Jim

I was only able to work in the morning and was focused on the floor of the van. I started out with Artie helping me and he started working on applying Kilmat sound deadening to the floor of the van, being careful not to put Kilmat where the joists were going. While Artie worked on […]

Today was a day to work on the floor. I started by driving an hour down to my daughter-in-law, Lena’s house to use her planer. I had to plane down some half inch baltic birch plywood strips to use them as spacers under the joists in my floor. That is a lot, so let me

Beautiful weather for working on the van. I had most of the morning open and was able to complete the installation of the deadbolt locks on the rear doors. Here are some pictures. I tested the lock and it works great. When I lock the van from the key fob, the deadbolt throws in the

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