welcome to today's video so we are starting our vine conversion today we're gonna show
you how to take out that bulkhead and take up this flooring we're also gonna give the van
a really good clean okay so the first thing we're gonna do is take this big bulkhead out
but we may have to take up the floor first to get to all the screws so um there are screws in the
roof um down by the floor all of these bits are all gonna have to come out and then the
bulkhead should just come away from where it's being held and then we can start on the floor
so as britt said we're going to take the floor up first so it's just loads of little screws
just take those out and then you might have to cut for a bit of the mastic here
because i'm not really sure if it's one big piece underneath the wheel boxes or if we'll just cut
the mask and it'll come out so we're getting the screws out floors there's a few in here
so there's a few bits of mastic so i'm just gonna use a standing knife just to
cut through there hopefully that'll uh go through and get the floor out
so as you can see guys we don't have a drill we're doing it all by hand which some people
might think stupid but obviously if you're on a budget and you can't afford a drill then that's
what you got to do i think we might borrow the trailer because this is just going to take forever
as you can see we've got this side pretty much free so guys it's not going to plan it's a bit
of a disaster but i've hopefully got a bit of the mastic out nope there's been the old mastic
yeah so we haven't got the right tools that's the whole point within this project you know
we don't know what we're doing and that's why it's good
bit windy isn't it brit yeah how's it going well i've made a gap but it's just stuck stuck to this
just trying to cut it away
oh look at that yes
i've made it to the metal can you see
it seems a bit difficult to get apart so i think we're just going to have to rip it apart like this
so you guys you found out why we can't get the wheel box off let's get screwed in
so i know a lot of people screw into the wheel arches
i didn't like doing this because obviously you're screwing into the metal frame you're
creating holes whoever's done this man you know there's put a hole in it so
what have we done whoever's done normally i would just use wood glue to stick the wheel
watches on so now i have to unscrew it and hopefully this one will come out and looks
like it is coming out it's not rusted so you can actually get the wheel box off amateur builders
it's just dirt so guys we're doing this van just as if you were doing it amateurs for the first
time obviously it's our second band but the first man british gas is pretty bare and basic
so we're going to do the bulkhead and the floor but we've realized you can't get that out because
the wheel boxes are in the way and so the walls so we're going to get the wheel boxes off first
then take off the wall panels then we can get to the floor and some of the bolts have rusted in so
i think we're going to need a drill to get them out and we haven't got one so yeah that's all
part of the fun but yeah we're enjoying it and it's we're making progress looking good
so hopefully i've got it off now bend it over oh hey
there we go oh it's actually looking pretty good under there wow spider that's pretty nice
there we go it's looking a lot different now this is actually really good you know
it looks like it's not even been touched just a shame about all the um the scrapes
but um yeah we can work with that just to try and get this next wheel box off
okay that was a bit of a struggle wasn't it
so hopefully you can hear me it is a bit windy but i think we can't
get these screws out because the raspberry is going to rip the wood around the screws
and get out of that way and then we'll tackle the screws after here it goes hopefully this will work
well hey there we go freedom and the floor looks pretty good actually it's a bit of water but it's
pretty good here's the floor underneath guys it's pretty dirty did you say it's wet yeah right here
for some reason oh my god that's in pretty good condition nothing you can't saw hey william no
all of that and we didn't even have a drill arms of steel
all right so i can't get these screws out because they've rusted in and we
don't have a drill so i'm just going to try and see if i can get it around
around the wood just break it out just around the screws and then we can just get it out
there you go there's two in the back there we go so uh this is where we're at so we've took off
the wheel boxes we've taken off the wall and we've pulled up the floor um so we've seen all the wet
and the mud and then a little bit of rust at the back but um it's nothing that can't be fixed
she's a bit dirty in here day two time to get the boat cut out
okay
there we go another one done bulk head
out
so i've just been taking up this trim and look what i found
big old part of pine needles or grass or something so i don't know what this van's been used for but
yeah pretty dirty that's definitely like it's needles from some sort of tree yeah
yeah staying the other side so yeah we found all this weird stuff under here so if anybody knows
what it is uh please let us know in the comments it's a bit weird looks like grain or something i
don't know why they put it down there but yeah but the floor is looking pretty good
so you guys are pretty much stripped out all the plywood and we've taken the bulkhead out and we've
just got this last pole left from the bulkhead that helps support the bulkhead in the middle
and this bolt at the bottom is rusted out so i need to get this bolt out then i get the pole out
so i don't have a drill and because this bolt is rusted i'm going to show you how to get it out
we need a set of mold grips and you simply clamp them on there
and once it's clamped you just twist it as you can see that's starting to come undone
so now that i've loosened that off i can go grab an allen key and it should just
undo
as you guys can see we have stripped out the back
and prepped the floor it's all looking nice and good so another thing that was wrong with this van
was this rubber seal here on the back door it's got a few nicks up here and along the
bottom it's all been scuffed so the previous owner's obviously been getting things in and
out and they've ripped the seal so i could have just left it and cleaned up but i want it to be
really nice and new so i've gone and bought a new seal so now i'm going to rip off this seal
and then i'm going to paint around all the edges to get rid of the scratches um and treat it so it
looks a lot nicer and then i'm going to put the brand new seal on let's get this sealer
as you can see this seal was a bit monkey the old one
a hole in it there and it's a bit dirty along there a little rip
good job i got a new one
the next thing i've got to do before i put the new seal on is just paint up the scratches here
i don't really need to do it because they'll get covered but i'm just the kind of person
that likes it looking all neat and tidy so i've got some right paint here so i'm just going to
hammer out all the little scratches and then once that's done i can whack on the new seals
so here it is a brand new seal from bw i brought this to my local garage who i always go to for met
servicing all that jazz and uh i messed them on facebook for this and they got it from vw next
day which is absolutely brilliant but anyway let's get this seal on so i don't actually
know if it's meant to go on a specific way there is a join in it so i'm just going to
put that joint at the top and hope that's right so if i do it wrong uh let me know
well i think that's on that looks a lot better so guys i put the seal on wrong so i'm gonna put it
on right so if anyone else is doing this they'll know what to do so pretty much in the seals i
figured out there's a really there's a bit of a thicker bit um just down one on the side which
i've found here and i think that thicker bit on the inside is meant to go at the top where
your door closes onto it i've just looked at my other caddy and that's where it seems to be so
i think that's for the right place so i'm just going to pull this off and put it back on
so the thicker bit is about that long i'm just sitting between my two thumbs
so i'm pretty sure this is meant to go at the top
there you go it's all on so i've just put the new seal on the tailgate so now the only thing's left
to do on the inside is to clean up the walls to get all the orange specks off i don't know what
that's from we'll get all that off paint over all the scratches pull out all the roof and
then that's the whole of the inside strip we can probably clean it again and then that'll be it
and then the next stage will be the insulation so let's get on with that so guys the next step
is to take the roof out so i'm going to show you how to do that if people don't know how to do it
so these little rubber grommets i think they are so pretty much what you want to do is get an allen
key just unscrew a little bit and then you get a set of pliers and then you can just pull them out
that's the roof out so the last bit to getting the roof off is just this
middle section that holds the roof in it's just got a couple of clips you just have to
pull them down they're pretty tight but they should come out there we go
there you go that's the bit of roof
refill
so there it is guys the van's all stripped out ready for installation
so see you in the next video thanks for watching