hey everybody got good news we're gonna get miranda fixed
right now we're gonna put the rv in really good hands rv prepper wayne is here and he's gonna
it's fixed
hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic welcome back to rainy moist illinois we've got
farina outside the shop here in the rain you know gotta test out the new roof that's up there
and uh over here you might recognize this rv although some stripes have been removed
wayne is here all the way from panama city florida he had a project in kentucky and uh
by the way if you're anywhere between let's say here in illinois and back down towards panama city
uh shoot up rv prepper wayne i'll put a link up top and in the video description
if you need some work some rv work done roof reseal some solar we're doing solar and um well
i got some new information to share with you so yeah thanks for joining me guys i will be
uploading this video with some nomad internet link below in the video description we've kind
of got miranda here in the shop well i'll say as much of miranda that will fit in here the
the front four or five feet is sticking out and uh can you you see a little bit of light coming
through there yeah we i had to pull the garage door up just to be able to get miranda back in
here because wayne's doing a project and we don't want to work in the rain obviously so
things have changed slightly for me here um what everyone that watches my channel is going
to instantly notice is that it looks like i am uh salvaging parts from miranda and quite
possibly no longer going to be using my class a um well cost wise this makes sense but also
yeah pr probably this could be the end for my class a life could be uh this could be it
i can save a butt load of money by reusing everything that wayne and remember wayne was
the person who originally installed this about four years ago this whole system
all the lithium batteries down there so uh i hired wayne to do this job since he's familiar with it
and uh starting with the panels up top and then be working on all the interior components and
then wayne is going to be in reinstalling this all into frida uh check out wayne's channel his
video he's doing a video about this whole part i'm not going to be showing a whole lot of video from
removing stuff but yeah moving forward the class c life just seems to fit me and the kitties a little
better the rv fits in this shop which i'm thinking about keeping long-term uh there's just a lot of
things going on and i'm now back to am i gonna take the bike or the car i'm back to 50 50. so i
want to show you that outside real quick all right first of all i will splice in a clip from this
when many of my viewers told me eric you should just remove that caster that third wheel caster
so i went ahead and listened to you guys and uh i'll show that clip right now i took the front
caster off the third wheel a lot of people said that was the problem it's kind of like a an issue
that's definitely different
here we go
hey
perfect see that's awesome as you can see that caster was just getting in the way of
the balance and everything and plus i needed to get the trailer up a little higher
uh to be able to maneuver it but now i can move it just fine with the motorcycle in the trailer
i'm really happy about that plus i fixed the jack issue so out here you can see i've i've got the
new jack put on guys this is a swivel jack here that i got on amazon you pull this right here
and the whole thing rotates this way and stores right here for transport no longer have a huge
jack there so once i got that installed i was able to take the old jack off i said jack off
eric maturity and just like that all of a sudden i am regaining some confidence with hauling the
motorcycle across the country therefore that's why i said i'm 50 50. are we bringing the car
are we bringing black betty in the trailer that is something to be to be decided later right
now we got projects or i should say uh wayne has projects well one of the cool things is that now
that miranda's in here for the first time i can easily go in and out of the rv and start staging
some of the stuff i'm just kind of putting it in the corner over here got some bends to go through
of course my heaters and stuff probably won't be going with me this summer but we got all the
projector gear cooler i removed these uh ac fans and i'm probably going to be reinstalling at least
two of them in frida the magnet fishing stuff the grill and everything so but yeah wayne's gonna be
working on solar style stuff i'm gonna be working on making some trips in and out of the rv i'll get
back to you in a bit guys all right guys i worked so hard today i mean wayne worked so hard today
we're gonna go bowling here at airport plaza bowl they're doing glow night so they got the
black lights everywhere and uh i'm gonna kick wayne's butt tonight yeah
all right wayne's got a really good game going
right now uh-oh split i just messed it up sorry i had to say something
a few people have left they're playing some katy perry in here you know i'm loving that it's my jam
all right we had fun bowling there it's just for the glow lights it was really really dark last
night kind of impossible to get any video but had fun i won games one and three wayne gate won games
two and four that's pretty cool it's unlimited bowling from 6 p.m till
11 p.m for just 15 bucks a person flat rate that's pretty it was fun cool we'll go back um
so now frida's in here the opposite way because we don't need anything on the driver's side right now
and i'm sure many of you are going to wonder eric where are you going to put five lithium
battle-borne batteries and all the components of your solar system in this rv because i only
have one compartment on this rb that's really for storage and that is this rear corner one however
uh wayne and i did a little bit of research and we found something interesting about this compartment
right here you see it turns out there was a bunch of wasted space we still got to take out
a few more boards but this is still going to be storage the false wall that we removed on the bed
opened up this whole area here so we've got three batteries in front of the water heater remember
all this was closed off and just completely unused space from the manufacturer they just didn't think
we'd ever want to use it so we opened it up and actually that these boards come off this is where
the bed is up here so he can do some work from the compartment and also do some from the top as
far as hooking up the batteries but what he's going to get everything installed the charge
charge controller there we also ordered a dc to dc charger for lithium batteries that will be
the only component that will be new in this system that i didn't have on miranda that's because while
the engine's running the alternator's sending that current to the old dc batteries which uh exist
underneath this step right there well since we have lithium batteries have that coming on monday
as well as a couple other parts and if wayne needs any wire i'll have to order that as well
but he's going to be working in this compartment mainly there i'm just going to leave him alone
and i'll get back to you later on that my projects i got black betty here in the shop because of the
rain i'm going to do the same thing i did on uh my camper van and i'm gonna be cutting these up to go
over the power door lock and window locks of frida so the kitties don't lock me in or out or roll the
windows down while we're driving and then i'm also going to be recharging the air filter on black
betty here probably going to soak it overnight as well that's the plan i'll get back to you
again wayne will have more details in his video but uh he took out one of these and kind of used
it as a template and he's building a piece back there out of 5 8 plywood much much more durable
to be able to hold some components against that wall because this just wasn't it wasn't going to
cut it so he's building that let him do his thing meanwhile i'm over here and yes this is the most
redneck fix ever but you know what all it takes is one time for your cat or dog to lock you out
of your vehicle while you're outside by stepping on the locker unlock and you didn't bring your
keys because you're just you're just dumping the trash you know so uh it'll work i think
there's plenty of i was thinking i might need one more piece of support in the middle there but uh
i'm just hot glued it on it can be it can be removed if need be or replaced later on
but um you know the cats will walk from the dash and step on here and it'll be fine all right i
got the filter cleaned got some new oil put on it i'm just going to let it dry before putting the uh
little filter back on it i'm not gonna fire it up tonight probably tomorrow that was easy as
for wayne over here got the uh charge controller mounted hooked into the shunt partially there
so it's coming along in here hell yeah doing good work man i moved the kitties into the shop here
because uh wayne's using his impact driver quite a bit how the kitty's doing i didn't want you to
get all freaked out with all the noises opie i don't understand why can i be in my own rv man
man lady how you doing you gonna hide you still mad at me tara hi tara it's for the
best i didn't want you to get all freaked out and scared and stressed you're a good girl though
yeah you're a good girl so i realize this may not be a very entertaining
video a little different than my normal travel style videos but uh if you put yourself in my
shoes this is so exciting to finally getting this last project knocked off so that i can
go enjoy the road and not have to plug into power all the time we still got to figure out if we're
actually going to get all four solar panels on the roof so stay tuned guys i will give you an
update here really really soon from tara and opie and i will see in the next video bye guys
you