welcome to crapper land everybody the land where all crappers come to die this
is actually some pretty neat yard art I mean have we ever seen
toilets gathering for a bonfire there's even a tub there with some pink
flamingos in there yeah art guys right off the highway here is that old toilet
look at it would seen on that one randomness right welcome to Missouri
welcome to misery make sure I get corrected yeah I'm in misery mm-hmm
gonna go meet up with some friends here go a little bit farther south towards
st. Joseph and then possibly Kansas City we shall see I gotta fix a couple things
I got to pick up a couple packages and then we'll be continuing on Lincoln
Highway in a few videos so continue to Trek on south
yeah the time has come I am getting tired of the paint peeling problem that
has been going on everywhere on this hood is just cancerous as getting worse
and worse I have decided that anything is better than what's going on right now
so I am sanding this down all of it getting the entire hood prepped for
paint I am going to repaint my hood like I said I don't think I can make it any
worse than what it already is right now so here hanging out with my buddy Jason
and Candice here in the st. Joseph area of Missouri so I got some tools some
power tools some power and some some projects to do while I'm here the hood
is gonna be number one I'll show you what products I'm going to use can't go
wrong with the old rust-oleum line so I got two cans of white primer and then I
got my gloss enamel it's it's going to be a matter of matching it to the side
fenders the quarter panels as much as possible but I'm not going for a
perfection here I got some plastic drop cloth to put over everything so the
paint doesn't go other places but essentially when we get done as long as
it looks somewhat white with a little bit of gloss that matches the quarter
panels I'm gonna be happy with that so that is my project I'm gonna clean this
off rinse it all off and get this ready for a first coat of primer alright so
got everything prepped here I just put the plastic over everything in the RV
then cut out the hood retake to everything so that we are only going to
be hitting the hood here and then after we get this done a couple coats of
primer will be switched into the paint so primer first
beautiful first coat we got any three of these though so we'll let this dry about
20-30 minutes and we'll do a second coat so don't get discouraged by the first
coat of primer this is the just the second coat of primer and it hasn't even
dried yet I've got about 10 more minutes before I get to apply the third coat but
it looks a lot better after the second coat of primer I will say that a lot
better duh there we go third coat of primer has
dried I have noticed some dents in the front here but later on this is going to
be covered by a bug shield I never noticed those dents before because the
missing paint was always there but I'm gonna switch it up and go from primer to
gloss white paint and do three coats of that and I will cut back to you when
those three coats have dried and we will take a look well it is starting to get
warm out there in the country everywhere in the country is just starting to get
warm you know summer hasn't even really hit
I'm gonna be using the air conditioner a lot I take it in in the Midwest I think
until I get to the East Coast so run in the generator for air conditioning with
all the windows closed you know maybe be turning it on it 2 p.m. and running it
until 7:00 or 8:00 p.m. just to keep it manageable in here we're gonna we're
gonna clean it and get it ready for the summer at least really simple but it
will take a look here I'll show you these when I take them out but I can
already see how nasty the filters are there so we got to remove both buttons
on the front here and then a screw there and a screw there and then the entire
compartment will just fall down and then it just comes off really easy up there
again I don't know what kind of maintenance can be done on it if you can
refill the refrigerant like a normal and I don't know anything about that what I
do know is that this air conditioner is 17 years old that's a pretty good life
to still be generating cold air but inside the cap here these are the
filters we want to clean so just remember how they go in because they're
cut a certain way in this one oh look at that that's just now
nasty so we're gonna take this outside and beat it against a rock and then I'm
going to rinse it off with water and let both of these dry look at that that's
that's all Jack's fur there now you want this clean you may even want to clean
this two or three times during the summer depending on the dusty places
you're in or the amount of cat hair being produced into the air going up now
yeah I'm talking to you I'll give me all right awesome I got
these guys all cleaned up looking good I'm gonna let these on air dry then
we'll put it back together see how much cleaner that is whew and then maybe the
air conditioner will run a little better but in the past it doesn't do a whole
lot well just making this up as I go didn't know quite what to expect but
this white this gloss white did not come out glossy enough so remember the main
thing I'm trying to do right now is to match this white with the quarter panels
that's the most important thing to do it looks great like this but I want it to
look more comfortable next to the quarter panels so I'm gonna run to the
auto parts store here and just get some gloss some not high gloss not semi-gloss
but I'm gonna get some satin gloss and if satin gloss doesn't bring it to the
shine of the quarter panels then I can just do one more layer of semi-gloss
instead but I'll be back I'm gonna hop on the bike real quick go for a little
ride I'd like to get this project wrapped up basically before it gets dark
tonight well I got two coats of clear coat gloss on here and I'm actually
quite happy with it I'm gonna wait till the morning to actually remove all the
plastics the pain is still going to be tacky for a few more hours but the goal
I was going for I think is accomplished we'll check back in in the morning and
see how it matches the quarter panels actually I changed my mind I went ahead
went back to the store got the high gloss put two coats of high gloss on it
and already took off the plastic and we have a look at the finished product
which I just can't stop smiling about really to the naked eye at least from
here I'm four feet away you guys are looking at it I think it matches just
fine are there imperfections you I feel like you can see the dent a
little better now but here you know you can go back see the gloss okay as we
look over here it almost seems like a different color white than this a little
bit but I don't I don't think you can really tell to be honest with you again
if we go back it blends in get some more color there some gloss that actually
looks fantastic whoa I shocked myself today I'll tell
you that this project turned out really really good not sure if I have any
pictures of the past but if you've been following my channel the last six months
you know what this hood looked like this is almost a miracle and I got it done
for less than 30 bucks total with all supplies and everything between Walmart
ace and and Lowe's combined thankfully I had the bike to go get stuff but hey
easy way rust-oleum rattle-can for the win we'll see I'm gonna give you guys a
few updates coming up here like a six month update on the spray tile that's
going on in the bathroom that's coming up next month as well as we just hit our
six month part of Sep lore polish on the exterior of the RV so let's talk about
that real quick again I will link the video up top in the corner so you can
see me applying the zip polish but I would say six months down the road it's
not flat at all it still has an amazing shine here but uh I may still want to do
another coat I may want to do this every six months I just don't want to do it
here in st. Joseph Missouri right now I have enough going on and its really warm
with all the good that's happened I guess good we clean the air conditioner
or the hood was the major thing but between waiting for coats to dry I want
to share something else because I'm gonna be honest with you not everything
always works out the planned we'll start here at the furnace
area which you can see Eric where are your furnace holes covered I had decided
to take out my furnace the furnace no longer worked I don't use the furnace I
don't need the furnace I used the buddy heater in the winter
the furnace is just dead weight and it literally doesn't work so I decided to
pull the furnace out I'm gonna show you a couple pictures because everything
started off good I found where the wiring was and then all of a sudden
everything kind of turned to crap and the wall Phillip I mean really really
thin wall but cheaply constructed the wall fell apart on me I panicked a
little bit until I realized that it can be fixed and it was fixed uh anyway the
furnace is out in the garbage gone done no more furnace I have storage there now
let's go inside and I'll show you what it looks like the finished fix mean I
think everything came out just fine I realized this pattern of wood doesn't
match the white and it doesn't match the wood here but I think that slab worked
really well the TV's there anyway I'd moved this to the edge I still got the
nice platform here like I said I built an entire box all the way around with a
door over there for storage now where the furnace was and put the inverter
converter box right here in the same spot so it's easily accessible and just
kind of just kind of fix that problem for now looks good so I mean it's been a
crazy interesting day not what I plan to do today but it's all good anyways I'm
gonna take a break from the work because I really came down here and hang out
with friends want to hang out with Jason and Candice and get outside a little
more maybe take the bikes out he's got a TW 200 as well he's Jason from camping
went to Kelly's I'll link their video in the video description
their channel I'll link it below check out their channel but Jackson I'll see
ya in a couple days or so we'll see what happens
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