Finishing the 4x4 Camper Van Frame and Bumpers!

another day another power wheels build uh today i'm going to start chopping up these plastics [Music] [Music] i've done some chopping because we need to move this fender opening thing back to here luckily uh walmart screwed up and we ended up with two of these things i can cut pieces out of that body and add them into this one and uh see if i can get better at plastic welding it's probably one of my least favorite things to do but you know gotta get some practice somehow [Music] [Applause] [Music] i've got this piece cut out of the other body and uh it's just taped in here real quick i'm not gonna you know actually stick it together until i figure out what's going on with the rest of it but that fender looks a little bit more like where it's supposed to be huh now i have to figure out the back half of it which this is what was there um but this swoopy thing doesn't really line up with anything back here so i'm actually going to take this piece which is what was here out of the other side and see essentially if i turn it around and do something like that [Music] oh i sure hope this all works got our harbor freight plastic welder here better than the harbor freight plastic welder we used last time it's the uh it's the expensive one uh i've never used this style before it has like it runs a little bit air through it so you don't actually have to touch it to the plastic which is good because then we won't have as much melting plastic so i'm gonna just try to stick these two random scraps together and kind of get used to it but uh i've got myself a piece of plastic welding rod here aka a little strip peeled off of one of these scraps so see how it works [Music] the worst idea i've ever had in my entire life i should have learned when we plastic welded cindy [Music] you'll never last [Music] it's a pulse and shove well this is going approximately terrible plastic welding is not my skill but i don't know i figured out a slightly better technique to get a little bit better of a finish you know this part in here you know sand it down a little bit that wouldn't look terrible but the problem is uh all it would take to knock this panel off is a couple of mice sitting here on the tire and sneezing at it so yeah less than ideal [Music] i've entirely given up on the plastic welding the epoxy uh works better is a stronger bond it's easier to use and also even though it's the wrong color it still looks better way better i don't know why i ever tried the uh plastic welding but this is better buy a lot [Music] got everything hot glued in place and i've epoxied the outside seams now i'm taking a couple pieces of this uh wire mesh screen expanded metal stuff and i'm epoxying it onto the back side of these seams for some super duper extra rigidity it should actually be quite durable assuming this epoxy is as good as i think it is i'm putting a lot of faith in it right now but it seems like it's good and jb weld products have been good for me in the past so i will choose to trust it we'll see how strong it is when it all dries but that's a ten times better result in like half the time compared to plastic welding less than half the time epoxy and hot glue and uh some creativity goes a long way also uh side note this just came in the mail this is a synthetic winch rope for our winch so that next time we winch up into a tree it doesn't sound like death happening uh and also weight reduction this is truly satisfying weight reduction because you get a longer lasting safer product that weighs significantly less so i'm gonna replace that real quick oh that's yummy see and that's why steel cables are terrible that was probably the noises that it was making when i was winching myself up the tree that's comforting that's like an eighty percent reduction in weight i'm gonna say this is probably like a pound and a half maybe two pounds of cable what do you think more than a pound yeah for sure but more importantly this just looks better sounds better and it's safer because it won't like impale your fingers with slices of metal and it also if it breaks it has way less inertia so it doesn't like cut you in half so there's that those are good things so the mail just showed up which means it's time to talk about bespoke post who's sponsoring this video bespoke post is a monthly membership club that gives you super high quality stuff from under the radar brands and it's free to join i've had a lifelong obsession with machetes so this is very exciting not bad so every month you get a box assigned to you with a preview of what's inside based on your quiz that you took and you can decide whether you want to receive that box exchange it for another one or choose not to get a box at all the box lineup changes every month and each box contains over 70 dollars of value for only 45 dollars this machete actually feels super awesome there's uh a lot of factors in a good machete but a really big one especially for chopping larger stuff like this is whether or not it vibrates and this thing is nice and thick and heavy so when you hit a solid chunk it doesn't send that energy into your hand in the form of vibrations it just chops through your tree so to get 20 off your first box click our link in the description and enter code ghpc20 at checkout knocking out a sponsor video and getting some firewood in the process every month bespoke post introduces their members to really cool new products in all sorts of categories outdoor gear kitchenware clothing and even this cool little thing it's like a miniature fire pit that uh you can take with you and uh you know you can even put it on your kitchen table and you know roast marshmallows while you're having lunch this is the whole reason that i did all the body extensions uh is so that i could build the rear bumper and have it kind of match the front and you know be able to figure out where it goes because i couldn't build a bumper until i knew where these fenders were going to end and whatnot so basically it'll be pretty straightforward very similar to the front you know skid plate plate bumper uh receiver hitch instead of winch [Music] so [Music] steven and i have been solving rubik's cubes uh at night and uh this is where that comes in handy you know a little bit we gotta figure out how to make this three-dimensional shape turn into a flat shape and then back into a three-dimensional one it's actually not the same at all but it is the same part of your brain so um you know that's something useful skills yeah i'm trying to think of what we can do to make this video like as exciting as the last one so uh you may think that i'm working late into the night here because it's dark nope it's like four o'clock it just gets dark super early this time of year [Music] [Music] [Music] it's gonna be a struggle ah that did nothing pushed it that's what happens when you try to bend eighth inch steel on a metal break from harbor freight that's made to bend like 20 gauge steel you accomplish nothing [Music] [Music] so what i'm doing here is making just a giant lever with a slot in it so i can slide it all the way over that and bend it down a little bit at a time but it needs to be just a little bit wider of a slot [Music] oh [Music] it's [Music] yo [Music] oh that's satisfying that fit [Music] um [Music] got my corners redone here the way i want them and got the receiver hitch tacked in there so i'm going to tack it back in place here at the bottom and then keep going on the rest of it [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so i pretty much never use square tube for anything i mean obviously i'd used it for a receiver hitch but that's because that's what they are uh i never use it for anything in the chassis because i don't like the way it looks it looks uh i don't know elegant or something but in this case it's going to make a lot of sense uh this is a little bar that's going to go across here that i was just talking about and the reason it makes more sense is because it's flat on one side to weld to this for you know the aforementioned strength so i will sacrifice my aesthetic tendencies in this case because it just will be stronger for what i'm using it for it is kind of fun when you notch square tube with a round hole saw you end up with really interesting little pieces of stuff it looks like a rubik's cube everything looks like a rubik's cube to me because i've been trying to solve a rubik's cube every night for like a week not a normal one either a really weird one it's special like ethan [Music] [Applause] i really should have uh sanded this paint off before tacking the bumper in place but you know yeah that looks awesome i love the receiver hitch uh and it doesn't even mess with the departure angle at all which is cool technically speaking the whole bumper actually does slightly ruin the departure angle it's less than perfect it used to be a perfect departure angle now it's like off by a degree or two but who cares there's no situation where that's gonna matter also wheelie bar if you did a wheelie on pavement this point would hit first and make nice sparks [Music] me [Music] it's really kind of convenient having will helping out today and not working on the banshee uh because he was working on the banshee for like months and now that's done so i can have him do all these little things that i've been meaning to do and have just been putting off so roguefab recently sent us some updates and upgrades to their tubing notcher that we've had for years one of them is a longer drill shaft and a deeper this part whatever that's called so that you um can use longer hole saws like so deeper hole saws for notching into uh weird angle stuff anyway so they sent us that and then also this piece which is just a uh you know reinforced beefed up version of this clamp thing you can see this one over time has become a little wobbly which is still works okay but it'll work better with this so it's got a beefed up thing here and um yeah it just bolts onto the back side of there a few holes a few modifications and then the cubing nacho will be better [Music] [Applause] this rear bumper is almost done um there's a little more you know i gotta fill in a few little holes and sand it down that'll happen later but um for the finishing touch on it we need some giant d-rings obviously right oh yeah yeah both directions and then weld it and then measure it that's how i like to do things there four and seven eight that looks excellent it also makes for a great spot to climb up and jump in this thing so we found out the easiest way to get in is through the roof hole i don't even know how much uh travel we have in the rear actually i'm gonna kind of get a rough idea right now uh measure it but we have a lot of travel so 10 inches of tire clearance is full droop basically and then that's about as far down as we can go right now and that is like six inches so that's already four inches of travel and we're gonna like kind of map the rest of it because see how much travel i have left on the shock i have like two and some change inches more there and then we can see how much we traveled [Music] yeah so i don't know eight to nine inches of travel currently and that's before we long travel it yeah this thing's gonna be insane it's probably gonna have like i'm gonna guess at least 12 inches of wheel travel on each tire that's what you want obviously we need that to uh or we we could not possibly get that right now because it would hit this very quickly um but when we long travel it these tires will come out and will completely clear the body here so a lot of progress on this thing this week uh did the body extensions obviously they look like crap but um i'll worry about that later when i get some more uh better products for filling in the ugliness and making it stick that epoxy i was using on the other side kind of worked but it didn't stick as well as i was hoping so we'll get some more products to figure that out but um yeah we've got a rear bumper and a trailer hitch and d-rings and it looks beastly so i'd call that a win will got a bunch of little reinforcement bars made while i was working on the bumper um some of them you can see in there so you know we've got this bar that bar oh and a couple of them right here that tie these bars tie the sides of this roll cage part here into the seat mounts um for extra strength on both of them and they also make a great place to stand when you're hopping in and out of it through the roof so yeah for the next episode on this thing i'm going to order up some tubing and make an exhaust pipe because that's one of the major things that's stopping us from test starting this thing for funsies pipes gas tanks or gas tank depending on how i do it singular or pleural controls so you know throttle brakes and um obviously wiring but it's coming together quick i may not seem like it because we're doing a lot of other stuff in the meantime but like as far as hours into it it's way less than what we had to put into the kernel so um well that's cool but yeah it's uh it's really coming together it's awesome we all can't wait to drive it the roll cage is just gonna make it so much more fun to rally and wheelie yes i'm so stoked it's gonna be awesome i uh that is legitimately a lot of the reason that i built this rear bumper so beefy and put stuff like d-rings and a trailer hitch in it is because the front one the bumper is pretty lightweight but it's got a winch up there and um you know i want it to have the right weight distribution to be able to wheely so we've got to add some weight on the rigger [Music]

Channel: Grind Hard Plumbing Co

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Keywords: Overland, Power wheels build, Off road, DIY, Fabrication, Winch videos, Off road IG, Off roading, Atv, Quad, 4x4, 4x4 build, van camping, overland build, off road go kart, atv

Id: NYtUd1RNQ8o

Length: 22min 45sec (1365 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 03 2021