Jim

A sunny and cooler day to install the MaxxAir fan in the roof of the van. My friend Pat came over to help and was great with advice and assistance. Started at 9:00 with seting up everything on the roof. We had to move the plywood sheet back a little, and move one of the […]

I was hoping to install the MaxxAir fan this morning, but rain showers forced that to be postponed for one day. Instead, we worked inside the van and completed the rest of the insulation work that was started on Day #2. At least the rain gave me a leak test on the two holes I

I got an early start and mostly single handedly installed the shore power for the van. The shore power outlet will allow me to connect to an external electrical outlet to charge my van batteries. I’ll use this sometimes when I’m staying in a campsite with electrical power, or when I’m in someone’s driveway. This

I finally got a dry day to work on the van, so the project was to install the roof rack. The roof rack is a predecessor to installing the AC unit and the MaxAir fan, because you need to roof rack to sit on and work on. You don’t want to be sitting on the

I had Artie helping me for most of the day. It was a rainy morning, so we were working inside the van again. In the morning we spent 1 1/2 hours working on attaching the Kilmat sound deadening to the rest of the van. The only places that we have left to sound deaden are

I have had the van a week now, but only started building it today. I have been driving it around a lot to make sure there were no issues with the van before I started working on it. I drove it to Williamsburg, VA last weekend to participate in a two-day charity bike ride I

Ford really tries my patience. No communication about the status of the van at all. The dealer knows almost nothing, but keeps telling me that it will arrive “next week”. Like, “tomorrow never comes”. So, it ended up taking two months more than I thought, but on May 6th I finally took delivery of my