2012 E-350 EB V10, 4x4, CCV Top

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Final Touches

There were a several small projects I needed to finish on the van before we leave on our 3 week trip through Lake Tahoe and then up to the Columbia River Gorge.

I didn’t do a great job of documenting the details with pictures, but they are pretty simple projects.

First was taking advantage of the space available on the upper half of the barn doors. Earlier I had installed a vinyl covered panel. I build a couple of spice racks/shelfs to mount below the paper towel dispenser on the 40 door. I included a couple of bungee cords to hold everything tight when shutting the door or during travel.

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On the 60 door I added a maple board with several small spring clamps. We will use these to hold hats, hand towels, etc. I also added mirror with a swivel arm to keep the princess happy. She likes to look at herself.

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I could not find a hand towel rack that I liked. Everything was too large and the wrong color/finish. I wanted something clean and simple. So I built one from some 1/4” metal rod and a couple of 2” metal disk that I welded to the bent metal rod.

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I added a bungee net in the nose of the poptop. Since at this location there is just a 1/4” of fiberglass covered with carpet, I could not screw anything to the poptop. So I made a frame to hold the netting and then used Velcro to attach it to the carpet. I am not too sure how well this will hold up, but we only plan to put light weight items there (jackets, towels, etc). It does take advantage of some wasted space.

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I made a couple of fabric covered wood and foam pieces that will fill in a few gaps between the finished walls and the cab of the van.

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And finally a picture of the grandkids. The frame is a license plate frame that our son had made for us.

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I still Need to figure out how to add some AMP Powersteps, but that will have to wait for a while.

We leave on our trip tomorrow, so we can see how the van works for us on a longer trip.