Installing the fire suppression hood is one of the most involved, and certainly most expensive, parts of building a food truck. I’ve got the hood and exhaust fan installed now. Still need to do install the suppression system but that can’t happen until the walls are in place.
Here’s a video that covers 3 day’s worth of work in a a little over 20 mins. I had to edit out all of the parts where I’m dropping f-bombs like I’m a meth head with Tourette’s syndrome.
I’ve been planning this for the past six months. It’s a great feeling to get started. I’ll be posting build videos to the Smoked Food Truck YouTube channel Hopefully the things I learn during the process can help someone else that might be thinking about converting an old UniFirst step van (2009 Morgan Olson WorkHorse W42) into a food truck.