I realize I have not posted anything regarding my van in what feels like forever. I did a lot of mechanical work this summer and wanted to summarize it. I needed to replace the driver-side wheel bearing assembly and figured I would go ahead and put on new front shocks. With some research, I purchased […]
Tag: van life
Creation of the Van Bed
The post is long overdue as I have had a legit bed in my van for a while now as this is probably the most important feature of a van conversion. Let’s see if I can break this down as this was not an easy build for me. For whatever reason, I really struggled with […]
Surprise Empowerment
Even with the cold today, I would love to be in my kayak on the river. However, not having much luck find others willing, I took the opportunity to work on the vehicle that actually gets me to the river. I will be the first to admit, working on a vehicle is a pretty intimidating […]
Van Ceiling
This part of the project was fairly intense for one person. It didn’t turn out as nice as I would have liked and I will make notes of what I would change but here is what I did. I cut 1/4″ ply to the width I needed and cut them in segments because I knew […]
Insulating The Van
I am not going to go into the specifics of the vast topic of insulation. There are plenty of resources out there telling you the details and it can be very overwhelming. Here is my brief run down of what I did after hours of research: Walls: 1/2″ poly Ceiling: 1″ poly Floor: Sound deadener […]
Spraying the Van
A friend of mine had sent me a post a while back of someone spraying their entire van with tintable bedliner and I recall seeing another kayaker having that style on his truck. After a fair amount of research, posting on forums, etc., I decided to pull the trigger on a black Rapter bedliner (link is […]
