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Van Cleaning and Prep Day
Today was a less intense day to just slowly work through some cleaning and get our tools ready for the work to do the van conversion. We are still in the deconstruction part of the van build, which is on our Econoline E250.
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Our New Ford Econoline E-250 Camper Van
We bought a model 2000 Ford Econoline E250 to convert it into a camper van. It may be the cool #vanlife hashtag now, but we have done this before when we converted a Greyhound Bus into an RV.
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Removing Seats from a Econoline Passenger Van
Today we started removing the seats and all the stuff attached to the seats. We must have removed hundreds of pounds of seats and hardware. The steel bolts and bracket themselves weighed a ton.
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Cleaning and Removing Door Panels from Van
We’ve only had the van a few days but we started working on getting the inside cleaned out and removing the door panels to clean and recover. Edgar helped a lot.
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We Bought a Ford Econoline E250 Van
We bought a well used Ford Econoline E250 extended van to make into a camper van. This may be a little van life and a little rv life but it’s a lot like what we did with the bus only on a smaller scale. Driving the Van Home Van Photos
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Greyhound MCI-9 Bus Conversion We Called Home
The post for this Throwback Thursday is an “On This Day 10 Years Ago” post (from this point forward OTDTYA), which I now realize is actually getting into a time period that is presented on my blog. The very first posts on my blog were in March 2001, which we posted three articles about our…
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Our Bus Conversion MCI MC-9, Detroit Diesel 6V92, Allison Transmission
For more reasons than can be expressed, we are selling our bus that we called home for more than 5 years. It has been up in Colorado for the last two years and needs a new home. Below is how it was listed on eBay. It was a successful auction and the new owner now…
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Getting a Washer and Dryer for the Bus
What a wonderful birthday I had this year! Thirty nine is not so bad when you have people around you that love you and a Father in heaven who guides you. Scott and I celebrated my birthday this year by installing a new washer and dryer in the bus. They work like a dream! No…
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Installing Kitchen Lights in the Bus
These posts seem to be out of order, a bit, however, here is a look at the lighting we added to the cabinets in the kitchen. Posts about the cabinet construction are also on this blog somewhere.
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Interior Woodwork in the Bus
The first of our interior walls have been constructed and installed. In the photos below, you can see that Scott’s desk area has been formed inside the bedroom. In the lower photos, you can see the bed frame/pedestal has also been installed. The bed pedestal is a plywood platform that sits on a frame and…
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