By raising the roof 8 you now can be standing and look out your windows without leaning as much.
Short bus roof raise.
Our new 6 ton car jack.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
In order to keep things legal the bus cannot be more than 13 6 in height.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
This turned out to be unnecessary even for bart who is 6 4.
The most popular reason is value.
The roof was raised a total of 18.
Things we had to consider.
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.
We originally planned to raise the roof a full two feet.
We plan on living in it full time so we definitely want a decent kitchen shower and permanent bed space.
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.
We have been tossing around the idea of raising the roof just past.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
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.
View from under the bus.
Short bus skoolie roof raise.
Apr 25 2017 explore amanda mendoza s board bus raised roof on pinterest.