Finished up the microwave install.
First I added the face to the cubbyhole. The large section at the bottom will have an AC and DC power panel. All power, other than engine will be monitored and controlled from there.
Not sure what I was thinking, but I never installed power in the cubbyhole when I built it. Fixed that. Had to remove some of the left wall panels to run the wire... but it's in now.
Since there's precious little room to get your hands in there to fasten the oven in place, I took another piece of 3/4" ply, made a strap from aluminum and rubber and strapped the oven to it... painted it black so it's a bit unobtrusive and added two wood nuts to it. A kind of tray for the oven if you will. Slides in... two screws up from the bottom and it's easy to install/remove. Pics are kinda scarce here... not sure why I didn't take more.
And here we are....
Sue and I took Van Go out for a test the last two Sundays. Justa quick shakedown the first try. I'd forgotten that one of the problems I had driving it home after purchase was a vibration at anything over 60mph. Nothing in the steering wheel but it did feel like tire balance. So when I did the brakes, I swapped the tires front to rear. Now along with the vibes the steering wheel shook like a wet dog.... so it's definitely one of those two fronts. A closer look showed the treads were cupped. So I took him to a tire shop last week and had two new fronts installed.
Went out again last Sunday and now everything appears to be as it should. Pushed it up to about 80mph and all's well. We toodled around the back country for about 3 hrs... it's drives as good as or better'n my F150 and it's ten yrs older. Color me happy.
The eclipse is in 4 days and a wakeup. We've got a campsite reserved at Ft Leonard Wood on the edge of the Mark Twain Nat. Forrest for Sunday. It's within a stones throw of the eclipse totality path. We'll set off for it on Sunday AM and RON there. Up the next morning and we'll have a good idea of where the weather (cloud cover) is favorable and off we'll go.
Since the interior isn't anywhere close to done, this will be roughing it with sleeping bags.
Hopefully the next trip will be with a finished van.... or should I say, finished enough. Vans are like houses and bikes... they're never actually done.
Finally, apologies to those of you waiting on paint. This trip and van prep was kinda important to Sue and me... appreciate y'all indulging me.
Cheers.
What he said! Hope you have good weather tomorrow! 
