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A few mods to the rear cabinets to hold more stuff and of course, paper towels

A couple of back seat consoles to hold kids water bottles and their phones and games.

A front console to hold more stuff including a most important trashcan and some water bottles

Made 2 under seat boxes to hold misc stuff and to store the jack which was mounted in a really stupid location in the cargo area from the factory. Again, this is all a prototype to see how it works out.

Added a high and low temp cut out for the lithium battery charging. Off at 35 degrees and off at 110 degrees. Lithium batteries will be damaged if you try to charge them at low and high temps. The relay both prevents charging from the DC to DC charger and from solar charge controller. This was...

Movable charging port for kids to use

Yakima box, good cond, streamlined, some pin striping, no cracks, stored in my shed Fits almost any crossbars including Factory. Aprx 22x84 inches. This holds a lot of stuff. It has a nice shape for using off road since the front taper deflects branches includes nice U bolts for mounting. I...

Used 1x time. $50 Exc Cond Curt Brand New one is $113 on Amazon. I won't ship it.

4 crossbars vs 3. What a PIA to remove one and center the other. Live and learn. Don't set up cross bars until after the tent arrives.

The test Run. It is 42 outside, heater has been on for about 10 minutes on lowest setting. It's about 64 inside the RTT. All the windows are zipped up. Temp is slowly climbing.

So I paid I think about $35 for a 300 watt pure sine wave inverter shown above which very very inexpensive. I was suspicious that it might really be a modified sine wave inverter claiming to be a pure sine wave inverter. Well it really is a pure sine wave inverter with proof. Picture on bottom...

Back to the Van. If you notice in early pictures, I have 4 crossbars under the RTT. I did this because of the suggestion in one of the Bush RTT videos. Well first, it only comes with 6 tie downs and second the spacing Interferes with the optimal ladder bracket placement for side entry. I am...

Lastly since I trust this heater as much as I trust a Harbor Freight jack stand, I made two hanging combo C0 / Smoke detectors. One for RTT and the other for Grandkids/daughter/SIL tent. I just used some binder clips and some short pieces of chain to make hangers. Simple and gives me a warm...

More tidbits on Diesel Heater 3"to 4" adapter. I recommend metal due it being close to exhaust. I had a 4" 90 silicone that was left over from another project. It works perfect for the 4" flex duct. Doesn't seem to be affected by the exhaust heat.

300 watt portable full sine wave inverter with 12 hour timer. I have digital controlled electric blanket that we want to possibly use in the RTT. The digital blanket controller doesn't function correctly on the main modified sine wave inverter.