One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
Bus roof raise.
Skoolie bus conversion roof raise on today s post.
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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.
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This school bus conversion video is about the roof raise process in our skoolie.
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As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus.
Essentially you need to disconnect the roof from the body of the bus raise it to the height you want it build in supports to reattach the roof and then cover the gaps in sheet metal and put in either the original bus windows or add different windows as needed.
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I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
There are several different popular techniques for achieving this.
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The most popular reason is value.
Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof.
Why raise the roof.
How to complete the roof raise using the walk board method including.
Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.
We originally wanted to cut off the entire top of the bus and lift it to have a full roof raise.
Construction of the walk boards using cribbage and a bottle jack strategy.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
View from under the bus.
Every bus is different which means every roof raise will be different but the concepts are similar throughout the roof raise process.