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Finally got out to start working on the my 4x4 E350. This weekend consisted of:

- Full wall to wall gut of the van
- Cleaned up some surface rust on the floor, temp fix until I can Por 15/bed liner it.
- New subfloor and Jute padding cut and installed
- Installed a better set of front doors
- New Deluxe E-line doghouse
- Refinished some wood trim
- Bolted in 2 seat bases and captains chairs w/shoulder belts.
- Took it out for a quick half mile jaunt

Living like a vanner, feeling like a winner.....

Primed Driver side

washed it, pulled it back into the carport with the olds, filled it with oil and hooked up the starter wires. Got to get a new battery and see if she will fire up now and take the accelerator rod to the shop and cut it down.

Today I started on the new stereo system in the Astro, mounted a Clairion 1/2 dim EQ in the glove box on the doghouse, will post a pic or two in the afternoon.

I plan to go I-Pod feeding the EQ, then on to the amp, then to the speakers. . . No AM/FM, no cassette, no cd, just the I-Pod for tunes. I have over 100gig of music on my I-Tunes, what do I need am/fm, cass, or cd for ?

Got the rear seats in today....

I got a line on 2 astos a 88 and a 95 both fore $500

Staightened out my stereo system a bit. Installed a new Sony deck with usb and auxillary input. Picked up a Rockford Fosgate punch 12" sub in an enclosure for $60 and installed it along with my Alpine 6x9's in the doors and 6" rear speakers. Have this all powered by a 5 channel Clarion amp. Sounds good to me, not to overly bassy and very clean sounding.

Just saw a post on here about a car show I want to attend tomorrow night.
Better get out and detail the van today!

Brought the Highway over to the garage, where they will check tomorrow early morning for the reason of the bad noise, I experienced during the easter-weekend.
Also, some major maintanance work has to be done, and the two-chear-technical safety checkup, so that I will get the stamp on the licence plate for the next two years.