 Good morning ladies and gentlemen from Tucson, Arizona got some exciting things to share today Exciting thing number one to share. I'm gonna attempt to get this all buttoned up. I realized I had an issue here I don't know if this was pressing out or what but the wood was kind of jogging out. So instead of having a nice vertical Support system it was kind of bowing out a little bit. So I caught that yesterday I Used a variety of tools. I chiseled this out. I tried to use a multi tool that will kind of be hidden by the Piece of cedar so Can touch that up or something. I don't know no big deal. I'm not gonna cry over spilt milk. This goes over this I'm gonna install this next That is to hide all that nonsense Use a couple cap cabinet screws right into the blocks to secure it and then I'm gonna cut a new piece here And run it across and attempt to make that perfectly vertical as or as much as I can Also, thank you to the guys out there who have been using my Amazon store That's been helping a little bit Amazon does pay a very small Commission, I don't know what it is just a couple few points or something like that percentage points That is where I have all sorts of stuff or have lots of the stuff. I've ordered stuff. I use stuff I like things like, you know a fuse block or radio or You know fans that I'm installing in the back with the on-off switch Lots and lots of things doesn't cost you guys anything extra Like I said, it's just a little commission of Amazon pays So that is always in every single video if you just hit that down arrow It'll it'll open up, you know more information. So yeah, check it out there use it Love it. Thank you guys in advance I'm gonna try and kick butt because I only have a about a week left here in in Arizona before takeoff and I'll be coming back here late May and then try to get out of here by June It's heating up out here and it makes me very afraid of things. You see that those are flowers on a saguaro cactus I am here way too late You're preaching the choir if you tell me this has been taking a long time. I already know So I dreamt up this little idea that's gonna go like that, but on the other side, that's a flagpole holder so I Painted before welding which shouldn't really do but anyways, that's how I did it I did that because well, I gotta sand this down anyways because this was an afterthought The garage is looking pretty good pretty empty. I'm gonna snag one of these one by twos and I'm trying to finish up the wire chase right now. Also once I get back on the road I'm gonna have a slight variation of what I've been doing before a New fun idea so stay tuned for that I'm not really going to give any details, but you will soon find out if I So it's still in the planning phases Just a kind of new fun idea to keep things fresh and And all that for bus number two which I still don't have a name for so if you have any suggestions Throw them in the comments right now, and I'll take a peek. All right, and there we have it secured with two cabinet screws It's like magic It's done and you know the funny part was I Sanded down some of this a little bit where this cable is this big cable is And the majority the problem was actually the foam so I kind of did a bunch of work for nothing Well, not really nothing because that was a little bit in the way, but yeah Just want to get this Perfectly straight so it matches up well with this and then I'll continue on on top of there all the way there and This whole thing will be one giant LED on both sides actually Front to back on both sides and actually connect it in the front and I know it's really hard to Know what to order sometimes so all of this like I said is on my Amazon store Link in this video But yeah, that's where you can get the exact same stuff that I ordered from the exact same cellar as you can tell It's a little hot sweating But super handy for stuff like that it takes out all the hours of guesswork research that I had to do and All the people that I spoke to An expert in LEDs actually set me up with that whole system. So that is yours To enjoy and to purchase all right now moving on I I Installed stain cut pre-drilled tapped and cabinet screwed my way To finishing this side. I also have this little I'm gonna call it an extension cord LED Sneaking through that corner This whole panel looks ready to go over here. I'm still waiting on Something I'm waiting on the top piece. I had a little issue Yesterday cut out that chiseled out that just to make it totally flush Against the wall as much as possible and then it stopped about here This morning When I recut it I think And before this was installed. So this is actually now going to go all the way there on the top The bottom part is going to be covered with wood Up to here and I'm not sure what to do quite yet on the bottom Yeah, in a perfect world I think I would I Don't know have this go all the way there and have the wires go behind somehow I'm not I'm not sure I might fiddle with that right now and see if I can come up with a solution What was slowing me down was the couch cushions They called me and they said hey your cushions are done And the cushions are done. So this is the color. This is a copper brown It is a marine grade Vinyl I have the bottom cushion for this other side But there's a little mix up and so they made actually two bottom pieces This is 25 and this is 12 so I have two 25 Not a 25 and a 12, but anyways it should look like this. I'll get The whole rest of the stuff done this week this part put up. I'll make it look nice and You know showable Like I said, we'll get all these things covered up here, but yeah quickly coming together Glenn and I Did the I mean we wouldn't know what to call this wire chase. I'm calling it It's gonna have LEDs behind it So this was nice and vertical here, but I noticed that It wasn't as wide I see my finger can barely fit in there and You know, yeah, so anyways, it's because this Wood was further away, and I didn't yeah, so anyways just forget that it shouldn't it's not gonna make a big difference indirect lighting anyways Just gonna be a little bit difficult to slide the LEDs through Then over here. We'll pick this up I'll have to touch this up. Also. I wasn't super I Wasn't paying attention to the wood that was on the bottom side But anyways, I'll make a piece of wood the same height continue it over to this LED Extension cord I'm calling it which goes over to the other side, and then this will have indirect lighting also So both sides will have LEDs from front to back the power source is there goes to a little extension cord to here and then ends right there so anyways, let's pick up tomorrow and Tomorrow I'm gonna probably paint this touch up some spots and maybe install the two fans there and Some other stuff on the inside Okay picking up where I left off the day or day before It was yesterday put in the fuel level Okay, I finally brought over the armrests. This looks complete so for The couple people who cringed at the site of exposed wires That piece is right there. That's nothing to do with the wires, but all the wires are hidden So can I get a thumbs up for that please? You know how long this has been exposed. I feel like we're making major strides here in this bus build and to be quite honest I'm very happy it looks Very very polished, and it looks like a extremely high quality build which makes me happy Because people will appreciate all the work that's gone into this now the armrest over here today still got to clean up the bottom part which has some I Don't know teardrops on it But this is what the cushion is gonna look like I pulled the bottom of the cushion out a little bit to mimic a Slant I could create a slant with like a pool noodle or something just kind of bump that out Just so it's maybe a bit more comfortable. Maybe I don't know these are called bolsters I just learned that the other day, but otherwise I am extremely happy with how this looks and Obviously we have some sun and some shade so it's a little hard to Here we go. I feel like that's a pretty good color match right there We went with trying to match the lighter colors instead of the dark Because there's very few dark colors in here, and there's a lot of of lighter colors Light well compared to like dark dark, right? This is a lighter color. This is mostly a lighter color This is where it mixes more so than anywhere else But it was either this or like a really dark chocolate brown, and I felt like this was I don't know I went with this not to explain myself the other option. I was thinking of was red to match the outside of the bus, but Nothing else in here screams look at me besides a high quality craftsmanship of a wander boom and read and mojo bus and Everyone else that's helped me on this Ronnie with the floors On and on and on Steve with the benches and anyways you get the idea But yeah, so this is a color I end up going with in a perfect world I would love to match the driver's seat But I don't have a driver's seat yet. This one is damaged So as Fun as it is to drive it does have a swivel seat, but it just wiggles like crazy and makes me feel like I'm gonna tip over the bus when really it's just my chair No figure All right, I went ahead and cut open the hole larger I figured it'd be easier to drop this in and try and move an 800 pound tank or try to Move all the fuel again. It takes a long time hours. This took me 20 minutes max So anyways, I have an 18 inch tank From the bottom side here down to there. It's about 17 17 and an eighth They say leave it off the bottom about an inch. I have some more between three quarters and seven eighths and You can see the diagram here coolant goes in coolant goes out and heats the tank And also is an inline heater for the fuel In this case is going to be vegetable oil or diesel if I decide to put it in there So the orientation is going to be like that I may swap this fuel Elbow around to here and have everything kind of grouped up together But I'm going to go ahead and install relatively simple I have a push fittings hose barb Which connect into there. I'll show you later. They're pretty simple I don't know where they are currently, but here they are So those are not removable from the hose itself. You don't need a hose clamp. You push them on once That's it. They swivel at the bottom so I can tighten them on the threads here All right This is This is my hot fox This is installed I went ahead and um These are all new hoses I thought it'd be easier to um Wrench them in with access so I decided these are very hard to push on by the way So Yeah, went ahead pushed the hoses on Screwed them in With these fuel sending units, there's only one direction that The screws go into Which doesn't matter when you have um Some big gaping holes like this But it does matter for the gasket which is under it So If it doesn't work in all five positions like this you need to flip it over um That's what I've learned From these projects. So um Yeah, so this is what This is what it looks like. I did end up leaving this screw on top even though the strap will need to uh Go on here rather closely to everything Um I don't I don't know how that's gonna work, but we'll sort that out The main thing is it's installed Finally I'm very excited for that and uh I don't know if I'm gonna continue on with the hoses It's a little late in the day And I'm pretty tired And the camera's on 1% I will be making some slight upgrades to my uh camera equipment. I'm gonna get a um microphone So if anybody out there has complained about audio quality in the past Hopefully this will fix it. It will be a slight inconvenience to me because it will make it might make my camera twice as tall um I have been doing the stealth thing up until now, but I feel like you know There's a few things I want to work on going forward And one of them is the audio quality along with the video quality and of course the story And the videos. I really want to make these a lot higher quality And that might mean a little bit less videos, which is okay with me. Um, but um, you know Really, I don't know Just want to make something super high quality. So when people watch it, it looks Like it's a tv show or something kind of I don't know if I can even pull that off. Also a quick update uh, alaska, I'm trying to leave No later than july 1st to cross the border to drive up there If anyone wants to caravan, you're welcome to But I don't yet have a solid concrete plan. So for those people who are going up anyways, that's my kind of rough, uh date Um, I am trying to make it to the bus fare in oakridge or or again um The weekend of june, I think it's 7th and 8th um on instagram The bus fare, uh for more information Okay boys and girls I'll give you a uh brief overview These two lines come out uh Two of three fuel hot water Hot water right over there by that other tank uh, I took off one that looped into this And then it that that actually on the far side looped down and went here It's coming directly out of the diesel coolant diesel power coolant heater So instead of looping directly here. I'm looping it to the tank first and then back here and then I took off The fuel plugged it on the other side of this And uh ran a new line from the top sucker To the inlet Now I did drain this here into this bucket Uh got a little water On the uh ground That's all the oil that spilled Less than a cup did a pretty good job this time Uh crimped off this line Cut off the fitting Reused the fitting for that one have an extra fitting So here's the moral of the story The moral the moral of the story I forget Oh when I drained the oil there was red coolant mixing with my oil yet again and water coolant Uh Gets blocked by the fuel filter. I'm using it as an oil filter veggie oil filter in this heated Davco filter. This is a second one to be leaking, but This since I had two of them we rebuilt this one badge and I so I don't know what the problem is I do have another one So I'm thinking thinking I'm thinking Ow that hurts when I think I am thinking This is it right here. This is the original one. I'm thinking of rebuild this one again Maybe use high temp O-rings. I'm not really sure. I don't know all I know is that if you have an old semi truck And you have a Davco and you're having engine problems filter problems It's probably the Davco Well, at some point that issue will arise Moving right along good news bad news Good news is everything's hooked up The bad news like I think I mentioned there was coolant coming out of the filter Let me walk you through my thought thought process I called Kyle Volkman my veggie guru who also was taught by nategun22 at gmail.com for everybody who says Who's your guy? Whatever This is a coolant heated system. It's leaking coolant into the oil Water coolant is the worst thing possible for a diesel engine Along with the particulates. All right, so I'm gonna get a racor. Here's why more surface area more surface area means less filters to To replace they're about the same cost as the ones I use about 12 bucks 11 bucks um and two The one that I'm thinking about getting is electric heated and apparently I only need to heat it Just on startup for a few minutes And then it should be hot enough to flow through the whole system because of that heated pick up hot fox thing Which is heated from coolant so I need to order something because I've now failed Three times at this I've used a half dozen filters And Kyle Volkman says that I should be only replacing filters every 2,000 miles I've replaced these every 50 or so except for the first time I used it got a couple hundred out of it So that's the update on the veggie oil for those wondering Um, I have some more to put in here. I haven't really been playing with the oil that much Um, I'm just going to check for leaks on the hot fox unit. Actually, let's go inside and Check for leaks together. All right, so for those wondering I'm running a uh was well currently I'm hooked up running a davko 382 And that's what was leaking Now nothing No water coming out That's one No water coming out on the number two Holy crap this whole unit is hot to the touch probably 150 degrees Maybe 120 it's it's hotter than my way hotter than my body temperature And these fittings here Especially this one over here. This must be where it comes in this one here is If it was any hotter it would burn uh, so It's hot. It's working Just like the name hot fox It is heating the tank. I had it on for about 20 minutes So I'm now just going to touch the tank Just to see if there is any Noticable difference none at all Seems to be about the same temperature um You know about 70 degrees or so it's in the shade Takes a long time to heat up After overnight all that stuff so From here on out I'm going to work on the inside of the bus. I'm going to try and put the floors back in maybe tomorrow Work on the sub floors And then address this system after what i'll do is i'll just bypass this uh Heated filter I'll just connect this hose to this hose here And uh, I'll just replace that with a ray core