So we hoped that if everything went perfectly we might be ready to leave tomorrow. Yeah, right. Some things did go fine. I fixed the problem that came up yesterday with the fuse box and got the passenger side wired up. (Of course, if nothing went wrong yesterday I would have been done with this last night.)
I did a little more work on the electrical box because one last circuit breaker came in the mail. A quick trip to NAPA to divide one of my wires, install the circuit breaker, cut a vent hole in the box, and it was essentially done except for the lid.. Somewhere after that things started to go downhill.
We put in the toilet and the galley. The galley hangs slightly over the passenger step, which means it rests on the metal floor trim. This shim throws it out of square with respect to the toilet cabinet. Our option was to trim the toilet cabinet crooked to fit the galley, or shim the rest of the galley floor to about the same height as the floor trim. We opted to shim in. Of course, this took quite a while and then we have to wait for the glue to dry (and we want to polyurethane the shims) to install it. Now we have to wait until tomorrow to get it in so we lose more than just a couple hours to make/install the shims. Once it is in, I still have to do the water and electric in that cabinet before we can leave.
Then I went to put the lid on the electrical cabinet. I needed to rotate the driver’s seat back to do it. When I went to turn it….jam. I knew it was going to slightly scrape the cabinet, but this was way more than that. Apparently when we did all our tests before it was bolted/screwed in tight there was enough play in the cabinet that it would turn with only a scrape. Now the corner of the swivel was digging solidly into the edge of the cabinet. I slammed it back and forth multiple times but it wouldn’t go. I got it really good and stuck and in trying to unstick it things started to break and bleed. Ugh. We ended up having to completely remove the driver’s seat and then I took the angle grinder to the offending corner of the swivel to straight chop it off. The end of the cabinet is a splintery mess so at some point I will have to sand that up. This debacle was easily an hour wasted, probably more. I didn’t take any pictures of this process because I was not taking it well and I didn’t want to get blood all over my phone.
Amazingly, putting the lid on the cabinet went super well. I put the piano hinge on the lid first, that’s easy. Holding the lid up and trying to install the hinge on the cabinet part is a bit of a trick. I put in a couple screws and tested our alignment and it was perfect! Easy then to just drill the rest of the screw holes.
Finally, we did a little work on the back panel of the wardrobe. Sara had previously cut and finished them so it was a matter of getting them around all the wiring. It required quite a bit of extra measuring and cutting, but the top small panel is in. Pictures of that tomorrow.