 Well, good morning from Tucson Today is a beautiful day out here. The funny thing is Yesterday was cloudy And yesterday was the only day I ever put sunscreen on I had the wires I know a lot of people have said hide the wires. I can't stand it. Well, just for you guys We're gonna hide the wires We stain this yesterday this is looking good it matches the rest of the color of the wood Looks like it's drying. We'll put some water-based poly poly acrylic up there. That was a recommendation from Water booming who by the way is completely booked up for 2019 for bus builds, so You know, I'm so I when he told me that I was so Proud of him and I took a little pride knowing that When we first met he said that's what he wanted to do and you know now he's he's he's all booked up So he met the right people and you know did some generous work over at the van build and you know, he's Gotten back tenfold what what he's given, you know Good lesson for everyone So today we're just gonna continue on we have another bus coming by a mechanic first time I'll be meeting him today. He's gonna help me put in The gauge I haven't ever done one of these but it should be pretty simple the gauge Hooked up to the vegetable oil tank put it over there somewhere and then I think also Carrier bearings those are the things that hold up the drab shaft There's also a little bearing in there so it can spin around so probably that and then We will work on the inside. I'll put some more paint on this piece and Get those pieces all buttoned up make this thing look like a million bucks Great news guys. We have some visitors Carissa and Dalton And these guys were nice enough to come on down here and and just say hey We want to meet you and meet people and we got a bus of our own and Dalton is mechanics. So he's gonna be wiring in that pesky level center that I put in there and We have a gauge for it from the same manufacturer So do you want to tell us how this thing works? So it's pretty simple the fuel level sensor that he put in the sender It just has one wire coming off of it and an extra ground just to make sure you don't have any static charge The one wire is your signal wire. This gauge is marked really nicely. So it just says s for signal So that's the longest wire that we have to run the ground wire We'll just go right to the dash and then the ignition power will pull right from inside the dash From something that's keyed on power and then headlight power right there and that's all that gauge needs awesome You make it sound so easy. It's pretty simple, but it's different when you're applying it to the car Right. There's a difference to a diagram and actual application Diagrams pretty easy application takes a little more process. Awesome. And so because it is so hard to see in here guys It's about as dark as night in here So it's gonna be extremely hard to to watch exactly what he's doing We'll check in with him in a little bit. Well guys I've got one of two armrests loaded up. I'm gonna take these into a more dust-free environment Stain them and then put some epoxy on them and then I'll bring them back over here the bus in a couple of days All right fast forward to Most of the wire is connected. So you want to walk us through what you're doing? We still have one more ground to do outside on the level cinder itself But we've got all our wires that we need inside the bus ran to our Location of our new gauge. So like I said the three wires here That you need for the gauge to work and then the one illumination wire Because Jax doesn't run his headlights off. He runs them all the time. We're just gonna use the same ignition power to run the Illumination so I just have a little pigtail to change it from one wire to two and then all the other connections are right here So I'm just gonna start making these connections and my favorite way to do this I was gonna say so if I were if I had the bus on and then I turn my lights off the gauge would then turn off as well Or just the illumination just the illumination Okay, if you were to wire that that illumination wire to the rest of your lights But like you said you run your lights all the time So I'm just gonna run it to ignition power and this will be illuminated all the time Okay, cool. So it's just it'll turn off when you turn the key off and that's let there be light. Yep So one of my favorite ways to do these connections is just to rip off the original plastic insulation and Use heat shrink it makes it so much nicer so much cleaner and your your crimp actually gets done way tighter Hmm, so that's what you're left with now. You can see what happens inside the plastic when you're squeezing And then you heat shrink over that It's a way tighter connection doesn't come apart doesn't get corroded doesn't get damaged doesn't crack Make sure it's nice exactly looks properly Connected squeezed on there cool And then where it where you see the slit where it's bent over on the connector on the islet You always want to put that in the round portion of your crimper Like that. So you're piercing the backside and it doesn't just spread it wide open and destroy the connector That makes sense leaves it nice and flushed like that because otherwise you dig it in like a It just flares open and then you don't crimp any of your wires. You just ruin the connector and then you've got nothing It's a good tip Have some great news on the sconce front. I added and drilled a hole and added a switch there So these are gonna go on the wall. They look just like this. Let me turn that sideways so you can see and They just go black goes into red white goes into white and They will sit right there. I just need to figure out where the beam is and then we're in business All right, so good news bad news. We do have this thing wired And it is sending some kind of signal. Is that right? What were you calling it? It's the ground resistance So basically what this gauge does is it sends 12 volt through the gauge? And then on the ground side is where your level sensor is this downstream So it has pure ground right here for the light, but it has the signal That's going to the scent to the actual float and when I put my resistance on here. You can watch right there. I'm getting 157 ohms 181 now kind of fluctuating a little bit, but that's right within our range, but our gauge is not working Still showing empty. That's right. We got power. It's lighting up But it's not so basically it looks like I'm gonna have to order a new gauge for some reason that one is not working So that's just kind of what happens Just want to thank these guys for coming by again ramblin love bus. They're gonna document their Bus conversion on Instagram So if you are curious what a mechanic and as a lovely lady can do with the school bus then check them out So, yeah, awesome. So I hope to see you guys sooner rather than later And thanks so much for all the help. All right. See you guys All right, we're picking up where we left off check out this We are gonna put some poly acrylic if you don't know what that is just call it some kind of seal so we're gonna seal this and We had a little boo boo earlier I took the lid off and then we spilled it on the steps here The waterproof underlayment is waterproof times two we also taped off a couple things in here Just so it doesn't drip We now know the consistency. It's kind of like I don't know frosting liquid frosting and Yeah We aren't doing this get for good luck guys. We are just Covering up the the lights and then the tops and I don't know was in the back part We're just gonna get to work. Here is the finished product. I don't know if you'll be able to See the difference, but there is a kind of a sheen to it right now. I think we used a semi-gloss This was a recommendation of water boom master woodworker and It's looking very luscious and rich and Very yacht-like If that's even a descriptor I love it. It looks great it has a very nice sheen to it and We'll probably put another coat on here and it will make the ceiling a bit more durable And waterproof. This is gonna have to get lots of layers because it is a shower and It was pretty messy so make sure if you do this to put your lights in to block Becky's and Tape everything off that touches it And we're just gonna let it dry Go help out Glenn with some painting He's modifying a trailer. So Yeah, I don't know. We'll check back in later today or tomorrow