1:11:58
and I put this uh just down here briefly brake maintenance so remember
1:12:04
it's good to get going where you're going but if you can't stop that's another thing
1:12:10
just make sure your brakes are in good condition um the roof rack weight uh we actually
1:12:16
already talked about that so we just drew this up here talked about roof rack weight
1:12:23
and uh talking about the center of gravity stuff like that
1:12:29
and yep guys so I'm going to go over the safe driving tips and then
1:12:36
going to answer any more questions that come through the chat so if you haven't got a chance to ask a question go ahead
1:12:42
and pop in those questions um
1:12:48
yeah safe driving tips so these are just a checklist I put together so tire pressure it doesn't matter what
1:12:54
the load capacity of your tires are if you don't have enough air in them uh they are not going to be rated to
1:13:02
that weight so that is a fun fact guys that air down their tires to go like off-roading and
1:13:08
stuff like that you're decreasing uh that capacity
1:13:15
so make sure that your tires are at the appropriate air pressure before you got on a long trip
1:13:22
double check your brakes make sure everything's in good working order um
1:13:27
one thing everybody forgets about is securing cargo you don't know about drawers opening up silverware flying
1:13:34
over all over the place cabinets opening up until you go around that corner and all
1:13:40
your stuff falls out of your your van cabinets so make sure your cargo's secured things are latched stuff like
1:13:46
that um if you still have enough weight capacity to pull a trailer you know make
1:13:53
sure the trailer is secure make sure those safety uh hooks are connected
1:13:58
um you know double check just do some quick math to make sure you're not over loading your hitch
1:14:06
if you're not overloading your trailer or your van altogether and last but not least verify you're not
1:14:14
over your GVWR of your your van uh a lot of Manufacturers that have
1:14:20
upfitted vans they get that number really really close because they want
1:14:26
everything to look really nice inside they're putting a lot of materials in there and I mean they're they're pushing
1:14:32
the limits really close to where if you do the math go on paper you'll
1:14:38
notice there's there's very little room of stuff that you can add to the van
1:14:45
um so just be aware of that uh yeah I'm gonna spend a couple minutes
1:14:50
just going through these slides kind of cleaning up the computer here getting ready to sign off for today's live
1:14:55
stream and uh before I do that let's hop on over here
1:15:08
so we're gonna head over to my business Odyssey custom vans so if you guys are looking to get a professional van build
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completed check out Odyssey custom vans so this is
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and if you guys want to do a build click on the contact page
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story tell me what you're looking for to do if you're going to do over Landing or
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you want to do more like the van live kind of like Parks stuff like that you know tell me your story why are you
1:15:48
getting out there uh where do you want to go where do you want to travel and love to sit down have that conversation
1:15:54
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work with you all right guys we talked about van Waite
1:16:12
keeping it safe um we covered a lot of technical stuff here so that's the cool thing about live
1:16:18
streams you can just rewind it go back through the whole entire thing but yeah
1:16:24
you can't put everything on the van but you can get really close so just always remember that there is a maximum number
1:16:31
there's a ceiling that you're going to hit after you do all those add-ons on your van
1:16:37
um and that's just to keep you safe that's how the van was structurally designed by the engineers and it's
1:16:43
really good to just adhere to that number that number can be found inside your
1:16:49
door jamb of the driver's side door you're looking for GVWR and that'll tell
1:16:55
you everything you need to know last but not least tire and loading information very
1:17:01
important if you are oversizing your tires and you are upgrading
1:17:07
make sure you're not focused on the price lower weight rating tires are a little
1:17:13
bit cheaper and before I really commit to that let me just double check here these are the
1:17:20
current moment 248 they may be the same amount let's see
1:17:26
here oh it's actually opposite I'm gonna walk that back
1:17:37
but I would still be sometimes they are different so just just be careful all
1:17:43
right be careful about the load range of your
1:17:48
tire make sure that just because the tire looks the same does not mean it's
1:17:54
rated for a certain load capacity make sure the person that you're buying the tire from can show you that that
1:18:01
tire that you're wanting to upgrade to or put on your van uh your van is going to be able to
1:18:08
withstand the weight of your van and your build out just remember that
1:18:14
all right guys oh yeah that's a Nova
1:18:19
she's she's the shop dog she's a pretty good all right guys it's time for Q a so if
1:18:26
you've got a question put it in the chat um yeah we'll just leave this open here for a minute let's talk about
1:18:33
some questions so I'm just gonna go back through and uh yeah go and do the tire carrier
1:18:41
um I'm gonna show you some stuff that I recommend so this company makes expensive products
1:18:48
but they're they're pretty much like kind of like the go-to I would say
1:18:54
uh it's a luminous products and if you go here you may have already
1:19:00
been to this website but if we go to uh Ford Transit and
1:19:05
let's hit up the 2020 plus and we're going to go to
1:19:11
I'm going to go to rear rear door tire rack so this guy
1:19:21
um it's it's crazy how these prices have gone up because I think
1:19:27
October last year this was eleven hundred dollars now it's 12.95
1:19:34
so if you're in the market device and this stuff um it's probably steadily going to go up throughout the year so if
1:19:39
you're if you're set on getting a tire wreck or something might be good to go ahead and
1:19:45
uh purchase it but I like aluminous because this is It's kind of uh I say this in a good way
1:19:52
it's kind of like a No Frills tire carrier it's very clean sleek
1:19:58
and not only can you put a tire on it but you can also put a rear box if you don't change your
1:20:05
tires now the only reason that you would need a tire there's a couple reasons that you
1:20:11
would want to get a a rear tire carrier one is just for the sole fact of when
1:20:17
you plus size or increase the size of your tire uh say you wanted to go with that 255 70
1:20:24
16 that's not going to fit underneath where your spare tire carrier is and you won't
1:20:31
be able to use that so that's why you have to when you upgrade get a fifth Tire as your spare and put on the back
1:20:36
of your van um another reason you might want it is because it looks cool
1:20:43
um and then the last reason would be you know hey I want to have a little bit more storage and
1:20:49
um I'm gonna have a storage box in the back uh the next one would be owl vans
1:21:08
so Ford Transit owl vans
1:21:20
yes yes go and do I do do consoles over the phone so
1:21:25
go to Odyssey custom vans go to the website click on contact
1:21:32
uh put your information in there and then that way we can I just have it in my files for contacting you
1:21:39
and uh we can talk about you know price hours stuff like that
1:21:46
um kind of like the packages I put together uh because some people actually uh maybe they're just maybe this is you for
1:21:52
example they're just wanting to sit down and have like a proposal and advice done for their potential build so it's
1:21:59
actually uh not me doing it it would be more for like just laying out the
1:22:05
the groundwork to kind of get going um and then if we did want to work together that would be great
1:22:12
but yeah do both both things and yep give me that information and we
1:22:18
can talk details on the phone um but owl vans
1:22:25
they have where is the cure rear carrier
1:22:33
so owl gear
1:22:39
okay I think the reason that I don't go to hours because Ford transit's coming along there's a
1:22:46
lot of stuff happening um but right now Sprinter has a lot of
1:22:52
selection uh but I have to tell you from a build
1:22:57
standpoint I really like the foundation of the Ford Transit the all-wheel drive system
1:23:03
uh it's it's it's more the the reason everybody liked the Sprinter van is
1:23:10
because it had like an old-school differential type kind of raw four-wheel drive system
1:23:18
whereas the Ford Transit all-wheel drive there's a difference between four-wheel
1:23:23
drive and all-wheel drive four wheel drive gives you the potential to physically lock all four wheels what
1:23:32
that means is all four wheels are turning now you would say well Nick
1:23:38
all-wheel drive means all-wheels Drive well that's technically they do so
1:23:44
technically all-wheel drive is two wheels turning and the differential
1:23:51
will transfer that to opposite Wills
1:23:56
um so now there's some uh traction control
1:24:02
management technology in there that allows it to be more robust but at the end of the day
1:24:09
people like the old sprinters because it was that hardcore
1:24:14
lockable four-wheel drive like Locker locking hubs type of thing
1:24:20
the Ford Transit is a little bit more uh it's an all-wheel drive system it's the
1:24:25
easiest way to explain it however interesting news the new sprinters
1:24:31
coming out I believe have an all-wheel drive system and you can't get the
1:24:36
old-school four-wheel drive locking hubs anymore so they're actually matching the Ford
1:24:42
Transit and that's kind of where I was talking about how Ford is I don't know maybe a little bit Superior
1:24:48
at the current moment um but uh that would be a difference
1:24:54
um but yeah Tire carriers you know but aluminous if you have a Ford Transit uh
1:25:01
oh yeah go and do you have a Ford Transit or do you have a van currently tell me what tell me what
1:25:07
van you're working with all right let's get to John here
1:25:19
okay John I have a video of me replacing my rotors and pads
1:25:27
on my Ford Transit and yeah it's in the archive so I need to
1:25:32
get that video edited because oh guys it's it's wild if you have to do a rear brake
1:25:40
job on these vans believe it or not you actually have if you need to
1:25:46
turn the rotors I wouldn't even it's it's worthless to turn whatever's rotors just buy more rotors
1:25:53
um but to replace the rotor you have to
1:25:58
pull the axle out it is wild
1:26:04
um so John you don't have to drop the axle uh but you do have to literally pull the
1:26:11
axle out of each side um it's not as messy as I thought it
1:26:18
would be because when I jack the van up uh so I do a lift on one side
1:26:24
that uh differential fluid drains into the differential and then when I pull
1:26:29
the axle out uh it really didn't drip hardly anything it's actually not that bad
1:26:36
um as they say it is but I will tell you it's 100 something you could do at home
1:26:41
if you wanted to um I bet they shoot they charged like crazy at the dealership
1:26:47
but yeah don't turn the rotors just go to RockAuto
1:26:53
buy new rotors it's not that expensive [Music] um
1:26:58
the brake pads same thing I just go to RockAuto uh
1:27:05
I don't think it's more than like 200 bucks or something like that it's it's really it's if you're doing it yourself
1:27:12
[Music] um yeah it's not that bad so I actually might do a you know what
1:27:18
I'm gonna do that in a future live stream I will commentate on do commentary on me doing
1:27:27
the rear brake replacement on the Ford Transit
1:27:32
um I just literally just got the parts in to do the front brakes on my Ford Transit so I think that'll be a good uh
1:27:40
I think that'll be a good um what should I say good video
1:27:47
um yeah
1:27:55
all right for Trans all-wheel drive EcoBoost
1:28:01
extended man I'm jealous yeah extended man that's an awesome van
1:28:08
that will be an awesome band heck yeah
1:28:16
yep yep um
1:28:27
yeah go and do definitely fill out that contact form on the website I'm just going to drop
1:28:33
the link here for you just so you can easily click on
1:28:38
it and uh yeah we'll uh
1:28:47
we'll talk about your upcoming van build that's really exciting yeah I think if I could go back and do
1:28:54
it these would be the extended because uh I'm I'm having an uh
1:29:01
I have an issue with the bed design
1:29:06
um right now it's a short full for the mattress size which is that's
1:29:12
for me that that's fine in a van because um you know the utility of being able to uh heat something up cook wash your
1:29:20
hands refrigerator all that stuff to me that's uh I can go with having a
1:29:26
smaller area to I guess to sleep in um but a short full
1:29:32
you know that that's good for camping uh because a queen a full queen size bed
1:29:38
that's a lot of I mean the real estate is very expensive in a van so
1:29:49
no that's exciting but yeah the break video that'd be cool to uh to
1:29:54
walk you guys through um it's not that scary and then uh
1:30:04
so go and do what type of uh traveling are you uh
1:30:10
I say I think yesterday we're you'd uh is that nursing is that what I had
1:30:15
yesterday
1:30:30
yeah I didn't I didn't put the comments in
1:30:45
[Music] where is
1:30:59
all right I know we got a couple people watching so if you guys have a question on Van building put that in the chat
1:31:04
we'll uh we'll go here on to another topic and we pretty much covered you know
1:31:10
being safe as far as the van goes um yeah let me hear about about your builds um so if anybody's watching
1:31:17
they're doing a DIY build or they got a van on the way let me know about what you're looking uh
1:31:22
for to putting in your van um or if there's something on top of your mind
1:31:27
you got a question on as far as uh what to do
1:31:33
here to answer questions
1:33:02
that's right travel nurse yep I mean if you've got the extended coming
1:33:08
I mean that's yeah you're gonna enjoy that because I mean you you can do
1:33:15
pretty much the best of all worlds you know you can have good sized bed you can have the shower inside you've still got
1:33:21
room for like a dinette you know good size area for like refrigerator placement
1:33:28
um and the good thing about the newer Fords so for example this Ford is a 2020.
1:33:37
um the fort over here that one is a 2021 so there's a
1:33:44
there's a difference the difference between them is the break the parking brake the 2021 is
1:33:51
uh deleted from the floor so it's not in the way when you go to move the swivel seats
1:33:57
um but the 2020 unfortunately has the big handbrake and you have to install a
1:34:04
handbrake lowering kit so we have to unlike unbolt it and stuff like that so if you did want the swivel seats in the
1:34:11
front of the van this one has to be modified a little bit more
1:34:16
so that's just kind of goes with the territory but yeah if you're getting a
1:34:22
a new one that's gonna be really cool especially extended for sure
1:34:42
yeah but definitely if you want to chat band details click on that link fill that contact form and uh yeah we'll hop
1:34:49
on a call I'd be happy to uh to help you out with that
1:34:57
and we're looking at a couple new topics coming down the line [Music] um
1:35:06
let's see here what we got
1:35:16
so I do want to do a campervan solar system uh so just a
1:35:22
basic solar system setup with a charge controller you know kind of kind of like we did
1:35:28
with the light switch but a little much better that one was a little that one got a little technical it was
1:35:34
supposed to be a simpler live stream about how to turn a light bulb on but it turned into
1:35:39
Blue C systems and wire gauge and all this stuff so uh the camper van
1:35:46
uh solar power system [Music] I think that's something everybody can
1:35:52
can benefit from solar power is very uh
1:35:58
it's very simple it looks intimidating but it's very simple
1:36:10
[Music] um van conversion walls
1:36:18
so the van behind me I'll probably be doing uh I'll be actually converting the
1:36:24
adventure wagon walls because I need to have I need to have a like like command
1:36:31
center with all the the switches and gauges because I'm probably not doing a red Arc system in this van because the
1:36:39
bill of materials for this van has already been purchased a couple months ago um that was before I found out how much
1:36:45
I liked the red Arc system so I've got a C Marine interface digital interface
1:36:53
kind of looks like the victron dashboard um and then I have the uh the renergy 3000
1:37:01
watt inverter charger and some other components so
1:37:07
that'll be going on in that um let's see here
1:37:14
so van cabinets we've probably been well we can go through the van cabinets and
1:37:19
Thomas's and Amboy comes up so guys prepare yourself for a next week
1:37:26
because when Thomas van when his van comes in uh we'll be doing multiple live streams
1:37:31
on all the parts of his van because it's about 95 complete essentially what
1:37:38
I'm doing is I've got a couple more panel still upholster I want to clean up some wiring
1:37:44
um we're going to upholster with some four-way stretch fabric some
1:37:49
of the the metal parts that are still showing in this van because uh
1:37:54
just to warm it up a little bit um it doesn't do that big of a deal but
1:37:59
getting a you know like a soft touch versus that cold steel
1:38:05
um it at least makes you feel warmer uh like if you accidentally bump up against it type of thing
1:38:11
so we're gonna be doing that and then we have a air compressor an ARB air
1:38:17
compressor at the back of the van and we want to start uh talking about
1:38:23
hard lining that into the van build itself I think he's going to be doing he's going to be getting a rear bumper
1:38:31
that has a quick connect fitting location port for the air compressor so
1:38:36
all I mean all kinds of cool stuff coming down the line and then we're going to try to do an a
1:38:43
hidden Shore power plug so a hidden waterproof proof Shore power
1:38:49
plug underneath the passenger rear axle area
1:38:56
um still working on how that's going to be mounted but
1:39:01
yeah we got that going on [Music] um
1:39:06
but yeah as far as he's got the band's gonna be really cool so it'll be parked this van will go outside and be put on
1:39:13
pause for a couple weeks get his van done it's going to come back in
1:39:19
and then let's see what else is going to happen um
1:39:24
yeah but is this last week or so I've just been pretty much organized in the shop getting ready for that
1:39:30
um we'll be replacing the uh
1:39:38
the shunt the shunt for his power system um some clearances got in the way and
1:39:45
kind of nicked one of the communication cables so we're going to relocate that charger
1:39:51
uh we'll we'll put in the new shunt when it comes from rhetoric Electronics
1:39:56
so I'll show you guys uh the power system is pretty it's a it's a robust
1:40:02
power system we have we ran out of
1:40:07
wireless control ports on the redarc system which is 10. so rhetoric has an app
1:40:13
and you can have 10 wirelessly Bluetooth controlled on off switches
1:40:20
and we added another six because he just has so many fun Gadgets in the van
1:40:28
but yeah really really really good excited for that to uh to come through
1:40:37
all right guys I got about 15 minutes before I got to head out of here so
1:40:44
let's get some questions going through I know we got a couple more people on the stream tonight
1:40:50
see what we got right now yeah we got a couple people out there
1:41:08
yeah but his van will be picked up Tuesday so there won't be a stream it won't be a
1:41:14
live stream on Monday and Tuesday next week we'll kick off Wednesday and it'll obviously be on his van we're
1:41:22
going to do as many streams about his van get as much content to you guys out there as possible
1:41:27
uh because not only is it really like a one-off build but um
1:41:33
I mean it's definitely a special build it is uh something I'm really proud of
1:41:38
I want to show you guys the ceiling the ceiling of the van is awesome so if you've seen uh Adventure van Expo
1:41:45
with that slatted roof ceiling with like the like the Frosted LEDs and the ceiling
1:41:52
pretty cool
1:42:20
foreign guys I don't see any questions coming in so we're going to go ahead and
1:42:26
end the stream tonight up there we go we got
1:42:33
perfect John awesome yeah remember we're here we're gonna be doing this live stream
1:42:39
pretty much every weekday night 8 P.M um I might be leaving early tomorrow
1:42:45
afternoon so I'm gonna try to see if I can sneak in a live stream but the next one might be uh
1:42:52
next Wednesday
1:43:00
yeah go and do click that link be happy to talk to you on the phone um
1:43:06
yeah click on that get that contact info and yeah definitely would look forward to
1:43:12
speaking with you help you out on your van progress
1:43:20
yeah guys so let's plan on next Wednesday officially it'll be Thomas's
1:43:26
fans and we'll be we'll be knocking out that content um yeah that'd be awesome
1:43:33
but guys that is gonna do it for the stream tonight look forward to next week
1:43:39
everybody have a great weekend and uh yeah keep those comments going even when
1:43:44
the stream's over on different videos um definitely helps kind of lay the
1:43:49
foundation for more future streams more videos answering questions helping you guys out
1:43:55
that's what I'm here for so we will see you guys in the next live stream
1:44:10
thank you
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