Nice work! What ambulance build are you working with? I have a GMC 4500 ambulance with a Horton-built ambulance box. If I had ripped out the same area you ripped out in this video, I would have ripped out the interior portion of the biggest exterior storage box on my rig, which houses my air suspension compressor and some other mechanicals. Just curious! It does look like yours was truly dead space, so absolutely agree with your decision! 🙂
I'm confused 😕 my brain keeps asking why.... why is he obsessed with ripping out all this incredibly well made super solid cabinetry just to re-install or build new cabinetry? I thought the point of buying a ambulance is to utilize all the rock solid well made components. The work involved in gutting the ambulance hardly seems worthwhile when you could just buy a empty box truck or van. It's sad, it's a ambulance 🚑 it would be nice if people would retro fit their needs to the original ambulance to keep the ambulance look. Just my thoughts.
What you are missing is if you leave it all in you are stuck with that layout. So if you put solar on the roof I have 6 panels to put on and want a vent fan up top as well - this needs to be in a place that a built in cabinets would be blocking. Same with adding a vent for a stove. I am using some of the built in ones as well you can take them down and re-mount them as you wish. In the back if you wanted to turn that area into a shower/bathroom you need to take down the cabinets or you can not stand up. The built in counter has some extra space under it in mine that was covered up so by taking it out I got more space and my newer counter is now higher up making it more usable standing up and to fit a deeper sink in more easy now. I did look at many trucks before buying the Ambo they are not built as well at all. Many have a very thin roof and a lot of them use a see through roof top that would not be good for mounting solar or anything to as its not strong to mount to. Also the side walls are not as strong built. Then the price for a used hitop van with 50k or so miles on it is in the 30 to 35k price range and a good box truck used is in the 40 to 45k price range. I paid $6000 for my Ambo with a new motor in it with only 52k miles on it. I also ripped all the massive wires out making even more space to install solar gear.
At 3:30 save that stainless webbing strap tie down point. Those are handy.
Nice work! What ambulance build are you working with? I have a GMC 4500 ambulance with a Horton-built ambulance box. If I had ripped out the same area you ripped out in this video, I would have ripped out the interior portion of the biggest exterior storage box on my rig, which houses my air suspension compressor and some other mechanicals. Just curious! It does look like yours was truly dead space, so absolutely agree with your decision! 🙂
Is this a road rescue unit?
I'm confused 😕 my brain keeps asking why.... why is he obsessed with ripping out all this incredibly well made super solid cabinetry just to re-install or build new cabinetry? I thought the point of buying a ambulance is to utilize all the rock solid well made components.
The work involved in gutting the ambulance hardly seems worthwhile when you could just buy a empty box truck or van.
It's sad, it's a ambulance 🚑 it would be nice if people would retro fit their needs to the original ambulance to keep the ambulance look.
Just my thoughts.
What you are missing is if you leave it all in you are stuck with that layout. So if you put solar on the roof I have 6 panels to put on and want a vent fan up top as well - this needs to be in a place that a built in cabinets would be blocking. Same with adding a vent for a stove. I am using some of the built in ones as well you can take them down and re-mount them as you wish. In the back if you wanted to turn that area into a shower/bathroom you need to take down the cabinets or you can not stand up. The built in counter has some extra space under it in mine that was covered up so by taking it out I got more space and my newer counter is now higher up making it more usable standing up and to fit a deeper sink in more easy now. I did look at many trucks before buying the Ambo they are not built as well at all. Many have a very thin roof and a lot of them use a see through roof top that would not be good for mounting solar or anything to as its not strong to mount to. Also the side walls are not as strong built. Then the price for a used hitop van with 50k or so miles on it is in the 30 to 35k price range and a good box truck used is in the 40 to 45k price range. I paid $6000 for my Ambo with a new motor in it with only 52k miles on it. I also ripped all the massive wires out making even more space to install solar gear.