How NOT to Vanlife - 88 Ford Econoline van build out tour

Do you want to see how Ash and Callan do van life? Check it out on this episode of How Not to Highline. Hi I'm Ryan Jinks and welcome to our van life series that we are doing here at GGBY 2019. We're going to go through a lot of people's vans and see what they like and don't like about their vans. This episode is sponsored by Base Jump Moab. What are you making there Ash? Um eggs and beans. Eggs and beans. So you guys cook everything on this table here? Yeah mostly. Okay what if what happens if it's raining? Okay her name is Boris right? Yeah Boris yeah. Yeah was it always Boris? You you bought the van like this right? Bought the van then we just named it Boris. You named it Boris okay and what year is it? 88. Older than me yeah. 88? Yeah. Wow older than me. Um does it have a new motor or anything or is it? I think it's all pretty old it's all original. Yeah I think it's all coffee over it. Nice is that uh one of your working tables right there? Yeah. Your hood? That's the hood. Okay what do you like about your van? The most thing I like is the gear lever just here you can chuck it into you gotta click find the clicks. What parts of your van do you like about uh your living space? The living space we've got plenty of tables good tables in there. Show me. Just this little table area here with all the drawers. Okay. Lovely I think. Nice working space you got a table there. Yeah. What's this? I had some stools for it. That's a fridge. DC fridge? Yeah. What kind? Coleman I don't know yeah 12 volt. Okay. Does the job a little cooler. Where's your where's your battery setup? Uh under the hood I got two batteries. Oh that's it? Yeah. It's just all under the hood? All under the hood. Can you pop it? I'd like to see that. You can start the car from under the hood too. There you go that's how you start the car. Really? Or not. I gotta turn the key on. Oh okay. The key's always stuck in the ignition too. So you'll never lose your keys? Yeah. Okay so you have one battery here. Yep. And one battery here. And the person who built this van. Yep. Designed it like this or did it come like this? I think I put the second battery in just here. Okay. And that was it. That's all they've done. Nice and that that has enough juice to keep your refrigerator going? Yeah on and off for like three four days and then go for a little drive. What do you do you just start up your van again? Yeah start it up. And what happens if you run it too long will your van die? Nah it's isolated. Got an isolator switch here. It isolates the two batteries and there's a solenoid down here Nice. Which one starts your van? This one. This one. Okay. That's why this is connected to them. Gotcha. And then this one basically powers your your other stuff? Yeah all my other stuff yeah. Is your fridge the only electrical you got in there? Or do you have like phone charging stations? Yeah I just charge the phone off it all like all the inverter. Where at? Where's your inverter? So I got a little 12 volt here. She caught on fire once actually. She caught on fire? The wires um touched in there. That's what this smoke stuff is here. Whoa. I was just driving and that's why that's bent because I just kicked it out. Whoa you kicked it out while you were driving? Well I stopped the car pulled over and yeah yeah let's get it. Um okay and that's what you use to charge your devices? Yeah it charges everything. Got a laptop on charge now. Nice. I charge a drone on there everything. Wow. Yeah. Well that's pretty powerful then. Yeah she does the job. Yeah no I I just struggle with my battery setup. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't use too much power so. You have a stowaway. What's up guys? Stealing some water here from the van. So your so your bed is sideways? Yeah I'm a pretty tall bloke too. Yeah. Yeah. So how does that work for you guys? Yeah we're gonna go I'm gonna go like on the angle full feet that way heading that near that pillow. Okay. And Ash is right next to me because she's pretty little. Good thing she's little. Yeah. And is that just storage up there? Yeah a little storage. There was speakers there but I took them out for more storage. That's a good idea. Yeah. One funny thing no door handle on here. The door handle's missing so I've got to pop open it. Through the window? Through the window every time. The back one doesn't open either so we've got a little pop pop it out through the back as well. Crawl through. Okay that's pretty legit. Yeah. And you have quite a bit of storage underneath your bed? Yeah I got all the slackline stuff all the climbing stuff. Okay. Yeah. It's all under there. And tubs all nice and neat. Yeah. And you have um you just one big bin on this side? Yeah. Pop the back. So you can't open this one from the inside and you can't open this one from the outside. Yeah this one's broken. Gotcha. This whole mechanism I tried to fix it then I just got lazy. Okay. Yeah. Got the kerosene to burn the fire juggles. Yeah and I got me slackline stuff. All right. Nice soft shackle. Yeah. Yeah. Bojo made that. Brett. Nice. That's one of his ones. And the climbing stuff as well. That's good space. Yeah. Do you feel that um there's all the climbing stuff? You feel like this is enough space between your bed and the ceiling? Yeah. It's enough isn't it? I can sit up and everything. Okay. The handle is the best thing. Move around. What's the handle? Just yeah just I mean laying in bed moving around. Okay. Pull myself up and shift away. Yeah. Cool. It's ******* simple. How much you buy it for? Uh about three grand I think it was. Everything's set up. Nice. How long ago? January and we moved in in like late April. Okay. Still snowing on us in Canada. Burr. Yeah. What a time to start vanlifing. Yeah. Were you living in a van before then? Before this? Uh we were in a house before that. Been in Australia. We were in a van for a while. Okay. Drove around Australia. It's been almost a year um vanlifing. Yeah. Just vanlifing and highlining and climbing. Yeah. You've been all over. Yeah. We were hanging out in Yosemite just a few weeks ago. Yeah. How many miles or kilometers does this have? Oh just ticked over 300,000 Ks. Wow. Yeah. It's getting there. It's getting there. Yeah it is. Bit of work. Well cool um if you could change one thing about it what would you change besides just better functioning doors and stuff? Yeah. More like design. I'll go to bed that way for sure. Okay. Then I would have had storage or this side. Gotcha. Less room to sit around but that's my favorite part as well. Yeah. Yeah. Sitting around there when it's rainy. Yeah. Does it feel cramped when it's rainy? Not really. We had uh when it was like windy in Zion we had five people in here. Oh wow. Jan and everyone we just all played cards and chilled out when it was windy and real cold. That's cool. Yeah. All right. That's the max people we've had in. That seems like an adventure. Yeah. Thanks buddy. No worries. All right looks like breakfast is almost ready. Um if you want to see more van life videos make sure you like, follow, and subscribe because we are going to do a bunch here at GGBY. Gobble gobble bitches. Yeah. If you want to come to this Highline Festival you can go to ggbygathering.org and come out in 2020. And don't forget to sign up for Base Jump Moab. Until next time. Cheers. Hey thanks for watching but don't be an highlining without going with somebody who knows what they're doing the first time you go out. We actually have available now the Highline University International which is A to Z everything you need to know before you go highlining. This teaches you how to use a highline that's already rigged. So let's talk about some leash management. That's the H0 course which is out right now and available at hownottohighline.com. 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