I'm picking up a 2001 next week that was professionally restored by pop top heaven. Only 39,000 miles. Since you've had this vehicle three years I'm curious how it's been mechanically and if you have any complaints?

Do you have any beginner pictures of the floor and putting the subfloor down? What did you use and did your rv have the wood planks in the dips. I am taking the carpet out and there are these pieces of the wood.

Any thoughts 2 years later? What size inverter? I love a Ninja Foodie, and considering the same changes on our sailboat. Looks great!

pumps should always be pushing through a filter, why do you have it sucking through one and pushing through the other?

If you mount filter to a board you will have easy access

Can you provide the info where you buy the materials for the shed please !

Great video. Are you doing this on your cat? If so, you do this set up for both engines?, or just one set up for polishing from the fuel tanks? I'm looking at the RACOR 75900FHX. Not nearly as DIY as you. I have a Lagoon 46 and do not think I have a fuel polishing setup. Thanks!

Great video. Never thought of 3 way valves so that you can do each tank. Do you use any type of biocide or treatment? Heading south from BVI to Granada next month.

My wife and I have a Rialta as well and would love to do this to ours too! How did you get the seat bolts out behind the 2 front seats? We were worried that it would make the wood uneven! Would love to know how y’all did it!

Just hiked Pelee today, easily one of the most difficult hikes I’ve done because of the steepness and all the climbing but it was definitely worth it and super awesome! A great way to see God’s creation!

My friend, nice job, can you help me find this hold down/pipe assembly pieces on Amazon? Can you share some link? Thanks so much

Nice job. Are there any issues to worry about by installing outside of the cabin space? I am planning on putting it in the captains hole which is never used. I have a 2015 leopard 48. Tim

2 years later, how well did the hold downs for the solar panel work,

nice to see you guys in this huge step!!! lot of happiness ahead!!!!

Wow was it worth it? I want to do this also

Thanks, great information, and confirmation of what works and what doesn’t. Good to know about the ball valve and the need to have spares aboard. I don’t have the luxury of that space in my Southerly 135 engine bay so had to do a very compact version of your arrangement. So by using Banjo fittings front and back I was able to get the filters just 6mm apart with 3 way valves in between the Banjo fittings. The twin Raycor filters was the intended project and I designed custom sheet metal parts to hold it all together along with a third folded part to allow the whole assembly to swing out into free space at the side of the engine. So with this arrangement the filter selection valve makes it so you can select either filter, both, or none ie shut off fuel altogether. Then I added 3 other 3 way valves so the engine can run from a reserve tank (day tank or drum) in emergencies, and the return fuel is able to be diverted to which ever fuel source is being used. Then it dawned on me that I can make this assembly be a fuel polisher as well, so have a Marco UP3 pump coming which pumps 15 litres per minute (they have larger and smaller ones suitable for diesel and oil) so the final assembly will filter and water separate fuel for the engine, with a full selection range of filter and fuel source options, it will polish fuel in the main tanks and selectively reserve fuel drums of tank, and it will enable the transfer of fuel from tank to tank and tank to drum. The only thing this will not do is have different fuel filters in a row as your design does. This will have a vacuum pressure sender so that the line pressure can be seen from the helm or in the NMEA 2000 data transfer system. The final arrangement will have a light behind the filter bowls to make inspection in the dark engine bay easier. The whole assembly with the fuel pump is two and a half (plus a bit) times the width of the Raycor 500 filter body, and 30mm front and back deeper than the Filter body…plus the space the valve handles take up. Your video, though, gives me confidence that the system will work as intended. Looking up fuel line diameters for engine power, a 3/8 inch fuel line is good for up to 450 HP, so I will adjust the whole system to be suitable for up to 450 HP engines.

Great video and thanks for the detailed explanation and the shopping list with all the ingredients at 9:01. Just one question, is there a reason you chose a multicrystalline solar panel over a monocrystalline? I want to do a similar update but from what I read monocrystalline (although a bit more expensive) in combination with an MPPT controller gives a better result? Also as @kingrafferty wrote below - it would be good to see how to insert a second battery into the "port" battery compartment, the "starboard" is a piece of cake 🙂 BTW, this vid is 3 years old, are you still using your Rialta? Best regards from Europe!

Would it have been possible to keep the generator as well?

pretty waterfall was nice too

Can you share the links for the whole bundle? I have a 99 Rialta and plan on doing the same! Thank you you’re videos are amazing and very helpful!

Damn you got 35 hrs into taking the decals off? I took a disk sander and some 80 grit and knocked all the graphics off the side in 45 minutes. Took a lot of the paint off also but I’m repainting the whole camper anyway. Nice work though 👍

You have in your video that guage placement isn't correct, would you mind detailing the exact placement of your guages?

Realta is a great car, but it has one significant flaw - a gasoline engine and an automatic transmission. It would be much better if they thought to equip this car with Volvo engines 2.4D5244T with a capacity of 185 to 215 horsepower and a torque of 340 Nm. Despite all that, Swedish engines meet Euro5 standards and have a fuel consumption (diesel) of 5.5 liters per 100 km. This is for cars. For a motorhome, I think a figure of about 6.5-7 liters on the highway will be more realistic. But it is still many times better than the gasoline consumption of regular Rialta gasoline engines in combination with an automatic transmission.

currently planning out my own polishing system using racor filters. they say to have the 2micron filter on the vacuum side of the pump so diesel is sucked through not pushed.

I have a 39 and considered this. From what I can see the owners version has a narrow doorway, wondering if thats how they engineered the owners version?

Thank plan on doing to my 38

I have a 2002 qd and am having trouble figuring out how to remove the old fridge. Any tips on that? I think you said there were some screws in the back? I've removed all of the ones in the sides that I can see and it still will not budge.

VERY NICE!!

Radar & autopilot on overnight passages are super. Tracking & Dodging squalls definitely makes the admiral happy. Stay safe & thanks for the video.

I haven't used the radar during the day, but I can see the benefits now👍

Good job!

How Awesome the last half hour - hour has been watching your videos. Enjoyed them so much! Especially the dolphins! So cool! I used to work on St John, USVI, at the National Park and took care of the Fee service for the 200 moorings we had around the island in park waters, and worked most days at Trump Bay. If you have ever stayed there and payed at the floating paystation, I helped deploy that for the first time they ever had a water pay station in 2004. l made it to 18 different island while I was over there, 12 of them in the last 30 days where I bought one off the 30 day island hopping passes and had so much fun! Loved Dominica (my Fav) , Anguilla, St. Vincent and Tobago a whole lot.

You guys have some of the most useful videos out there on sailing cats! Skilled and creative. Very cool.

Just found your channel. I took out our Force 10 and got a black quartz stone piece cut to fit our double induction cooktop. It’s actually very light due to the big hole but matches the Dorian very well

Great Job , we have been considering changing out our owners version 40 as well. The front cabin on our port side is just packed to the roof and a mess. Since we started cruising full time we have never had a guest in their anyhow. We always had these visions of family coming to stay but we kinda are accepting they have their own lives and we have moved out of the bubble

Great job!

Hope you don't plane to ever sell this boat. Custom modes, make for a very hard to sell boat.

Great job. Carry on!

Great job! Looks fancy cool.

Love the music

Excellent!

Hello fellow Rialta lovers. Im not criticizing the extraordinary effort you went through but I thought I would tell you/others what went wrong. First and foremost, you MUST scuff the surface with sand paper before painting anything. But these cabinets have a clear coat finish as well and then sanding will take care of that too As far as primer, you really need a self etching primer that will bond to the plastic rather than just sit on top. The spray paint that was used is good bit its gotta be applied correctly. Also, the spray tip is craps so good technique will avoid blotching. Start with a very light tack coat, wait 10-15 minutes and apply the first cover coat. Repeat until full coverage is achieved. You will probably end up with a little dust in the finish so for the final step, and to make cleaning easier and significantly increase durability, scuff with 400 grit and spray two coats of clear, made in the same line as the paint. My two cents based on years split between boats and Betty the Rialta. Hope this helps whoever reads this 🥰

Excellent video. Been planning to build a polishing system on my boat and this looks like a great setup. Never thought of using gauges…. My initial thinking was along the lines of your initial setup. Need to upgrade my plan. With the knockoff Racor, what was the thread type on the one you used, NPT?

Great video mate

I just mounted one of the knock off racors last weekend. I ended up using hex-head through bolts. Sliding an open ended box wrench behind the unit and a socket on the other side, I could tighten it down.

What did you put down on the floor first before you laid anything? 1/8” wood? 1/4” plywood? 4in slats of wood?

Great video. Can you tell me the make and model #?

Sweet! Nice job 👍

Great video! keep up the good work. :)

Thanks for posting! I’m super into the electrical system y’all installed. My first night playing in our “new” ‘03 Rialta in our driveway, I realized that the battery set up for the coach is wildly inefficient. Going to use your blog post I saw yesterday about the electrical for some ideas. 🙂