As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus.
Short bus roof raise.
Short bus skoolie roof raise.
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.
Our new 6 ton car jack.
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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Every bus is different which means every roof raise will be different but the concepts are similar throughout the roof raise process.
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We plan on living in it full time so we definitely want a decent kitchen shower and permanent bed space.
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.
Apr 25 2017 explore amanda mendoza s board bus raised roof on pinterest.
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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They fit our rented scaffolding.
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I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
I will have a follow up video next year with the finished skoolie buil.
We originally wanted to cut off the entire top of the bus and lift it to have a full roof raise.