The raised roof was inspired by another youtuber in a skoolie transcend existence they furnished the living room with a convertible couch across from a samsung smart tv.
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Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.
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Roof raise of 14 inches brings it to a total height of 12 feet including the height of the rack.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
The roof raise not too many busses have had their roofs raised so this one is pretty unique.
Things we had to consider.
Our bus was a little less than 9 tall in its original state.
The most popular reason is value.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
In order to keep things legal the bus cannot be more than 13 6 in height.
Why raise the roof.
The roof was raised a total of 18.
One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
Apr 25 2017 explore amanda mendoza s board bus raised roof on pinterest.
Our new 6 ton car jack.
View from under the 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 also helped me get my skoolie going and i will be forever.
Jim debbie retired about 2 years ago to get their skoolie up and ready for full time travel.
This turned out to be unnecessary even for bart who is 6 4.
In this episode i go through the details of the process i used to raise the roof on a 1993 bluebird bus named transcendence.
Extra wood from the flooring was used to create a bench under the tv with a built in dvd player.
Standing room inside the bus is 7 feet 5 inches.