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One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
How to complete the roof raise using the walk board method including.
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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Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus.
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.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
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.
Why raise the roof.
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.
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The most popular reason is value.
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View from under the bus.
We originally wanted to cut off the entire top of the bus and lift it to have a full roof raise.
Every bus is different which means every roof raise will be different but the concepts are similar throughout the roof raise process.
This school bus conversion video is about the roof raise process in our skoolie.
Skoolie bus conversion roof raise on today s post.