We made progress today on a number of projects.
The heater is mostly in place – now screwed to the floor and wired with the main electrical harness. The frame surrounding the heater is the base of the refrigerator cabinet.
I decided to enlarge the hole in the floor to give us some more room for the various clamps holding on the exhaust and combustion air hoses. I did not cut through the van floor any further, but just enlarged the hole on top. That required installing some new aluminum heat shielding with silicone. It is now all in and ready for the final wiring and plumbing. Hopefully Ford will get me the port for the auxiliary fuel tank connection soon and I can finish it up.
I did not take a final picture – the fuel line is also attached and just waiting for something to drink.
I also drilled the hole for the refrigerator vent.
As I mentioned yesterday we are using a Valterra Waste Valve with a cable. That will give us the ability to remotely open or close the vent as necessary. Each side of the waste valve has a 3″ slip hub. The slip hub going though the van floor fits snuggly into a 3″ flexible pvc coupler that is set into the floor with silicone. The slip hub poking up will get fitted with a flexible irrigation pipe (at least that’s the current plan) that will run directly up to the refrigerator coils.
This is the slip hub that fits down into the coupler in the floor.
Here is what it looks like when you core the van floor! Vinyl, plywood, reflectix, foam insulation, metal floor.
We also put in the second wall that had been drying while we were snowboarding over New Year’s. That was unnecessarily frustrating and I’m not entirely thrilled with how our walls are turning out, but I’m sure we will make it work. Sara started cutting the next section of walls that will finish the walls next to the bed. Beyond the bed will be cabinets and/or other kinds of walls so we will be doing something different there.