hey guys welcome back to shop talk this is a special shop talk because it is our wrap-up to our
tundra build we are shipping this truck tomorrow to expo west and we just have a few more things
left to put in here some things to refine and wrap up so we just wanted to give you guys a quick tour
of the inside before the goose gear cabinetry goes in because right now you can see it really well
then we're going to put the goose gear stuff in get that all buttoned up and done
there's going to be some refining to do a few little things here and there that
we'll probably get to later but this is essentially the entire build right now
on the driver's side of the alley cab we have our redarc red vision screen and panel
with manager 30 all nicely nestled away up here we have our wabasto smart temp
controller we want to put it a little bit higher so it gets a more accurate temperature reading
plus with this hatch open you'll be able to reach down and control it from your tent we
were kind of scratching our heads on what to do with the twin air dual air compressor and this is
our solution we came up with i built just a very simple straight down bracket that bolts to the
bed mounts the compressor and the tank together just braided airline up to the chuck right there
we left plenty of slack in case we need to run it differently that is all tied into our dual battery
system which is our house batteries these are 100 amp hour battleborn self-heated lithium batteries
wired in parallel so they are 200 amp hour total we have a 150 amp breaker we can disconnect it and
we can basically service add or remove anything we want without any power going to the system
coming around we have our wabasto evo gasoline heater so that is being fueled off of a fuel stem
pipe that's wired that's installed directly into our main fuel tank it'll run very very efficiently
so we're never worried about running out of fuel or it pulling too much fuel out of our gas tank
and that as of right now is the inside of the bed next i want to show you guys is i'm going to be
putting power to this whole system and we're going to do an initial setup on
our red vision to tell the system what kind of batteries it has what it needs to know
for charging because we have wall plug we have shore power charge option and solar and
alternator from the battery so that system needs to know it is charging 200 amp hours of lithium
so it knows what kind of algorithm to send to these batteries also it'll give us an accurate
readout of how much battery life is left in the system so i'm going to engage my breaker
and there's the screen check it out so we have power will bosto controller is powered on
so now the first thing it's asking is confirm battery settings okay okay so now this system
is completely fresh we still need to program it for all of the inputs that we have for
side lights bumper bar rock lights interior lights
usb ports but this is this the very first initial setup next thing i want to do so this
system can learn the batteries i'm going to plug it into shore power plug that in
and it should if we wake it up yep so it's going up to 120 volts 118 volts
so now the whole system is getting charged it's learning
eventually it'll show percentage here once it learns yeah it's up and running okay
now we need to move all of our cabinetry and live in goose gear systems in
and then all this will go away why i wanted to show it to you guys ahead of time
this is what i'm looking at in here is where bosto heater's sitting in raven our bosto basically was
flush right here so we're gonna have to come out the end we're gonna put a filler plate in there
but in here the wabasto out take where the hot air comes out is nestled back in there so we're
gonna do a 90 degree elbow and we're going to put a adjustable vent in the side of our goose gear
plate here so i was just doing a quick mock-up to make sure that we're going to have the clearance
for it looks like we are so that'll be my next thing in the goose gear install in orion here
with the majority components of the build now complete we just have a few final items to add
before orion is ready to head to flagstaff for expo west next up is to install the national
luna fridge mount the full size spare and attach the factor 55 winch hook then we will give our
now fully built tundra a quick test run to see how it handles relative to stock performance
it still feels amazing like so many of our trucks we have even with being re-geared you
can just tell that they just have weight on which i mean they do rightfully so this thing
i mean it driving its stock versus driving it like this it feels very similar extremely happy
hey guys we're back from expo we had a great time
last week seeing everybody hanging out down there but now we have a week before all the
trucks need to be ready to ship to europe for our nordic series so the tundra's got a few more
quick things we got to throw on it and just refine our systems and it'll be ready to go
the final touches to the build are the jerry can install
and the addition of extra charging ports within the alu cab cabin
tanner installs six dual usb ports on the goose gear shelving unit the addition of these extra
charging ports allows orion to become a fully independent production vehicle separate from
atakin tanner begins this install by wiring a breaker switch to an anderson plug from the
battery the anderson plug is connected to one of the chargers which is linked to the rest of them
creating a seamless and clean way to disconnect power to all of the chargers when required
nice
now it's time for the fun part an off-highway shakedown to fine-tune our build even more
tomorrow orion along with the rest of our chosen xo
fleet we'll ship out to europe to begin the nordic expedition
so
be sure to make plans to see orion in action by watching our all-new 10-part nordic series
coming out in january of 2023 meanwhile thanks for tuning in to our 2022 gen 3 tundra build
and until next time keep learning stay inspired and when the opportunity of adventure knocks
kick that door open see you next time on shop talk