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