Van Conversion Updates: Heater, Windows, & Cabinet Faces | Van Build Series

I'm back in the ATX my turn round two I was a little nervous coming into this one for some reason but uh since we got here gotten a lot of work done but what we've gotten done so far this trip is we got the heater put in so that bad boy is right up under the passenger seat this is the air this is where the heats gonna come out so that's a big move there I didn't film a whole ton about how to do it because I couldn't do it any better than some of the videos that I watched so we'll link a few of them below and some of the blog posts that we use it wasn't a painless situation there was a little hairy spots in there but it's in it's all hooked up it's hooked up to the the gas tank which that part was really easy so yeah we haven't tested it yet but once we get our electronic other electrical things in then we can give it a test and I hope it all works so second big thing that we're working on right now that we're in the middle of is putting in the very back windows [Music] so everything's going smooth with that we got both of them cut out so we were using the caulk gun which I bought the cheapest one of so we plot the we have a caulk gun and we were putting on the adhesive along the side and the cheap caulk gun the handle is it was just bending because the crap is so hard to get out so we were about halfway putting the bead on there about half of it on there and the caulk gun crept out on us so we're waiting on our my brother-in-law to get here with another call gun so we can finish those up before we pack up for tonight so show you what those look like they're all cut out right there ready to go right there what we also did was water tested the water here so we're doing a water test a leak test for the shower and some of the other line here so here we go running water in the shower but what we're doing is before we button up and close up all the plumbing there for the shower we wanted to run a water test to see any kind of leaks things like that so the water that the pipes from the shower are running through this dresser here up under it and then down the back here and we have a water hose connected to for the test so this is us from the city water and so it's a hundred pounds of pressure running into these pipes which is on the high end of water pressure and so once we have our water hooked in it'll be around sixty pounds of water pressure so it won't be this high a pressure and so if it can pass this test it should be able to pass the sixty pounds we got a little leakage going on right here in the shower mixer but we'll get it figured out also by the way I was super impressed with all the work that Katherine did last time she was here like the whole like structure of the inside of the van is all in so cool can't wipe the smile off my face because of it it's just it's like every I keep saying it was becoming more and more real so man I'm getting pumped and I can't wait for the first time we get to sleep in here and we're out in the middle of nowhere and just enjoying it so it's gonna be fun and it's it's been a tough process but it's moving along okay so it's the end of day two of my second visit here I've got some big stuff done so we got that heater put in like I said and we've got these back windows in check them out and see myself and them look good so happy with this this oh oh this is gonna be so much better to drive with see out the back now whoo all right so here's our first project of today we're making the face of this cabinet here so we measure it and cut out the top bottom and left and right sides and then we use what's called a Kreg jig to make these pocket holes here so you drill it out and then you screw in the screw and all four corners there have that pop it in place and it looks like the face of a cabinet [Music] okay so here's our dresser got the face on and we've got the supports or doors so the track so the drawers will go along here and got three drawers going on there so here's the dresser with the face on and the supports for the drawer tracks on the inside there and then the butcher block on top that will cut down the fit and stain and make look real nice pretty today was one of those days where all the work we did is minuscule detail so it doesn't look like we got a lot done but spent hours on all this stuff so like I showed earlier we got the face of the cabinet on and the where the supports for the sliders are gonna go for the drawers so that was the first part of today and then the second part mainly was we got started on the bench seats here so what we got going is basically a support system going here for the bench top okay so it's gonna sit on that lip there and the cushions are go on top of that but you'll be able to lift the bench up right there set it back down get to all the goodies that are under there right so we got that going all right that's glued and clamped in right now and then the next time or soon we'll get to the other side well that's a wrap on my second trip down here very productive three days got the heater put in under the passenger seat here the face of the dresser there with some of the drawers ready to get going in there and also the back windows which I'm probably most excited about that because we can see out the back when we're driving now and and then started working on the benches back there so very productive I'm very happy with what we got done next up Katherine's coming next week I think and then I'm coming a couple days later and we'll be tag-teaming the work on briskets oh that's awesome things should get picking up even more I will be here for the Memorial Day weekend and and things are starting to come together so it's awesome and exciting and we'll see you then [Music] you