Roof deck and rack for storage or hang out area.
Raised bus roof rv.
Why raise the roof.
Roof raise of 14 inches brings it to a total height of 12 feet including the height of the rack.
We originally planned to raise the roof a full two feet.
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Jim debbie retired about 2 years ago to get their skoolie up and ready for full time travel.
The roof raise not too many busses have had their roofs raised so this one is pretty unique.
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.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
They also helped me get my skoolie going and i will be forever.
Apr 25 2017 explore amanda mendoza s board bus raised roof on pinterest.
The most popular reason is value.
In this episode i go through the details of the process i used to raise the roof on a 1993 bluebird bus named transcendence.
Whenever you buy a commercial passenger coach there are modifications you will need to make it a comfortable private coach.
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In order to keep things legal the bus cannot be more than 13 6 in height.
This turned out to be unnecessary even for bart who is 6 4.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
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.
Our bus was a little less than 9 tall in its original state.
Things we had to consider.
Standing room inside the bus is 7 feet 5 inches.
The roof was raised a total of 18.