Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof.
How to raise the roof bus.
Like 75 steel costs etc.
One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
Roof raise costs will vary of course depending on how you do it the cost per hour.
Every bus is different which means every roof raise will be different but the concepts are similar throughout the roof raise process.
At first class motorhomes we can do any structural modification work with engineer certificates supplied with our specialty in raising roofs or lowering floors.
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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12 inch roof raise in a school bus conversion sow the land.
We greatly underestimated the amount of time and energy required to cut up a perfectly good bus and put it back together again.
Today we raised the roof on our new school bus conversion.
Why raise the roof.
If you do plan to raise your roof please take into consideration all aforementioned complications expenses.
The only real con of doing a roof raise is the amount of extra work and effort involved.
Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.
Skoolie bus conversion roof raise on today s post.
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How to complete the roof raise using the walk board method including.
The most popular reason is value.
Construction of the walk boards using cribbage and a bottle jack strategy.
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A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
It s all very exciting so let s get.
View from under the bus.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
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But having not done a roof raise myself and given the structural engineering implications of cutting your bus in half and then putting it back together exactly how to raise your roof is outside of the scope of this bus conversion manual.
U be lucky if someone will do it for 1k and is why if coach costs like 3 k more it is worth it to start off with so much done not to mention the much better drivetrains with like series 60 detroits.
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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.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
That being said go for it.
Without raising the roof we would have already been half way through building out the interior of our bus at the same point in.
