I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
Raise a bus roof.
As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus.
This school bus conversion video is about the roof raise process in our skoolie.
Chris of the off grid skoolie raised his bus roof with some help from other og skoolie community members and made a helpful video on how they did it.
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It s all very exciting so let s get.
How to complete the roof raise using the walk board method including.
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We originally wanted to cut off the entire top of the bus and lift it to have a full roof raise.
Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof.
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Essentially they welded in four custom spreaders onto the ribs removed all the rivets cut the upright ribs in the middle and sliced through the roof so the bus was entirely in two pieces.
View from under the bus.
Our new 6 ton car jack.
Why raise the roof.
Every bus is different which means every roof raise will be different but the concepts are similar throughout the roof raise process.
Skoolie bus conversion roof raise on today s post.
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A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
So we prepped the bus for the raise most of the day on saturday removing rivets removing windows setting up the scaffolding and putting the whole bus up on blocks.
Construction of the walk boards using cribbage and a bottle jack strategy.
The most popular reason is value.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
We hope this video can give you ideas when it comes to converting a bus into.
Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.