Campervan Build

Again today I was taking advantage of small time blocks between personal business to work on the van. In the late morning, I spent 1 1/2 hours working on the battery cables. First, I snaked the two battery cables through a loom to help protect them once they are installed. Then, I worked to route […]

I had a lot of appointments today that kept me away from working on the van. I was able to put together some small time blocks to make some progress. In the morning, I spent an hour finishing the routering of the shorter L-Track channel in the subfloor plywood. I didn’t make it wide enough

I was busy in the morning, so I didn’t get started until 1:00pm. And then, I only had a few hours before a church meeting. Fortunately, Artie was around to help me, so we made some good progress. With the subfloor in the van, we took the opportunity to mark up the sheets. First, we

Last night, I was reviewing some of the saved process videos that I had for future steps in the van build. I came across one on wrapping the front and rear columns in fabric, which is something I wanted to do. As I watched the video, I noticed that I would have to do that

I’m combining two days onto this blog post, because they were both short days On Friday night (the 6th), I removed the weights from the first seven joists that we had glued down the night before. I saw that they had slid around a little. Not much, about a 1/4″ to a 1/2″. The joists

It was a rainy day, so I couldn’t work on the van in the morning. I did some research on which unistrut channel to buy and what hardware I need for it. I’m calling one distributor tomorrow before making a decision and purchasing it. On the bright side, after 12 hours of rain, the window

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