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hey everyone welcome back to the channel on the bim build series
today i'm going to be doing a headliner shelf for the front of our 2020 transit
ford transit all-wheel drive um so basically what the headliner shelf is is it comes up
over your stock like headliner shelves and it creates a bigger shelf that comes over the top
of your heads basically so you have more storage up above for things like you know blankets and
stuff like that towels just you know the necessities that you're gonna need
on a camping trip or whatever like you can store parts of the bed over there so what i'm going
to be using is what's called the vancillary i think it's vancillary.com i'm using their diy
headliner shelf kit and basically it comes as just with a template to give you the
measurements for the cutout and then what it does is it gives you the plates that go up above
that mount under the stock brackets and that allows you to put the shelf on there
use stock hardware with the stock brackets that they've you know machined and engineered
to fit and they give you this awesome template right here and this template you just tape down
onto a piece of plywood and cut it out so i'm using half inch birch hardwood plywood
and i'm actually going to cheat a little bit i'm making it a little bit bigger and what i'm going
to do is i'm going to get it up there and see if i like it a little bit bigger i don't know why they
only make it 20 inches but by the time your other shelf is done it's going to come out to here so
you're really going to only have like this much space like maybe 12 inches to work with before
it really goes down to nothing at the headliner so i'm going to try making it a little bit bigger
at first because you can always cut it down but you can't make it longer you know what i mean
all right one thing they didn't have done yet at vancillary was the cutout
for the 2020 has this little thing in the headliner so but they sent me the measurements and
i was able to replicate it but hopefully by the time this video comes out they'll have this on the
template we started putting the brackets in let me get that bracket in over there kind of a pain
and have the daughter hold the flashlight i can see what we're doing but basically you gotta
take these two screws out they're just quarter inch heads and then the bracket fits right over
like so you loose them up and you just put them back back where they were and that accepts the
shelf these are the two brackets so that's all there is to it so i got it roughed in
i cut it you know after i cut it i got it roughed in just to see if i want to cut it shorter
whatever because i did leave it long i actually made it two inches longer than what they said
and uh i definitely like it longer like that this is the media roof van so it doesn't give you a
lot with the high roof it gives you you know a lot more space but then i think i'm going to put some
l track on top of here or not l track uh 80 20 so we can mount like a
ipad or tablet here for when the kids are when we're driving or something like that
all right so we like the depth so we're gonna run with it we're just gonna mark these holes with a
little pencil we had to break in half to get back here
then we're going to drill those out and then we're going to cover it with some
foam and some upholstery so we drilled the holes out after we've marked them
now we're going to just take i guess about some eighth inch foam foam from a pulse replace
laid out the bottom of the shelf on there that we're going to cover in foam first and then we're
going to upholster it so we'll just lay that out just marked it out so that we can spray just 3m 90
here just so we don't over spray it and then we'll just trim the edges off after with a razor knife
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all right so i'm just marking out i get the upholstery now which is
the just using a tweed fabric we put on the foam as you can see it's on that piece
and i'm just marking out with the marker just so i know where the glue's gonna go just to not
waste it because it's expensive and then we'll upholster this onto the panel and then we'll
flip it over and then we'll flip the fabric on top so we can do the bottom and the top i just
put foam on the bottom just so like if you bump your head on it or whatever it won't be uh harsh
so
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got it all upholstered get it all trimmed out
kind of went up on the edges on the side here you're never going to see this but
i wanted to get it up on the edges just so you wouldn't see it on the bottom anyway
um tends to stick a lot better to the plywood than it does to the foam i don't know i kind of
don't know if i would do the foam next time it's really worth it i mean it's it's not like it's
i don't know i guess i get why people do the foam because it's got that soft touch but so next i'm
going to cut a piece of 80 20 they go across the top here um just like like mount the tablet on the
edge or something like that or you know just keep stuff from sliding back instead of doing an edge
and just upholstering it i wanted to put the piece of 80 20 to give me something to mount stuff to
so i got the 80 20 piece cut it's a little shorter because the the headliner in the van goes like
this kind of so i just cut it a little bit short um all i'm going to do is i'm going to drill like
five holes through there with like a 3 16 inch bit and just use these inch and a half stainless
screws that will go right through and kind of look like that on top just right into the plywood
all right there she is all done up secured put the hardware in comes with nylock nuts
so you can kind of put it on top so they don't vibrate loose as you can see on the top here
but overall pretty happy the way it came out um i like the 80 20 edge
just to be able to mount some stuff on there like you want to put a tablet or whatever
um a couple things i might try differently is next time i would probably
roll the fabric up the backside of the plywood and i don't know if i would use foam or not
i mean it has a nice feel to it but is it needed probably not it's just an extra step
but overall i think it came out good let me know what you guys think um it was probably like a
few hour project between cutting the plywood um you know putting the brackets in upholstering it
um and then installing it but overall it's definitely a good project and now i can
put all my stuff up there have all my sheets my you know electric blanket for cold nights sleeping
bag i'll just stuff it all up in there just gives me an extra space for storage that's out
of the way and you know it's not like you're ever going to hit your head on it i don't really go
between the seats anyway as you can see but yeah alright well we'll see you in the next project