Hi we're Philly and Lidia and in this video we're going to show you guys how we start the
van build on this super rare Ford Van that's a pathfinder 4x4 woo let's get right into it it's
going to be a lot of work guys careful with Obama baby brake lines snapped off
This is a little too much work In a previous video we showed you how we rushed to oregon to buy this
rare vintage 4x4 van for a hell of a deal doesn't look too bad it's basically a barn find and we're
pretty lucky that we found it this is HotBox a 1979 Ford Econoline she might not be too pretty
on the outside but on the inside she's got a 460 big block and a complete Pathfinder four wheel
drive conversion making her damn near priceless with a little bit of work this thing could be
extremely valuable we immediately pulled her in the shop and officially began the build process
First up is the oil change with a deep inspection and here's a quick peek of the list I came up with
then onto a trans service
The transmission fluid smelled a little funky so running a service was definitely a must
Trust me I'm a professional and I know exactly what I'm doing
Oh man it looks like a murder scene I made a mess
Next was a full tune-up
All right so as you can see hotbox is all tuned up these are all the parts that we
replace spark plugs fuel pressure regulator o2 sensor cap and rotor and all the plug wires here
they were uh pretty old so we went ahead and put all new stuff on there and after that I jacked up
the vehicle to get a real close look at the brakes the pedal would slowly lose pressure so I needed
to replace the master cylinder as brake fluid gets old it has a tendency to absorb moisture
as you can see the fluid was really watery and not as thick like hydraulic fluid should be plus
like sugar cube it was full of gunk yep that's not good just look at that would you look at it
all right real quick when I was pulling the master cylinder off I don't know if you can see that the
brake line snapped off at the connection where it goes in the master cylinder it's uh rusty
it's a 1979 so these things are kind of expected so whatIi'm gonna do I'm gonna show you guys a
quick easy fix where you add a compression fitting you cut the line and you put this in between with
the new line and the old line that way you don't have to replace the whole entire brake line and
deal with bending it and breaking it and putting flares and cutting the pipe tubing this is the
compression fitting it's literally like a couple dollars at the auto parts store so I'm just gonna
throw this in there as a quick fix and get it back on the road and I'll show you guys how I
do that real quick after adding a short new line you just place the nut and pinch ring over the
line on both sides then continue to tighten it down super quick easy and most of all super cheap
Then the wheels go back on and we're good to go as far as the mechanics go
All right today we're gonna gut the van get everything out of here yeah guys I think we're
gonna start by unscrewing all the screws here on the wood and it's probably gonna be very
fast because Philip has his own drill and I have mine yeah so I think we're gonna be very fast
let's get it yeah this time guys we have some masks and hopefully safety first yeah it was
pretty nasty the last time we Sugar Cube yeah we learned from that one there's so much trash like
and dust let's get to it it's already a little tall huh yeah it's already pretty jacked up kind
of alright so i'm gonna start oh my gosh guys look at this dude oh what is that baby has a lost nest
we gotta make sure we clean this up real good we don't want bees in here some weird animal you
know oh hi guys you guys look at that what is that babe yeah those are all wasps that's what probably
all came from the nest oh my gosh you guys look at that window wow yeah there was there was problem
in this one that's for sure guys yeah yeah look it's all like mildewy I can already smell it
that makes me sneeze every five minutes that's why we're gonna wear the masks
guys safety first you know yeah yeah we're gonna remove all the door panels the floors
the ceiling these rails we gotta take this window trim off because it's in front of the wood so yeah
a lot of work to do let's get to it yeah let's get it guys like i said guys it's gonna be very easy
Yeah guys right now everything is super itchy we're to the point where we're like removing
all this foam and it's so much that it's really hard to get and we're using pry bars and stuff
and every time we break a piece it's like a dust of like
you know all this foam is so disgusting though it's just no pleasant yeah so much
Oh my gosh guys this is just super it's like super dusty and it's like it never ends it's
like so much and there's still a lot in the walls that I have to you know remove that is
all this stuff everything has to come off guys everything has to be very metal and clean before
we keep doing next step you know it's gonna be a lot of work guys we're sweating it's summer guys
it is hot yeah so pretty much we got everything off the walls and now we just have the floor
to do we're gonna clean everything up real good yeah yeah we're gonna clean all these
walls so we can roll all the insulation guys you'll see stay tuned make sure to subscribe
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think we're crazy or if you would do this too you know it's kind of fun kind of exhausting
it's like a weird feeling yeah i already know we're we're crazy this is a little too much work
All right time to remove the floors
Damn it some of them are stripped stripped and rusted oh no all right the wood is
coming up there is a screw that you didn't see or something oh no stripped one oh no way all right
All right
All right now that was away oh look at how much she is careful with obama
Baby
I don't like that
All right that's the last piece
You've got it well minus the seats we're just going to take the seats out in the whole front
and clean and then we'll have a blank canvas ready for uh creative stuff yeah look at that fully
gutted yeah now I'm like sweeping a little bit the big big and then I'm gonna vacuum everything
every little corner and yeah so far so good yeah if every time you get a project like this is
way more things that you expect so yeah now we're kind of overwhelmed because we're seeing reality
and yeah it's definitely gonna take way longer than we thought
let's uh work until 2am tonight probably yeah why not get her done
That's good for the back
Yeah there you go yeah a lot of 70s though is like you gotta
replace like a huge chunk of the floor next okay So the van build has officially started we got it
all torn apart we did a bunch of maintenance to it and got it mechanically sound and running pretty
good so yeah but unfortunately we don't have good news after cleaning everything we realize we have
a little bit more work than we anticipated and things are not looking that
bright in the future so we are going to have to work harder than we expected so
yeah unfortunately we uncovered a lot more issues but that's going to be for the next video so if
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