I'm working in my shop today I got two projects going on here at the same time
this one you're looking at is the shelf and my Volvo above the drivers and
passenger's seat it's just an open shelf and you got to be real careful what you
put up there it's got to be something soft like paper towels or you know
sponges because when you hit a bump things fall off of that shelf and hit
you on the head and my head is broke a couple of things because I got a hard
head you know anyway this is almost ready to go out and and try to fit it up
there and see if I got to do any trimming or a whittling no there's no
straight edges up there it's all slight curves and and little angle is that I I
think I got it right but yeah that's gonna have three doors in it when I get
it fitted right and I'm going to cut the doors uh there's three compartments up
there three compartments and the shelves so I'm going to cut me three doors the
middle one is the bigger one and I don't know if you can see this line here this
is this is one on the left and I'm going to cut a door here one in the middle and
one on the end and I got some really nice hardware for it stain it
polyurethane it it's gonna look real nice and the other project I'm working
on is this here my truck is an automatic and it's got a shift pad that's about
four by maybe seven and it's inside this big plastic housing that I have no idea
why Volvo thought they had to make this gigantic monster ASSA T that he takes up
about half the room between the seats that you've got a sewing your legs
around when you get into the seat or out of the seat and it's a really in the way
that's one of the problems the second problem is uh my dog when she jumps up
onto the seat when we're out of the truck kicks it into gear because it's
just a pressure touch pad you know you you pressed a little
button and it goes into drive or neutral or reverse and I gotta stop that because
it's only happened fortunately when the truck has been parked but actually
that's not true she kicked it into neutral in time while we were going down
the road and I've got the third problem with that shifter pad is it's lit up and
it puts this reflection on the windshield that is just super super
annoying and the longer the night goes on the more tired your eyes get the more
annoying that green reflection on the windshield is so I've made this covered
I'm gonna hinge it to the side it mounts to the seat on the side from the side
here and I'm gonna have this hinge out that way so you can close it at night
I'll have a lid for it everything and I keep the reflection off the windshield
and keep the dog from kicking it in a neutral so that's my second project and
I do have a third project that uh I'm hoping I'll get to and that's in one of
the closets I'm trying to build a shelf in the closet with a drawer on the
bottom of the shelf that'll slide in out and but uh I'm gonna get this finished
first and then I'm gonna get this mounted and finished and I got time I
want to do that drawer in the closet and I'm fixing to take this out to the truck
right now not that yes and fit it see if it'll slide up in there and if it does
and I'm gonna come back and cut the door holes I'm gonna do that out here well if
I can lay it flat and get the doors mounted and Hardware on and then screw
it in there and the final fitting when it's all fits perfect I'm gonna stain it
and polyurethane it and I'll show you that when it's done see I've made some
real progress today this is uh this is it I got a hardware mounted everything's
ready to go all the doors open and close I've got to get some catches that will
screw on right here when you close it and hold it shut I need two for this and
put all the hardware on just to make sure everything fits before I stain it
I'm gonna remove all the hinges and hardware and stain it polyurethane it
and let it dry a couple days and mount it I'm looking forward to it it's gonna
be nice not not having things falling my head and uh they've got the lid for my
shifter box made tomorrow I'll sand it down put hinge on it and mount it to
that and I mean he's been thinking about the bottom of the box thinking about
making a bottom that'll screw onto it and up on the end of it cut a little
hole in there for a coffee cup be a closer than having to reach towards the
dashboard to get my coffee and I'm just having fun out here made a mess got to
use a whole bunch of tools and still snowing out and the boy is it cold in
here I'll be back out here tomorrow to stain it and put a coat of polyurethane
on it see ya there's the shelf that I'm going to turn into cabinets kind of dark
in here but uh you get the idea and here is the closet that I'm gonna try to
figure out a way to makes a drawer for maybe the top half of it at the top
third for socks and underwear stuff like that because my wife is short you can't
reach these top cabinets anyway that's my third project
and this is that god-awful big chunk of plastic attached to the seat and there's
not a whole lot of room between the front edge of that and that cup holder
and I'm a a man of girth and it's hard to get behind the seat sometimes because
uh it's just not enough room so the little box on making is probably less
than half the size of this here and it's going to put it closer into the seat and
a lot lower and I'll be able to get around around it a little easier
there's the shelf that I'm going to turn into cabinets kind of dark in here but
uh you get the idea and here is the closet that I'm going to try to figure
out a way to makes a drawer for maybe the top half of it at the top third for
socks and underwear stuff like that because my wife is short you can't reach
these top cabinets anyway that's my third project and this is that god-awful
big chunk of plastic attached to the seat and there's not a whole lot of room
between the front edge of that and that cup holder and I'm a a man of girth and
it's hard to get behind the seat sometimes because uh it's just not
enough room so the little box on making is probably less than half the size of
this here and it's going to put it closer into the seat and a lot lower and
I'll be able to get around around it a little easier man that come out kind of
nice if I do say so myself here's the shifter box these bolts here
go all the way through to the inside I made this spacer this is going to bolt
to the side of the seat here made the lid attached it with a hand of Pi any
hinge a PI any and that what I said on The Beverly Hillbillies with a cement
pool and a PI any piano anyway this is it now all I got to do is Mount the
little catches that are gonna hold these door closed but that'll only take me a
second I got them right here had to pick them up yesterday and a couple of
minutes and I will be in the truck installing this okay I've got my
brackets up that are gonna hold the cabinet face I'm going to screw to them
and I'm fixing it hoist it up in there tighten it down all right it's mounted
it's solid as a rock the doors are being held shut really
tight so nothing's gonna fall out of here I'm real proud of that
alright next I'm gonna be working on that box there I mean I got I got it out
here and everything I got to take this apart undo the wires that go to it
drill some holes and bolt that or this is bolted and won't be done out here I
am going to work on making the the drawer for in here very soon but I may
say that for a project when I come home again because I still have to do a
little bit of mechanical work to this thing nothing major
I got shocks on the back of my sleeper that are loose and when the cab bounces
up and down it rattles and squeaks and I got to get under there and do that and I
got a leak somewhere and air leak I paid Volvo to find it and of course
they charged me charged me through the nose and didn't fix it so that's just
another thing I'm gonna have to do myself okay when I get that shifter
mounted I do a short clip on that and and put this up see and I just had the
mother of all ideas I'll explain well this nasty under here nasty I'm
embarrassed for you to see that and all that dust and dog hair jeez okay here's
what I'm just discovered this seat has Heat the base in the back heat I know
truck is a tough life it also massages and anyway this is the wire that
provides the electricity for the heat and over here on the side down down the
side here there's a little switch that cuts it on and off and I listen to my
music on my iPhone just about all the time going down the road
and I go through electricity it runs through the battery really quick so I
have to plug the iPhone into the cigarette lighter so there's one
cor going all the way across the aisle to the seat to our light phone is or I
leave the phone near the dashboard and run the headphones over there and the
headphone cord always gets in the way of my arm when I'm steering so when I put
this new box here I'm gonna mount a 12 volt cigarette lighter plug so I can
charge my phone there without having these cords go all the way across to the
dashboard and I'll be able to power it using that cord and I'll be able to cut
it on and off using the switch that's already there and I'm gonna go up to
Autozone and find me a 12 volt socket and I'm gonna do that right now okay see
it well I've been messing with this all day but I finally got it done it took me
like three hours you ever have one of them little projects where you expect it
to go kind of easy and then you run into a little problem that leads to another
problem and between fixing that problem you create another problem and jeez it's
just got worse and worse and worse and I had to take this whole box apart a
little bit and read drill some holes and take the seat apart to get my nuts in
there and what a nightmare but it's on and I'm real happy with it it takes up
about half the space and then my dog won't put it into gear while we're
sleeping and wake up it go to sleep at one end of the parking lot and wake up
at another that's not a good thing okay I'm picking up my tools I'm gonna clean
my mess up and going in the house see ya there's a little update about my
shifter box I did a video on that already
but what I've added is this pocket right here that my cell phone will slip down
into and I put a 12-volt get screwed to the bottom of it and my
plug for my phone will go up here and I'd be able to plug my phone in right
here and all the wires will be out of the way and have a pair of Motorola
stereo headphones that I can listen to my music and talk on the phone with so
there's no cords between the seat and the dashboard and I've got that 12 volt
plug wired into the old seat heat and well that's going to be handy because
then plugs sure have been in the way over the time my dog got tangled up in
them and when you go to steer around a corner or something your arms get
tangled up in them and they're just always in the way and that's gonna be
handy see ya