OUTSIDE KITCHEN BROKE And The CampStove Flipped UPSIDE DOWN | Back To Van Life Home Base FOR REPAIRS

whoa what the heck a little fire on the that thing's still going a little fire on the ground put that out are you serious the fire's still going um we we uh we had a mishap my friends this little connection on the aircraft cable app for all these years gave away so that was attached to here holding everything up and i was actually using this piece here oh i don't want to stick in my food gross um to break this is partially frozen and i was pushing down on it and that broke thankfully all the food didn't go all over the ground i caught this in time but damn it and joseph made me this little thing here and it all bent up yeah it'll live another day a little cajun oh van life cooking in the dirt some of this himalayan salt mix on the top ground beef rice and asparagus outdoor table some of the outside all right as the sun's going down it's getting cold out there set out on the open road same old place you always used to go when you were young speeding through a 50 song like your dad before you didn't even notice the old man with silver hair sitting in his rocking chair a few really great days up here felt really nice to relax yesterday after dinner came in here watch movies and that was it for me yesterday much needed time time in the mountains for sure let's clean up the hose here before we move this morning and some people have asked about this hoodie it's not my hoodie it's a clothing brand from vancouver called van city all the birds are out hello springtime hello cruisy bear good morning buddy check this out i've been here for days and i didn't notice that there's a there's a gardening tool sitting here that's something that i plan on doing before we hit the road this year is to full-on reorganize the entire vehicle i was lying here in bed this morning thinking about a few ways to to fix my layout a bit i have a problem up here i keep my poo bucket and stuff here in the front and cruz uses that he lies his head and stuff on it but i seem to throw things in this area and now that i have those new window covers i would love to start using the swivel a bit more often because at night now i can cover the windows and then i've just gained an extra two feet of living space and gained a chair because when i'm parked out somewhere i don't like to swivel around leave all my lights on because i never really had a proper cover for my front window now i can actually start utilizing this chair so i want to start working on this area and in order to do that i want to reorganize everything inside of these drawers try to open up another compartment drawer here i have some things in here i'm hoping to maybe get rid of that bin entirely and in the very back of my van beside my fridge i got two cubby holes one is all bedding stuff the other one is full of hoodies i probably got like five or six hoodies back there three or four different jackets light jacket medium jacket medium light jacket medium heavy jacket heavy jacket puffy jacket i stock everything in my van that i would need in any form of weather you know me no matter where i am i like to always change it up i'm not usually the the same t-shirt and and same whatever kind of guy sure i may wear the same shorts every day but it's always different t-shirt different hoodie different shoes a little fashion part of me it's it's a little piece of who i am but i'm thinking maybe if i can open up one of those back cubbies on one side i can use the cubby as my laundry bin in the back there so when i have dirty laundry it just goes into that back right back there there's little those tall things inside of one of those would be my laundry cubby opening up this whole space for that kind of stuff yeah we got lots of projects to do before we hit the road this year and i know you've been hearing me talking about hitting the road a lot lately because i'm thinking about it lots i'm excited this year to spend a majority of my well forget it all of my summer travel in the big beautiful mountains here in british columbia maybe go all the way up north come on i'm really excited anyway we have lots of things we got to go do today cruzie you got your job done we're good to go all right it's hit the road don't forget the star link on the roof wow that lake looks incredible this morning steering wheel cover for the ambulance check spigots and then there's the little pin that i all right let's see how close of a color this is to the seats i got high hopes not bad so the steering wheel on this ambulance is a pretty nasty mess and it sucks because there's a huge dent on that there so i'm going to see if we can replace that with something whether it be just another ford logo or get something made for there yeah this will cover up that nastiness on steering wheel so there's only one piece out of here that i actually need but having an extra spigot is always a good idea because you never know when you're out in the back country somewhere and you step on that or break that it's good it's good to have all the extra pieces so all we need is the plug there we go it's the only red one but it's all good we're gonna need that let's fix let's fix this floppy door this thing this uh this malfunction of the uh aircraft cable now we got to remake another one of these thank goodness i just bought an aircraft cable setup for the shop seriously i just i just got in this stuff so what i did here is that's perfectly level then if i am ever sitting at a weird angle i put these in here so i just push this over the first little screw now it angles it upwards now if i'm on a really weird angle park somewhere you can crank that up so it's quite high so if your van's kind of tipped you can set this level and i carry extra screws with me so if i'm ever in a place where it's really unlevel i just go back one more screw and it'll lift that a little bit higher there's a little bit of rust encapsulator left in here and i'm also going to top coat all the non-rusty ones too just to protect them in the future just in case any moisture gets through the top plates that will be above them because i think that's what happened to the last ones a little bit of water leaked through nobody noticed and then it just pooled on top of the body mount and rusted while we got time i just want to make sure we protect all those little elements of this ambulance build i know rust has been a pretty big subject around here but you know it's just it's just a part of van life that i think not enough people talk about you know we do all that backcountry adventure stuff but the reality is the vehicles we build our homes in have metal and metal does rust so all i'm trying to do here is do as much rust prevention as i can to this ambulance to cut down on all that work later so these body mounts here like any body mount in any van you build into the body mounts once you put your floor on top of it whatever is underneath that floor you will hopefully never see again so do everything you can now to protect that floor paint it fill in every single screw hole from past owners and convert do any rust converter like i'm doing right now on anything that's a little bit rusty underneath your floor if you leave it alone it's going to come back and haunt you later and nobody wants to rip out their entire van build their floor all their cabinets everything just to get back to all the rust that's growing underneath it so if you can get ahead of that fight before you start at least well at least you tried anyway so what i did on these things is these got a rust converter put on there 48 hours ago well for me it's been three days and that will sit on there and convert all of the active rust and well pretty much stop it so this is a rust encapsulator so this will convert any rust on there that may not have been converted from the last step and this will create a watertight barrier and a full-blown protective top coat over it so if water does get back in there again something spilling on the floor that happens to get through my van floor get through the insulation get underneath the cap that'll be siliconed on here and get underneath there let's hope not but that's why these things rusted before i'm guessing from everything coming in and out of the back of the ambulance there was a lot of moisture from maybe the stretcher and stuff that came in out that's why those two right there were rusted but the rest of them are not just the highly active doors water got through the floor in the ambulance and rusted out the mounts i'm just trying to get ahead of that fight now all these switches work they click on they work these are running my lighting on the exterior of the vehicle this one lost its spring we're going to take this thing out and see if we can if we can fix that i have a replacement one here but this one's only got two prongs on the back so i think we're going to have to go through and take one of these switches out of uh i have another one of these panels boom just like oh what did i do that for i plugged it in there and i forgot to shove it through the hole here damn it let's go hey light bar is now working again simple simple little fix so this switch panel here i could probably cut it and turn it into a four switch panel or just keep this as extra extra switches if we need them all good sacrifice one to make one work i'm okay with that somebody asked me in the comments the other day how i put my binoculars keep a set of binoculars here just in case i see something off in the wilderness how i put it on there pretty easy i took the case and i just drilled four screws in each corner and it worked okay something else on my van that happened at the end of my travel season last year that i haven't fixed yet that's the sad excuse of a horn my van has i don't know what happened to it sounds like a drowning chicken listen to this thing even cruzie didn't care normally he would have freaked out about that loud noise he was like dad are you killing me a chicken to eat anyway long story short i bought myself another horn i hope this is the right one according to the part number it looks like it is correct and the horn is right in there okay i thought this would be a double horn let's hope this plug fits does this just upgrade my horn to a double horn let's go okay let's see if that works ready plug your ears here it comes wow that's way louder i got this on amazon it's an actual ford part and it says it was fitting mine this is way louder than my van's original horn so that has that extra little thing in there which i'm guessing would go into a hole but there is no hole on that one so we're just gonna knock that little top piece off and run the screw through there these fun little repairs these are awesome oh look at that oh why is it you hear that that horn's messed up too huh it sounded good like a second ago now it sounds messed up cruzie now i don't have to throw my middle finger up at so many people now we can just honk hey no more throwing the finger out the window bro hey buddy you okay are you sad was it more fun when i threw the middle finger out the window i know bro excuse me pardon me pardon me excuse me we're gonna need some fuel it's pretty cool to heat the shop with the same heaters that we heat our vans with pretty cool this one is dead in the water this is the one that we added this year that was last year's heater this one needs some repairs whoa just went over flowed that way these body mounts are looking nice look at that check out his collar i got this on amazon i put this on him when he's outside and then i can see him everywhere he goes but it's pretty unique so you would think that maybe this has a light in it it doesn't only this has a light in it and the led light points that way and lights up this part of the thing here let me show you it's just a piece of plastic and that light you see there is the light that's coming out of this side so when we plug this side in then this side will light up the color of that light see that way when he's outside i don't lose him i need to get one of these for the van or remember to take this with me when i'm on my summer travels this year but yeah man that's my uh don't lose the dog outside the shop kind of uh kind of device so tonight my plan was to actually head into the town over from here for the night tonight because i got a little bit of running around to do in the morning but you know what i think i think i'm just gonna stay in the shop it's like 9 30 at night hopefully you guys can see oh don't hit the mirror crumb these are all my shirt samples that need to get washed maybe that's tomorrow i'm pretty sure potatoes bacon and maple syrup is not good to eat before bed it's too hot in here i'm gonna open up that door for a minute or two it's way too warm in here still 21 it's still 21 degrees celsius in here still i've got the whoa look at the license plates all my license plates are glowing let some of that cool air in here and make for a better night's sleep anyway it is it's stuffy in here there's a pond around the shop or something there's a pile of frogs i got a horn in my van finally it's think about that when was that video that was probably october maybe october november december january february march took me five months to fix my horn anyway guys thanks for watching today's video but think about that from the backcountry this morning to being here in the shop repairing some things that we broke yesterday um feels good to have a space like this to repair those things and kind of awesome that i had everything i needed today to fix the aircraft cable stuff i just bought those things i love that about my shop that i've made sure that this thing is kitted out for everything that i personally would ever need to repair my home speaking of that there's a lot of things i need to do to this thing before we head out on my road trip there's uh some cabinets that are a little loose you could hear them banging around i need to re-secure those but i think before my road trip i might gut half the things out of here and recheck all my anchor points on all of my cabinets to make sure everything is secure before we head out on a big trip because i have access to all the tools here we might as well make sure everything is locked down and ready to go before we hit the road so we got a couple more months around the shop here which means i still have a pile of work more to do on the ambulance i fill up those windows that's next on my list anyway guys i'm going to bed late night see ya bye