Jim

In the morning, we installed the window in the van behind the driver’s door. This is the window that I prepared yesterday for today’s install. My friend John came over and my wife, Elizabeth helped as well. I reviewed the installation process with them and what I had done yesterday. We then taped the template […]

I didn’t have the van in the morning, so I dedicated the day to preparing the driver’s side window for installation tomorrow. The window that I am installing is the CRL FW293L Ford Transit driver-side forward vented window. I really like the design of this window, and I think it will look great in the

Missed a day with personal meetings and tasks. Back at it today. In the morning I took the van into a local car stereo shop to have the following items installed; They will have the van until tomorrow, so today and tomorrow will be light days of doing a few items that can be done

I took eight days off for a trip to Wisconsin to visit family and attend a wedding. While there, I spent some time organizing my thoughts on the next steps for the van build. I also listed items that I wanted to research further before making a purchase (e.g., solar panels). Yesterday, I was home,

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