Ok! I have a first version of my van on the garage floor. The next steps are to run a few more in-wall cables, install the assemblies (fuse box, switches, blower pots, etc.) that fasten to wall panels, and then button her up.
Once that's done, it's time to start building furniture! Right now I have only a bed and everything else is in stacked bins. It'll be wonderful to have a work surface, drawers, a water faucet, and mounts for the van LAN boxen.
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It's custom cable day here so out comes the terminal hardware assortments, the weird crimper tooling, and the general fear that everything will catch on fire forever.
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The year is 2025. I am stringing cables in my camper van, mostly for power but also one run of Ethernet, a tech invented (not by me, obs) in my old lab in the 70s.
It's a funny ol' world.
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It's cardboard prototype time!

I pulled out my camper van's interior wall panels to run cabling from the starter battery to the house power system's DC/DC charger. While the walls are open to the air, I'm also figuring out how to add a marine blower to one of the stock rear cabin air outlets. Anything to avoid cutting holes in the van's metal shell.
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So I didn't quiet succeed in my goals of getting the forums and the #PixelFed instance up. I just kept getting distracted by shit.

Got to try to dispose of 4 containers of Prestone DexCool orange coolant. The vans old owner was going to use it to change the radiator fluid out but we made sure there was none in there and used standard Universal Green.

Now we need to properly dispose of the stuff we got.

Tail pipe is still pumping put white smoke. Dad thinks it's just condensation from the system. And we do leave it shut down a lot. But I feel it would have reduced by now after being started a few days in a row if that was the case.

Could be stale gas, the tank hasn't been refilled since we got this thing several months ago. This is the option I prefer. Once I get the Tires changed and maybe the Brakes serviced I can drive around until the tank is empty then run a tank of Premium with Additive through and maybe clean it out. And Oil change will give me more information as well.

The worst case scenario, and the one I am afraid is the actual problem, is an internal coolant leak. This would mean the engine itself needs repair and could run into the thousands of Dollars. I don't mind it if it gets the van on the road and I need a full diagnostic anyways, but this isn't the sort of thing I want to deal with.

Once the PixelFed instance in online on Wanderers-Waypoint.com and I have confirmed it's properly federated I will probably move these updates there. But I have to ensure Federation works as that domain used to be a Mastodon instance and I self-destructed it.

You may not like it but this is what peak productivity looks like.
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An old timer telling my whippersnapper how it goes. Know when to hold 'em and all that jazz.
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I sketched the interior of a Ford Transit low roof 130" wheelbase cargo van and how I'm thinking about building it out as a living space. There's a long benchseat slash bed (in blue), a work surface (also blue, but higher and shorter), and a garage area in the rear that also provides shelving inside the living space.
The second image shows the rear garage area with a power bank, a heater, and an air conditioner.
The third image shows two smol dog beds in green.
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