Raising The Roof On A Bus

How to prepare square tubing in advance.

Raising the roof on a bus.

We hope this video can give you ideas when it comes to converting a bus into. And omg it was no easy task. The roof is actually part of the shell structure integrity. Construction of the walk boards using cribbage and a bottle jack strategy.

We greatly underestimated the amount of time and energy required to cut up a perfectly good bus and put it back together again. School bus conversion to motor home 7 raising the roof on my school bus step by step duration. The time has finally come. This school bus conversion video is about the roof raise process in our skoolie.

How to complete the roof raise using the walk board method including. Without raising the roof we would have already been half way through building out the interior of our bus at the same point in. The only real con of doing a roof raise is the amount of extra work and effort involved. View from under the bus.

Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof. Mci s in particular are a monocoque design meaning they do not have a center or lower chassis structure. It s all very exciting so let s get. The time to raise our roof has come.

Http goo gl emhm4a like our facebook page. They fit our rented scaffolding. Raised roof school bus built like a residential home full detailed tour duration. I felt i was very prepare.

Be very careful if you do this yourself. Need something on amazon. Life is a joy 11 821 views. Shop with this link http amzn to 1r7hfqe subscribe for more travel videos.

Our new 6 ton car jack. Skoolie roof raise in 1 week skoolie conversion roadtrip n venture duration. Raising the roof on a bus can be a very dangerous task without the proper skills and equipment. 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.