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Jul 7, 2025
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[Music]
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Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music]
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Hey guys, welcome back to our late night live stream. Um, I've been kind of splitting the day up into two sections.
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So, the morning time I've been working on, uh, I finished up that dinette section, cutting the pieces on the saw.
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So, if you missed that, check out the last live stream. We did a dinette with a 500lb drawer slide pull outs and
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custom seat cushions by Rome Rest. Tonight, we are getting into,
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we'll call it Sunday funday, uh, which is the wiring. So, something I
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want to get checked off the list, it's it's not the funnest part of custom van building, but it's a necessary part of
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the build, and that is trying to get some wires to go where you want them to go, um, and when you have a lot of
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obstacles in your way. So, if you guys have ever wanted to put something in your dash, whether that's a car stereo,
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um, you know, back in the day when everybody was installing that on their own, it's pretty simple. The dashes had
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lots of room. Um, they weren't too overdesigned. Uh, but nowadays,
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these dashes are extremely complicated. They have tons of layers. They have tons of equipment and electrical components.
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Um, I've done a lot of installs over the years. Um, I can't tell you how many
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stereos or speakers or uh, stuff I've done over the years. So, I'm really
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familiar with taking things apart, putting it back together. However,
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the newer the vans get, um, the more, uh, complex these dashes are. So, I've
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already taken apart probably six pieces of the dash that you don't see on camera right now. And um I'll put this back to
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my face just so you guys know. We're not looking at a photo. So, we're going to hop in the van and we're going to wire
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two things. We're going to wire the rear roof rack strobe light. Um then we're
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going to wire the uh blind spot camera. So, we have two blind spot uh we have three blind spot cameras. one in the
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back of the roof rack, driver side and passenger side that has been mounted to the sides of the van. Um, I don't have
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the uh extra cameras to show you guys that, so you'll just have to wait until we do the
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van uh tour. Um,
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but what we're going to do is just kind of walk you through getting this done tonight. So, I'm hoping I'm going to
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spend about two hours on this. um might be sooner. But a couple challenges that
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we're going to face is everything it's extremely tight. It's so tight that
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uh there's some places where a solar wire, which is a like a 10 gauge wire, kind of
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will barely fit through. Um but I think I found a path. So in a perfect world, I
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wanted to put this underneath that mat. uh not the rubber mat, but the actual
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interior floor carpet. That's not going to be possible. Um
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because you got to be very careful. That transmission tunnel sometimes gets very hot. And so if you have some wires that
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a really thin gauge like our communication wires, uh power wires for the strobe light, I just don't want to
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risk that uh melting on a really hot road day. Um, believe it or not,
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especially in Texas, it's probably going to be super hot there. So, we're going to do a nice cable um
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surround and put that underneath the right passenger mat. Um, so it'll cover it, but we'll make a
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nice uh run there. I will try to get the video signal wires to run up under
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there. We'll we'll see if we can fit that. Uh but basically the red wire you see is the strobe light control
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and this is a traffic strobe light. So it's the orange amber lights that flash.
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Um the other wires are coming. They're like a BNC type connector for the video
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signal feed as well as the power. So yeah, we're just going to jump right
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in here and uh get started fishing the wires to the dash. Um, the
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end goal is to get to the very top part right there. And that is where we want
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to have the connector come out as well as the connectors for the van. So, I'm
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going to hop in the frame. Um, I checked the sound tonight.
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Okay. Yep. Sounds pretty good. So, I'm going to start over here. I've got my phone with me in case you guys
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have any questions. So, a couple things. Um,
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there's a reinforced base here. So, there's like a plastic plate and then a rubber like a uh there's like a metal
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plate and a plastic cap that covers these uh all these components here. Um,
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it's really interesting. So, my van, my personal van is a 2019.
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And every year that I work in these vans, uh whether it's a 2020, 22, 23, 24, even 25, this gets even more
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complex. Uh so much so that most these vans are optioned with this inverter that's over here. And this inverter is
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now instead of on a post right here that was kind of in the way. Um it's gone. the
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handbrake is gone thankfully because that uh if you have an older van, you
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have to have a handbrake relocation kit that lowers it so that the seat can swivel out of the way. Um so now that
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that's gone, it's much easier to work on these vans. Uh well, I say that we we
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wire something like this. Um, but then this base over here, if you
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look under here, we've got a big power inverter box. And so this inverter box
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is where um sometimes you want to put the gasoline fired labasto heater. Um,
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so obviously we wanted to keep this so that uh they could still use this right
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here as a plugin. Um, so we relocated the Wasto to the back of the van. And in my opinion, it's
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actually I think it's a better spot. Um, it does
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take up some room, but I think it's a better spot. So, we'll actually be
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uh removing this base. Um, we got two bolts here and they have to
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be loose and this has to rock back to get that plastic support pad back in here. But, we have it open right now so
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I can uh run these wires. Um,
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so we're going to run the wires. I'm going to come back. Um,
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well, I might do it right now. Get some some wire protection.
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[Music] So, we had to extend the communication
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cables for the strobe light about 20 feet. And
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the harnesses are only sold in uh 30in increments. So that would have been
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really silly to try and try and make that work.
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So, back here, um, it's pretty safe. We're not, nothing back here is actually
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looking too aggressive as far as damaging the wire. So, we're probably not going to
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cover that. But, we're going to cover some of this wire over here.
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And just heads up, this is probably going to be a very boring video. Um, but if you're having trouble with doing
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this, you can you can kind of see what I'm going through to uh to make this work in the
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best way that I think we can do it.
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So, this is just kind of like back in the day if you were installing a subwoofer in the back of your car. Um,
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and you had to run the power wire from the head unit all the way back or from the battery all the way back. Um,
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that's kind of what this reminds me of. But this is going to get us
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right past all this sharp uh supports for the dash. There's really
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sharp uh supports down here and then up here it gets nice and uh much easier.
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But yeah, there's a lot of layers to this dash. Um quite surprisingly
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since everything's designed on the computer, I mean they can really
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uh get everything really tight tolerance wise.
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Yeah, my goal tonight is I really want to get this checked off the list because
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from the passenger driver seat forward, everything's complete. So, we got the wiring, we got the bumper, we've got the
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strobe light switch on the left hand side at the driver's seat. Um, that's
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all finished, complete. Everything's buttoned up under the engine. As far as
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the additional fuse for that circuit, um, so not only are we doing the rear
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strobe lights on the roof, we did two front strobe lights. And those two front strobe lights I got from a website
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called super brightledds.com and they have a bunch of stuff. They've
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got a lot of, you know, automotive headlights that you can replace with a LED.
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Um, it's all plug-andplay. It even has the adap the uh the resistors that you can
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plug in so that um you don't get that warning sign when
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you're a warning light when you're turning your headlights on and off. I put them on my van, but I didn't put the
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resistor on there. So, you get like a little annoying chime when
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you first turn the lights on, but not too bad.
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So, what we want to do is we want to come to the bottom here. We're going to come up through this tight. And then the
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challenge is we got to get through this. Um, funny enough, you can't take this out
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without taking this whole front dash off. So, I've I've taken as much of the
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dash off without taking the whole dash out. So, as much access as I I can get.
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So, if you're wondering why a lot of uh upfitters they'll do wiring underneath the van, it's not really that they're
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kind of cheating and trying to get it done quick, although it does achieve that, but um it's really because there's
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just no place to wire anything. Um along this right side here over this wheel
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well and up through the dash. So, that's where I do the uh dash cam. So the wolf
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box, the wolf box is uh I wire it through this side.
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Um I'd say the only challenging thing about the wolf box is there's a GPS sensor, GPS speed sensor,
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and it needs to be mounted to the windshield. So, the way that you have to wire it, um,
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that wire has to go in a different direction than the other wires like the power wire or whatnot.
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Okay, so we got that done. So, now our wire is protected. So, as we're moving
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this around and installing it, we don't have to worry about goofing and
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messing the wire up. Now, I'm bundling this because I need to go
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under this wire that I put in the other day. There we
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go. Okay,
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let's see if I can
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back here.
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Okay. So, this is the part that I needed it to be protected. Um,
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it may go there, it may not. That's another challenge is there's a bunch of plastic protrusions
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on the piece that snaps in here. So, we're going to have to figure out where it wants to be. Um, I've also got
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this cable which is this needs to be
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extended. This is the power supply from the EcoFlow. Um, that way
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uh Jim doesn't have to power it from the cigarette lighter because that would not
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be that would not be a pro install. Um, so while I'm thinking about it, let me
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get some wire. I need to run it down to the bottom.
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So, we're just using this is extra wire I have in the shop. Uh the gauge of this wire is overkill.
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It's 14 gauge, but
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um so what we're going to use
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Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this and run down the path
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uh backwards. So, it's the path that I want to go. So, our next step is we're
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going to um we're going to take out this
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part here. This is the support bracket for the massive touchcreen.
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And also be very careful with your screws. Um, I always put the screws in the cup holders over here or in the door
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handles. This is where I like to keep them so I don't lose them or up here.
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I kind of have my own order of operations so it's kind of hard to explain.
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Just keep in mind most of all of these screws are going into all plastic
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fittings. It's just plastic on plastic on plastic held together with
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some coarse metal screws.
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And something that's kind of a no no you're not supposed to do um this seat
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when you unplug the airbag cable for the seat. Um
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you need to make sure that you don't turn the engine on uh nine times out of 10 you're going to
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be fine. But if you can help it, um, not turning the power on before you
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get everything plugged back in, cuz sometimes you'll have like a a nuisance fault. Um, okay. So, there's our
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bracket. So, we just want to have a You can take pictures of this um so you
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can remember where things go. So, but we're just going to lean this back
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and I need to come on this this I need to come up through here and come on this
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right side of this uh the stereo unit.
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And so this is where all the uh antennas and everything come through. Um
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thankfully it looks like it's only held in by two screws up here. I don't I don't need
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to take it all the way out. I just need enough room on this right side to get my plastic
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connector through and all these WGO connectors. So, this all this stuff is
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going to get hidden up behind there. So, that's what we got to try to
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we got to try to get in there.
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And take your time. Don't Don't rush this because you don't want to drop a screw.
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So, let's see. Okay, so that's giving us Yep, that's going to give us plenty of room.
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So, there's a plastic uh cable stay right here. We just want to have some
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steady force and just pull it straight back. We're gonna pop it back in in a second, but
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let's uh just want to get this out of our way. So, we gota remember there's a
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skinny slot here. So, we got plenty of room as far as getting our wires in. And there's some space right here. So,
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we just kind of want to uh So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to fish the power wire first. And that's
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going to kind of show you what the path is. So, the plan is I'm going to take the uh
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I'm either going to I don't know how I'm going to cut into this yet, this plastic piece. Um
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I'm still thinking about how I'm going to do that because I need I need to cut into this. There is a a key fob sensor
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right here. So, this is like a I think that I'm pretty it's got a picture of a key and there's the sensor down here.
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Um, so what I may do is
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there's going to be do a cutout over here. So, I may use a multi-tool to cut this
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out. Um, unfortunately the connector for the strobe is a rectangle. Um,
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and so we're probably going to have to I'll probably use a multi-tool. That'll be
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the neatest and cleanest way to do this. What's really cool is Jim has actually
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made this uh mount, this custom mount right here.
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And so I just need to get the wire through. And then I'm going to make a a U notch
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right here in the wood piece that he has. And that U notch is gonna allow for the controller,
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wherever I put the strobe controller. Um,
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so the goal is for the strobe controller to sit, it's got a little mounting
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bracket right here. And so the goal is to have it just neatly
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sit just like that. And then you can control it. And if you
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need to, you can slide it, unlock it, and touch it or something like that and
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lock it back in. That's the plan.
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So, this is a wire. This is just a fishing wire. I don't think this is was my first
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attempt, but uh this failed. So, we're going to take it out.
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Okay. So, we're going to take the power wire.
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And this is kind of fun because this is kind of showing us
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where we want the path to be. Um, there's no way to get across here
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where the AC vent is. There's a whole cartridge that comes in here and seals. Uh, so we can't do that. So, I'm going
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to tuck this behind here. And then
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this is going to come around like that.
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Just going to get really close. And we're definitely going to make sure we wire some extra.
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Okay. So, we doubled over about two feet in the back. So, I feel good about where this is coming out. Um,
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so now now that we know this is where we want to be and we can cut it at any point over here. So I'm actually going
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to cut it uh let's see.
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Okay, so we doubled up. So we can probably cut it right here. Right. That's gonna give us
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plenty of plenty of room.
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Tuck that in over there. All right. So, now we're going to take this. We're not done.
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And we need to come around through here. And also
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try to keep the orientation of the wire flat and straight. um because you may
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find yourself getting into a knot and the knot is actually what keeps you from getting the wire where you want it
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instead of the diameter or thickness of the wire.
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And you can also help yourself like put a bend into it and that way we can
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push it down here. That bend is going to help us grab it at the bottom.
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Okay. So there we go with this one.
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So that
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Okay, that is our power wire. There's also our map to get us to
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our communication cable. for the strobe light.
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Need to snip off all these little ends here.
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Yeah, Linda. I was I was that kid. I I uh I got my first car in high school. It
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was a S10 Blazer. It's a 93.
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And the first thing I did was I took everything apart.
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The first thing I put into the van was I mean the my first car was a stereo
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system, but I didn't have money to put a stereo in. So, I took my home theater
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system in my house and I somehow wired it into the van with like a little inverter and had a household
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sub just sitting in the back of the van uh back of the car. That was funny.
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All right, so we got a connection cable here that's going to be in our way.
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Let's see if we can get this pulled out.
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All right. So, this one this one had like a little
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get. So, this one has uh one of these wire fittings where you slide it. You
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slide it onto like this plastic thing and it clicks. So, I just pulled it up and pulled it up out of the way.
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So, now let's see if we can gently
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bring it around here and then up. So, so right here there's no room. As you can see, there's it's uh no room. So, since
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these cables are here, there's a 99% chance that we're going to be able to
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bring those cables over this piece of plastic and they're still going to be okay.
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So, so everything is, you know, it's custom. Um, it might
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work, it might not work. Just got to try. Just like the dinette
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in the back when I was working on it yesterday. Each drawer was perfectly
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identical. Um, yet when I installed the second one, it uh it had a really bad bind and I had
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to take it apart this morning and cut an eighth of an inch off of the top and
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side of all the drawers. I mean, not all of them, but just one set.
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Now, I got to be really careful here because
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I need to make sure that none of these wires come out of these WGO connectors.
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There we go. Slow and steady. Let's check these. Make sure they didn't pop open.
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Now, you may be asking, why the heck did I use WGO connectors since they're so bulky?
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They just make a very positive connection to the wire. And if I went through and individually crimped every
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single one of these, um, I find that those crimpers that smash, the reason I
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don't like them is sometimes they cut through, uh, the plastic connector and the the
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wire the wires exposed from the connector and they can touch each other and short. So,
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and I know some people may argue with me on that, but uh
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I'm only doing it because it guarantees a good connection. So, it's okay. We
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have we have plenty of room over here, too. We're going to hide all these under here. So, these will not be up here.
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Just heads up. Um so, this is just going to We're just
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going to put these right there. Um, let's just get a Now we need to get
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a feel for how this is going to
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hang out with this stereo guy here.
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All
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right. So, feel pretty good. Let's see if I can get that a little bit
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more out of the way.
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Okay. So, that I feel much better about that. That's good. Okay.
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Um,
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let's see here. So, I had the ability to put these wires behind this wire.
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So, we're going to take this back out.
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Yeah. Don't Don't try to cheat on this. It'll bite you in the butt later.
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All right. So now let's try that again. So now that wire is behind here because
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remember we put this whole dash back. We need low profile as possible.
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And I almost goofed. That's why I like the live stream. When I start talking
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through stuff, I remember things.
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It's like my own checklist. All right. What did I forget? I forgot
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the monitor communication cables for the
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the video video feed. So, this first one here is coming from
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this one. We need to have a little bit of slack in the back. This one is coming from uh
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uh this one's coming from the passenger passenger side.
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Um so we're going to couple all these
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together if we can. And the reason I'm going to do that is
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If anything happens in the future, everything's going in one place. It's
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not going in multiple places. So,
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this will be easier to to troubleshoot. Um,
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we don't have to be too perfect on, um,
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color coding or labeling the cable because
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uh, we we only have three cameras. So, if one's not the camera view you want,
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just just switch it. Now, I'm only giving myself this much slack for the screen because again, we
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got to manage how much cables we're stuffing on top of this. There's there's room, but there's not that much room.
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Um, now a couple of these cables. This is
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this is the driver. Uh, I'm hoping that it's going to fit. I
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may not fit reach because it's not it's not that much cable left.
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[Music] I think we have just enough.
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All right, let's see here.
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[Music] Um,
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trying to plan ahead here.
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Okay. So, now that wire is protected, let's see
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how we can get this wire closer.
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All right. So, you're gonna have to stay right there. Let's see.
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We might have just enough. Um, before I start stuffing that, let's
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let's get We need to get this slack out of this cable.
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And I should be able to take up all the slack.
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So, I need this plastic protector right there. I need to hold
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this here. That's
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Okay.
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Feels pretty good right there. There's also stuff uh this tape called felt tape
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and it's just what it sounds. It's sticky felt back tape. And I use it for all kinds of stuff. So if I'm running a
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wire over a surface that I think might be
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abrasive over time, then I just I just go ahead and do it.
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All right, that looks good. This wire
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looks good.
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Power wire. Okay, let's see if we can get this one in
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here. This one is driver driver camera.
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So, this is the one that's going to be a challenge. Um,
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we need more, but we don't have more.
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Let's see. All right.
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So, we can get it really, really close. It's just going to be.
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So, that's gonna Yeah. Does it come directly out of the tray into the
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the camera? I think we're okay on that.
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We just got to watch it down here when that plastic piece comes down because don't really have
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that much slack. All right. And the last wire is our rear camera wire.
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which is gigantic. Extremely long.
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Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Feel free to uh replay the stream.
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We'll see you guys tomorrow. I think I'm live streaming tomorrow. We're
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I'm connecting the I'm working on the the rear water tank.
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So, that's the plan.
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Okay. So, that should be our last wire that's going in here.
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Okay. The question here is that's that one's that one's extremely long.
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[Music]
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Let's see. Well,
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we just got to try it out.
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Now, I'm not going to go through here and zip tie all these. Uh if I need to
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come back, which it's completely possible the next five seconds, I don't want to
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have to undo everything. All right. So, this is going to we're
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going to be able to see here in a second how much room we actually have to
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work with
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We're trying to get these to be vertical on the side.
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Okay. And we want to be able to feel like they're not being obstructed or pinched.
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Very, very, very important. And I think we
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knock on wood. Got the hardest part out of the way.
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All right. So, I do still feel some resistance in here. Let's see the heck
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is going on.
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So, I think that's just the unit itself. I don't think that's
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anything that I'm doing. There's That's not my wires over here that's doing that.
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Um, okay. Do the wires feel nice and loose?
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Yep. They feel they feel good. They're out of the way here.
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Um, all right. Let's put the
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receiver back in.
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And let's see. Wires feel good. to move them nice and easy.
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Okay. So, I might have to do
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A little dash surgery over here.
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So, have to take this back out.
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So, the plastic over here is covered up where I need the wires to
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come into this piece. I mean, I could
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a second. What is that?
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[Music] That might solve all of our problems. Look at that. Didn't know they could
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come out. So, there's a there's a vent grill behind here.
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Didn't know it was removable.
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One more snap.
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Look at that. This grill, it's a ventilation grill.
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And that is where all my wires going to come out. And then I can stuff them back in
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this way. And uh that is
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that is excellent. I could not ask for a better better surprise. That is so cool. Okay.
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Very very good. Yeah. Yeah. So now we can take all the put all these wires back here.
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Um we're going to leave this one. We won't put this one in there yet.
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We will do all these cables.
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See this one can just come out. go right into the screen. Um,
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yeah, this is fantastic. This this will actually we won't have to we won't have to cut
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through the key fob uh plastic.
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Yeah, that's an easy fix to make it look nice later. Um,
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the goal is for me to put the dash back together and then we'll we can do all this
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connection and cable management. Um, so yeah. So, see I can you guys can't see
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this, but there's a whole window the size of this back here. And that that's
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how I can stuff all the wires in. I won't have to cut all this plastic out.
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Just have all the communications cables come on the back. And then what I'll probably do is neatly cut this
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right here between these snaps. And then once I stuff all the wires in,
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only necessary wires will actually come through this. Um, or not, maybe we just
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leave this off. Um,
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we we'll probably put I'll probably modify it and put it back on. All right, that's very good. Okay, so
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now we can let's get this reassembled.
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We're not We're not finished yet. We got a lot stuff to a lot of plastic to put back on.
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All right.
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Um, let's put this snap in here.
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So, I think I want this stuff to come around here. So, I'm doing an S shape.
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I'm renapping in this factory wire here. And this S shape, I'm hoping that this
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cover will go over this. Just like that.
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So, let's see. It's going to be tricky though because we got to
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not smush this wire.
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Okay. All right. Excellent. Perfect. So, now
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we have that S curve coming through here. And this is designed to go over a wire. So, this is perfect. So everything
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looks like um it's where it wants to be. The only
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concern is I pulled the wire uh because I needed more room.
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Now my short wire
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is even shorter. H.
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Let's see here.
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Oh, that's right. Okay. I forgot about that. I have so much extra wire.
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All right. We're fine. We're fine. Look at that. I got all this extra wire. Um,
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perfect. We can keep this off to stuff all our wires in here.
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And then we'll keep this
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uh to connect everything and test. And then we'll That's perfect. Okay.
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Forgot I had all the slack from the monitor. Okay,
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we're doing better than I anticipated. That's great. Okay, we can keep going.
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So, I pinch my finger. All right.
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grabbing a band-aid for my finger. I moved the uh
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that board and pinched my finger on it. It literally sat on my finger between
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the board and the seat
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anticipating that I was going to get cut by the plastic and I got cut by my
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seat. So, that's all good.
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All right, we're back. Try not to do that again.
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So, this thing's good.
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Wires are clear.
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Just want to tighten this one down first.
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Wires are still good. Excellent.
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Okay, this bracket that we're putting in, this is what holds uh we got the two
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cables for the touchcreen.
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So after this we've got the um not the touchcreen goes in. I think
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the order is the vents. So we got the vents go in.
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See I'm already getting tired. So only downside when you work with your
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hands all day. They start to give up on you.
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Okay. Um,
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those look like they're going to be fine. That's fine. Let's go get our vents and like pop them
1:00:22
back in. And just a pro tip, if you're pulling
1:00:28
the dash apart, everything comes out directly toward you. You don't want to
1:00:34
pop anything off at an angle. That's that's going to uh
1:00:39
that will quickly just break it. Um
1:00:48
I got this electric leaf blower. I'm going to blow off this thing. It might be loud loud for just a second.
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All right. So, this is the panel that controls all the
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uh hazard volume, heated mirrors, parking, camera.
1:01:22
So, we're going to put this in um or feeding through these two wires for the
1:01:27
touchcreen. The touchcreen comes vertical when it
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pops in. It's held in by three screws, but we have these two cables here and
1:01:40
they got like a little grommet down here. So, going to try to
1:01:46
put those back where they want to go. Um, you got a little black plug that
1:01:51
goes on the bottom. Um,
1:01:56
one of these. Okay, these two, there's a different section. This is a USB connector. I think it's power.
1:02:04
So, the black connector here goes on the bottom.
1:02:09
The gray connector goes above it.
1:02:15
And what we want to do is see what the space looks like over here
1:02:24
where our wires came in. And it looks like we're going to be all
1:02:30
right. Okay. So that that's going in just like that.
1:02:39
Okay. And the way that you pop these in is it's forward. It's very satisfying
1:02:46
forward click. Um, and don't forget you've got these tabs up here on the
1:02:51
top. And you can visually look. Um,
1:02:57
so actually I'm glad that I said that. So some of these when you pull this out will
1:03:03
bend. And this one right here, this one right here bent. So,
1:03:13
it's okay. It's It's inevitable that's going to happen. You just need to bend
1:03:18
it back into place so that it accepts the clip.
1:03:26
So, get a flathead screwdriver. I know you guys can't zoom in and see this, but when you bend a clip, the way I'm
1:03:33
explaining it, you'll kind of understand. So, like there's these there's like a mouth of the clip. And what happens is
1:03:39
the top will like it's like this and it'll bend backwards and you need to bend it back in.
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Um, I think that one's going to be
1:04:28
See if I can pop it
1:05:46
The easiest way to explain it is you just want this clip to look like the other clips.
1:06:19
Okay. You might not get it perfect, but try to get it as best as you can.
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All
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right.
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Okay. So get centered and then just do a straight push
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just like that.
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Um, do I want to put the screen in now?
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We'll put the screen in now.
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All right. So, there's our screws for the screen. Let me go grab the screen.
1:08:15
Okay. So, you got two connections, pink plug and a black plug.
1:08:35
I think.
1:08:46
And the way this goes in is we're going to get the wires snug pushed back there.
1:08:51
And then there's three holes here and three pegs.
1:08:57
And we want to get the pegs in alignment.
1:09:05
And there you go. It just seats into place.
1:09:12
And then there's like a little decorative piece of plastic that goes
1:09:18
over the top that I have put somewhere.
1:09:29
I usually hide all these delicate pieces so that I don't break them.
1:09:36
Okay.
1:09:49
Well, we can't put it in anyway because we got to um
1:09:54
put the screws in first.
1:10:04
There's one on the top left and right hand side.
1:10:16
There's that piece of tape. So, I usually use like a piece of masking tape for
1:10:23
if you had a magnetic screwdriver or nut driver that would work. But
1:10:31
this bit that I'm using is not magnetized. So, if you just use a piece of masking
1:10:36
tape, it'll hold the screw on there.
1:10:58
So just like that.
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Okay. All right. That is in place.
1:13:54
All right, there is our plastic for the screen.
1:14:02
And we've got our cup holders, our plastic adapter,
1:14:09
and our See, we got our dash.
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Okay, we got it all. Here we go.
1:14:34
This is what holds the cup holder. We have the cup holder.
1:14:44
Then we have this bottom piece that hides all the stuff in the
1:14:49
bottom. Um,
1:14:56
so I believe that went on. So this might be a challenge tonight. I might pause
1:15:02
here in a second because this is probably what I'm going to have
1:15:08
to. So I'm going to have to modify that
1:15:13
before I can put this back in.
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Yep. Yep. Yep. That goes in. This has got to go on top.
1:15:44
All
1:15:56
right.
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Okay, that's perfect. That's exactly where I wanted to get tonight. Um,
1:16:10
checks the box off for me. So, what I'm going to have to do next is tomorrow I'm going to get some more wire loom and I'm
1:16:17
going to bundle these wires up here neatly and make sure that this bottom piece is actually going to be able to
1:16:23
bolt back in place. Then our center console can go pop back in. Um, after
1:16:30
that pops back in, we can put this on the cup holder and we're done with this
1:16:38
dash area. Then we'll move back to the center area. Um, we'll have to lift up the seat base, get our wires managed
1:16:45
down here, and then the front seat forward will be
1:16:51
done from a technical perspective. So, we'll get the back of the van done where the dinette is. The front is done. Now,
1:16:58
we'll just focus on finish up the middle, which is doing just fine. And yeah, we'll keep on trucking here. All
1:17:05
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