How I mounted reels on the back doors of a Chevy Van

[ThaBeast]

I made templates from thin blue foam and had these panels water jetted fron 3/16 steel. These are bolted to the door using stainless bolts. The insides of the doors were rattle can under coated and filled with scrap blue foam from lining the van.
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We welded a piece of 3"x3" L steel to the panel, slotted the factory plastic panel

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Mounted crappy Rokans to the steel L

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The doors are now very solid sounding. Passenger door holds live water supply feed and drivers door holds apo hose

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[Clean Response]

They do look solid. How far does it stick out?

Lets see more pics of the rest of the truck.

 

[ThaBeast]

Sticks out width of reel plus 1"

Still tinkering with this thing, current project is to get the blower noise to 85-88db when at speed. I'll start a thread when I'm proud of the van and the way it looks.

Here's a couple other fabrication pics

Added tranny cooler

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Modded Steam Genie shaft bracket for keeping a/c
(Note this bracket is now fully blueprinted if someone needs one). This bracket is v1.1, v2 has welded nuts for compressor attachment and machined spacers instead of stacked nuts shown here

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[bob vawter]

good stuff Dave..........
yous one fart smella.......

 

[cu]

good stuff Dave..........
yous one fart smella.......

Yeah he is
what's he taking about

 

[Kevin B]

I'm not that clever. I pulled the door panels off, replaced them with plywood screwed to the doors. Bolted a wall mount reel hanger. Covered the doors with silver bubble wrap insulation(north Idaho gets cold) and you can't even tell!

 

[ThaBeast]

It rarely gets really cold here in Kentucky, but we put lots of insulation in this van to make it quiet on the road, and it tests almost half as loud as the ford our butler is in for road noise....now spinning that 4l blower up to 3000 Rpms is another story (for now). I noticed the a/c functions much better in a well insulated van too


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[Kevin B]

Looks good, fabricate on your own?

 

[ThaBeast]

Design is mine, I had a local metal shop cut the panels with a water jetting cnc machine

I also have a buddy that helps out a lot when I get stumped, between the two of us we can solve most any issue.

Basic machine design came from Mr Vawters Steam Genies

This one's been nicknamed the Franken Genie


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