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hey guys welcome back to live stream tonight we're going to be finishing up taking out the bed of my Ford Transit so
on this left hand side uh a deer ran into the van so I was planning this summer to do
what I'm doing right now and I've got a opportunity to yesterday and today to work on this so
if you guys are wondering um how the bed was designed in the back of my van uh you'll be able to see it as I
disassemble it um earlier on in this build which was a long time
ago uh I didn't actually document how I bu built this um it was before I was
doing this fulltime so you get to see it kind of in Reverse so what we're working
with is a Ford Transit 2019 low roof 148 in and this platform
back here was where I had a full-size uh mattress uh for the bed of the vehicle
what I did in the last video is we took out the kitchen Galley um and toolbox
that was in there and tonight we're going to be taking out this uh the bed rails and support system and the reason
I'm doing this is the body shop in order to repair this van um and without having
to take apart the rear panels they're going to need access to uh behind the
wheel well here and as well as the inside of the B on both the driver um both areas on the driver side
so tonight what we're going to do is we're going to remove the bed and the partition panel in the middle of the the
van um that's the goal tonight so let's go ahead and hop over here and just get
started taking stuff apart um as usual if you guys have any questions uh just hop on in the chat I'd
be happy to answer them can anything to do with with Vans van building um happy
to answer that um got a different camera lens here that I'm working with so shot
might look better tonight
possibly so where we left off was we were taking off this
panel and this was uh what covered the refrigerator it had a
bit of the overhead shelving and had just had this really nice contour line
so the way that I got this contour line is uh I used a piece of foam
cut out the general shape and then all you do is push it in trace it out with a pencil uh cut it out and then you just
dial it in to you get it really nice once you're finished to take that like
um let's see what was it uh poly ISO uh anyway the pink foam you can get
like at Home Depot uh Lowe's has some but it's I think it's like a green color
anyway that gets you a nice uh template to trace out and then you can get this uh piece of wood cut out
and then upholstered so that's how this panel got
done so yesterday we finished up with getting all the uh rear Electronics
unplugged n NOA come here that's just me making
noise so we've got our battery battery monitor we just took it
out got our carbon oxide detector control for our diesel
heater and this van had just the simple Amazon one
installed which for DIY it's it's great um but if you're getting a professional
build uh I would only put in a Webasto or an SAR heater um just for reliability
and
safety so I'm going to hop in and get the rest of the uh little plastic fittings taken out
and then when I get down to the diesel heater tank in the back of the van what I'm going to do is I'm going to try to
resupport it I'm actually not going to completely remove it at the moment
so the goal of this is just to get the van set up to where the body shop can access the
interior and get those dents popped out and then kind of do their thing they're definitely going to have
to repaint the whole driver side uh portion of the van but yeah I just thought this video might
be interesting to you so that uh if you do have some significant damage to your van
this is something that you might have to consider doing
so in your van design um just having accessibility to stuff like this
sometimes it's not possible so sometimes you actually might have a van build where um this whole site is built in and
it just kind of comes with a territory and doing custom work um
so if you have something that's built in and you can't remove it uh that
shouldn't deter you from not doing the uh the build itself
this carpet that I'm pulling off this is just outdoor carpet gray um this stuff that's you know used
on bass boats uh outdoor porches super cheap easy to work with
it's pretty uh it's very thick so it's thicker than
Marathon fabric but it's good for DIY you can
pick it up at Lowe's Home Depot I think what I got specifically was Home
Depot
now the back of the van I built it with a ton of L brackets back here this uh before I did pocket hole
screws or the Craig jig type thing and in some cases uh even when you
do the Craig screw it's good to reinforce parts of your van
so for John and Susan's B for example uh a lot of their stuff was
um you know made like traditional cabinet making where wood glue cek
screws for all the joints but then when I installed it for safety purposes I put
uh I used L brackets um real chunky El brackets and bolted that into the van's
uh chassis itself and uh the flooring system
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okay so next part we're going to take these this bigger piece of fly wood out
so this is just one solid piece here not sure how much you can see it on the
camera this is the only piece covering our bed rails
if you notice I don't have any mold or anything like that on here this was not treated or anything
not sealed just raw wood with that carpet uh glued on top of
it so this is almost three or four years and uh you
know I've had all kinds of stuff on the bed the bed itself and only thing that's behind here is just a little bit of dirt
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okay and this is just a half inch half inch piece of
plywood and I think I had to come through the D door over here to get this
in and out
I do want to reuse the four-way stretch carpet so I'm trying not to completely destroy it
okay now you can see the bed rails now these are not ideal because these are two by or one by ones or 2 by
tws um you'd want to use probably a 2x4 or
even the Ikea method for a DIY as far as uh rails that go
across CU these are not the way that I did this um had to do
with clearance I had a speaker that I was transporting back and forth and this I
needed a half an inch so I couldn't turn the uh the width sideways and the transition where the
bed goes needed to be flat so when I take these out you'll see
what I'm talking about I have two uh 2 by tws on the left and right
hand side that are bolted into the chassis of the van and that is what I'm uh using to attach these pieces
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got a little frame over here that I used to hold the tank in place and just upholstered it
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so this just a simple it's just you know just plywood 2x4s 2 by
twos so you really can just do a really simple build
now I will have to address this tank uh I do need to remove it but I'm
going to do that
tomorrow so hopefully that will keep that in place until tomorrow
um take this tire out of here
and we're not going to be reusing this so uh we're not worried about stripping
anything or do anything like
that so yeah these bed rails are just plain old now these are weird these
are not 2x4s these are uh uh one by twos I guess you would
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it this was all done during the pandemic so uh 2x4s were a little wild pricewise
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now I still got a lot of wires back here that I'm going to have to kind of take care of one by one
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so you can see on this uh left side what we have is this wood Rail and if you were doing
something in your van just super simple there's are these uh holes drilled into the side of the
board Transit and you can actually take a bolt and a washer push it through the
backs side and then you can bolt in uh you can bolt I've done it with a 8020
reil so aluminum uh piece of angle iron wood and
it just get you a solid attachment point to build off of in this case we're
building off of it for the uh um for the bed system
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okay I'm back went to the other side of the shop uh let's see so this might be more challenging
than I thought cuz that fuel line has got fuel o in it
and want to see how I want to take it out without getting diesel all over the van
H this might be a short live stream guys so while I am working
on figuring out how to get this tank out if you guys have any questions put that
in the chat while I'm working on this uh little situation over here with a
diesel anyway so if you guys are just watching now we are disassembling my personal Ford Transit because we need to
do some uh body repairs after a encounter with a deer and uh yeah it's required me to
basically take take the build out of the van to have them have access to the inner sides of these uh panels to push
the dent out and actually do the repair correctly um it's not a superficial Dent
the deer kind of went down the whole entire side of the van so it kind of sucks but I wanted to got this van out anyway
because uh I'd like to be able to have my uh motorcycle come up in uh be
strapped down into the van and transport it instead of having a rear hitch mounted
transport so that's cool because we'll be putting a floor system like we do in all of our customer builds in here so
just clean floor um we're going to panel the walls
um I'm considering keeping this four-way stretch carpet uh visible in the
back um and but the bed system i' I'd like to have a bed system to where I can
still have a motorcycle in here and then have a bed over here maybe more like a bench
seat um that's the compromise you have with building van is you know do you want a
fixed bed do you want a bed that can be taken out so you can put furniture or you know stuff or do you want kind of
like a hybrid where you have this equipment in the van but you still have room to do your sleeping
Arrangement um you know for at least like two people on the left hand side
so we'll have to see where that's going to be uh how that's going to work
out um what to do
all right guys well what we're going to do is we're going to call it for tonight on this uh this little demo
um I'm going to get a I'm going to get some buckets and stuff set up so I can actually drain this diesel out of here
take the line off run the line through the panel I made it to where there's like one hole drilled in the panel
there's not like a a u Notch so I can't take the panel out unless I feed the
line through um so I'm going to handle that
we'll probably get back to this on Monday and so we'll check that off the
list we'll get this partition out of the way and then I'll show you guys uh how I mounted this bed rail um what's behind
these two panels and kind of what the plan is going forward cuz the van has to go to the body shop on Monday so
um yeah I might do some filming tomorrow all right guys that's going to be it uh
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