A bus conversion story…
Before we jump right into the subfloor process, I need to re-visit the discussion about blanking the window spaces. First, I did a little more digging and discovered that the OEM fiberglass side panels ARE held on with rivets. The rivets are just hidden by the windows on the top and bottom. This is bad…
After many hours and more grinding disks that I care to count, demolition is more or less complete. I say “more or less” because there are a few odds and ends that I may still remove just because they aren’t needed anymore (old wiring, etc.) They aren’t in the way of anything I want to…
The plan had been to get the bus delivered and then start the laborious task of removing all of the seats, removing the overhead racks (and cutting them up to get them out of the bus), stripping the walls, removing the lavatory, and tearing up the floors, including removing the seat mounting rails with a…
As I mentioned before, I have spent years learning, thinking, and planning. Some of that is dreaming. Some of that is looking at what other people have done and seeing what I like and don’t like. One of the fun parts of this process is that you can do anything you want. But, that also…
I guess I should start this by explaining what this hare-brained idea is. The goal is to take a bus (think “charter,” as in 56 seats of air-conditioned comfort), strip it down, and turn it into an RV (think “tiny house,” but with wheels.) So, we start with this: This is a 2006 MCI J4500.…