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We shopped around and around for an awning, and we ultimately purchased a legless awning from Girard. The model is GG750. They use O'bravia fabric. O'bravia fabric can be recycled, which is awesome. Very few people have put these awnings onto a Sprinter, so it's been a bit challenging. I had...

I know, right!? It was treated with teak oil to seal it. It's not food-safe, but that's alright, we don't prep food directly on the counter anyways.

So follow me around to the other side of the refrigerator. Grab a beer on your way by if you like. I made up a panel that's essentially a picture frame, if you can imagine the plywood in the center is the picture. It's just a canvas really, to showcase our choice of paint color. It took some...

Alright alright alright. So, we've gone over pretty much of all the systems and utilities at this point. For me, that's pretty much the bulk of the thinking work, so it feels like this is the point where we've crossed somewhat of a totally arbitrary threshold. Doesn't actually exist. But I do...

Let's talk water. Shall we? We shall. It's actually a necessary ingredient for life, if you didn't know. On the other side of the coin is the fact that 100% of people who have ever died contained water, but we'll ignore that until later. We're going to be in remote areas, so we prioritized a...

Before I get to more of my own progress, I just want to jot down a little update on the flares and windows situation. So, the first window that was put in - the one in the passenger's side flare that was never supposed to be there - was done wrong, if you remember. The window was installed...

Thank you, that's really kind.

Alright so then I bit off almost more than I could chew. Typing this over breakfast feels too ominous. Let's say I took on a project that was overwhelming. In itself, it wasn't awful, but I was actually installing it in parallel with the alternator and it was a lot all at once. My logic was that...

We worked at insulating spaces as we went through the build. It kind of has to be a parallel process. You can't just insulate the ceiling, because the ceiling itself holds the insulation in place. But you can't install the ceiling until all the wires are run. And so on, until you realize you...

Alright let's get into the meat and potatoes of this build, shall we? Meat meaning electricity, and potatoes of course being more electricity? IDFK. Ultimately, we decided not to install solar panels on this rig. We wanted to. We planned to. How cool is that - you can literally turn sunlight...

Glad you enjoy! I guess I'll keep going. So anyway. That's basically all the BS out of the way, I think. It was a struggle in some ways. A lot of roadblocks or downtime would crop up right as I got into flow. And a lot of the early work is stuff you can't even see, too. So, of the times I could...

Good luck and congrats! I don't understand what the point of the MSRP is if the M charges more than their own SRP. That's kind of annoying but still excited for you.

What came next; the chicken or the egg? Oh. So we had issues with the power sliding door. Some of you may or may not have suffered the same. There's some posts sprinter-source.com under VS30 Tech where it seems like several people are experiencing several issues. Not all the symptoms are the...

While we were dealing with the back and forth of the van getting windows, not getting windows, getting flares and more flares, etc., I did actually get some stuff accomplished. But also before all that. I think it was the very firstmost thing we did - we installed a ladder and spare tire carrier...

If you're near Massachusetts and trying to install flares or windows, send me a message. I'm not here to publicly blast anyone, but I do understand the need to know before you go.

So, let me tell you a frickin' STORY. This one's a doozy. And there's not many pictures. Sorry. Skipping over a lot of the planning details for now, we're installing Flarespace flares on this thing. Well, by "installing" I mean paying someone else to install them. That's the literal translation...

So you want to read about another van build, huh? What makes this one so different from all the others? Probably nothing. But you like reading the same story over and over. That's cool, I don't judge. Strap in for some reading before we get to the pictures. If you want. Or just scroll down to...

Hey, I'll second the previous post. There's a lot of great info on sprinter-source.com. I'm working on porting over our build thread from there to here to reach more people. Click here if you want to check it out in the meantime. Our build is finished now, but we certainly had a overlanding...

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