As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus.
Bus roof raise.
From full bus conversion services to roof raise services we are the industry leaders in converting buses into homes on wheels.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.
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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.
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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View from under the bus.
This school bus conversion video is about the roof raise process in our skoolie.
There are several different popular techniques for achieving this.
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.
The most popular reason is value.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
We hope this video can give you ideas when it comes to converting a bus into.
Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof.
Skoolie bus conversion roof raise on today s post.
It s all very exciting so let s get.
We originally wanted to cut off the entire top of the bus and lift it to have a full roof raise.