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.
Short bus roof raise.
The most popular reason is value.
Things we had to consider.
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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This turned out to be unnecessary even for bart who is 6 4.
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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.
Our new 6 ton car jack.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
By raising the roof 8 you now can be standing and look out your windows without leaning as much.
In order to keep things legal the bus cannot be more than 13 6 in height.
We have been tossing around the idea of raising the roof just past.
View from under the bus.
Our bus was a little less than 9 tall in its original state.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
Short bus skoolie roof raise.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
We originally planned to raise the roof a full two feet.