Our bus was a little less than 9 tall in its original state.
Short bus roof raise.
This turned out to be unnecessary even for bart who is 6 4.
In order to keep things legal the bus cannot be more than 13 6 in height.
This dramatic option basically involves chopping off the entire ceiling of the bus fabricating support struts to elongate the existing ones replacing the severed roof onto the higher struts and then sealing all the gaps with sheet metal and so forth.
One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
We plan on living in it full time so we definitely want a decent kitchen shower and permanent bed space.
The most popular reason is value.
The roof was raised a total of 18.
We originally planned to raise the roof a full two feet.
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.
By raising the roof 8 you now can be standing and look out your windows without leaning as much.
Things we had to consider.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
I am new to this sub as me and my partner just purchased our short school bus yesterday and are working on the floor plan.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
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Our new 6 ton car jack.
Short bus skoolie roof raise.