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hey guys Nick iserman here with Van
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Builder HQ wanted to invite you to a new
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DIY camper van conversion course that
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I'm putting together it's called the
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camper van conversion blueprint and uh I
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got some notes right here because
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there's a bunch of stuff that is in this
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course and what we're going to do is
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we're going to walk around this van
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build that I'm doing right now um just
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to show you that there's a lot of things
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that go into a DIY camper van conversion
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although I'm doing a professional build
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this will translate into helping you
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guys out with your own DIY van
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conversion so let's just go right
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through and talk about what you can
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expect to get from this course first
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thing uh is a getting started area so
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when you're looking at a van either
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you're shopping for a van or it's a new
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van it's a used van it's a high roof
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medium low roof uh the engine size is uh
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different so maybe you want to do a
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bigger smaller engine and then finally
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the load capacity you know how much
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stuff are you going to put in your van
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um can your van handle that
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so we're going to do that in the getting
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started portion it's going to help you
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find out you know what van you want to
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go with um we'll have a bunch of details
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to help you out with
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that uh that goes along with uh choosing
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the vehicle whether you want two wheel
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drive all-wheel drive you know what kind
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of capabilities do you want in this van
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um then we'll roll right into design and
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layout so this van that I'm working on
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right now this is a 2020 Ford Transit
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High roof all-wheel drive and and
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everything's kind of taken apart but I
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thought it might be a good idea to show
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you that you know this is what you're
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getting into when you do a camper van
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conversion it's going to look like this
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sometimes it's going to look like a mess
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but it's all like this so that when it
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comes together it's going to be the van
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of your
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dreams uh speaking of layout um step
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right up here and just take a quick look
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at inside the
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van so this van this is pretty wild
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right there's a lot of stuff that you're
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going to be getting into when you start
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to do this van conversion and a DIY
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camper van conversion course is a great
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place to start um by helping you map out
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what you might be getting
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into so in the design and layout uh part
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of the course we're going to talk about
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what decisions were made behind the
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scenes to have our power system over
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here have our water system our kitchen
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gley and even additional seating for
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your kids friends family
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um all that's really important because
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once you get to a certain point in the
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van uh you kind of can't go back you've
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made some hard decisions so I'll help
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you walk it through the design and
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layout and make it uh really easy so you
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can map out that vision and figure out
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what you want to do with your camper an
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conversion uh we'll talk about off-grid
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power system design so this over here is
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a 600 amp hour offgrid power system not
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only does it have that much capacity
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Wheels I'll teach you how to find out
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how much capacity you need how to invert
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that to household power and then also
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how to do all the wiring and all those
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bits uh in
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between um over here on this uh side
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over here we've got some plumbing and
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now we're just quickly going through
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this video so we won't get into details
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obviously but we've got some gray water
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tank drains uh we'll talk about how to
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uh put together stay right there this up
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real
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quick we'll do a whole entire section on
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RV water tanks so we'll show you what
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this thing is what different capacities
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that you guys can expect to find in the
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market and then tailor it to what you
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actually need in your van so there's a
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ton of these definitely helps out to
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have uh a professional opinion on which
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one would work best for you whether you
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want it outside the van or you want to
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do something that is like this
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where you can have something like this
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inside your van um for convenience or
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say you want to go to Alaska and you
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don't want to deal with your tanks
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freezing underneath your
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van stuff like that um if we come back
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here to the back of the van let's talk a
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little bit about insulation and sound
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dampening so behind this so this van
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what we're doing is there
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are pre done insulating panels in this
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van this is actually an adventure wagon
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kit so you can buy kits as a DIY but
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there's a lot of stuff behind the scenes
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on you know how do you put the stuff
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together and I'll go through what's
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behind all of this so the sound uh
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deadening that's in the floor that's in
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the walls we'll also talk about the
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insulation whether you want to use havac
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wool or 3M thelate there's all kinds of
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different products to talk about
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and then one thing that's fun that a lot
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of people like to get into are the
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exterior
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upgrades so that could be anything from
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a tire carrier uh one thing that is
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important about a tire carrier is that
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if you oversize your tires they're not
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going to fit in the spare tire wheel
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well of your van and you're going to
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have to put it outside your van so
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talking about accessories like this the
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details in how to actually install this
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and then
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other components such as this uh kind of
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Adventure style box these additional
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racks additional exterior
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storage
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um so this right here
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is if I have this thing actually
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unlocked there you
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go talking about why this is important
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to have exterior storage you know if you
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have wet clothes items from fishing
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swimming uh hiking stuff you want to
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keep outside uh outside of the van so
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you don't stink up the inside of the van
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additional accessories like this really
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make a big
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difference uh we'll wrap around here to
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the front so we've got some other
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accessories this is a raptor style grill
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grill and then we'll finish it up up
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here with the uh this is the roof racked
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area so I'm going to grab the
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camera and not only do we have the this
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ladder here but as we hop up here to the
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top of the van you can see we've got
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additional solar Max fan more solar and
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a dedic RTX 2000 AC unit and we have a
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we boost which is a cell phone signal
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booster and on the other side we've got
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a small awning and then we've got a fi
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f45 on the other
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side so the reason that the exterior
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accessories such as a roof rack is so
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important is
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because when you go to map out the top
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of your van you're going to commit to
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cutting out a hole in your van that can
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be pretty stressful so having some help
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and guidance to figure out where you
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want the vent fan to be where you want
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the AC to be and uh where those holes
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are going to be because once you cut it
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you can't redo it
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so uh talking about that and then uh
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we'll actually roll from exterior access
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accessories into safety items so making
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sure that you're not overloading the
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weight of your vehicle you're not
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overloading the weight of your roof
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there is a limit to how much you can put
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on your roof that's going to change the
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vehicle Dynamics and it'll make uh we'll
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go over what's safe to drive you know on
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the highway at 80 M an
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hour how much weight that you actually
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have in your van um all that stuff goes
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together so we'll talk about that so
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that'll be our safety part um and then
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we're going to talk about uh finalizing
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your build we'll go go over Insurance
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we'll go over financing we'll go over uh
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other safety requirements uh talk about
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you
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know getting your van ready for that
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first trip on the road loading it up uh
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what kind of accessories you want to
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have to have nice comfortable experience
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and um yeah and then what we'll do is we
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will uh we'll finish up with something
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that we're calling our private online
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access community so this is essentially
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a forum where you guys can and go chat
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with each other ask questions and um I'm
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actually going to hop in there I'll be
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answering your questions as well we're
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going to take questions from the YouTube
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channel we'll take questions from our
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chat and our blog we'll roll all that
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into the online community and you guys
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will have just a place to go to hang out
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ask questions exchange ideas and
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um I think it'll be very helpful for you
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so uh yeah this is the DIY keran
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conversion course and right now you can
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pre-order order this course today and
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you can save uh some money and that's
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just as thank you for getting this
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course out there and uh it's going to be
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launching October 1st so I don't want
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you to miss out make sure you guys go to
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Van Builder hq.com pre-order the course
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today and uh yeah can't wait to see you
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in the course
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