college stutdents 1999 freightliner

[mpyourhomie]

Sup yall. In 2015 myself and a few friends were in a battle with our landlord and decided it would be best if we just moved out. Before we left, my friend and I went in on a decent deal for a 30 foot Freightliner to keep us housed while we looked for a new place to stay. I ended up moving back home and 6 months later bought my old friend out of the bus and it's now all mine. I believe it's a Cummins 5.9 turbo charged, with about 250k on it. I'm not sure on the transmission yet, I haven't climbed under or really done much work on it at all. I have driven it quite a bit and it shifts smooth and starts up first crank at all times.

here she sits on a rainy day:

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and the interior:
front to back

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back to front

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Gutting the bus is on hold, I got halfway through and realized I need to make a trip to the dump, there's no more room left to work. In a few hours I had the cabinets down and the back wall almost down. There is a storage compartment in the back that really makes the interior much tighter. We'll see what happens from here on out. I really want to just get all the grody oem interior out and the plans will fall into place from there.

[crazycal]

Need to redo your pics.

[mpyourhomie]

Originally Posted by crazycal

Need to redo your pics.

oops







dere we go

[mpyourhomie]

Btw, is it possible to edit the title of this thread?

[EastCoastCB]

Cal can do that.

[mrblah]

It's got to be the first RV faced bus I ever saw. I'm not a bus expert at all but it sure look cool and quirky!

[PigPen]

Cool looking bus, definitely interested to see how it turns out!

[mpyourhomie]

It served it's first life as an airport shuttle bus going between Sacramento and San Francisco airports

I put some more work into tearing the interior out, but the rear partition between the cabin and the storage compartment is welded to the frame, and I don't have the tools to take care of that tonight.. gotta pick up an angle grinder


After tearing some of the carpet off the left and right walls, I found a ton of water and mold in the thin plywood behind. I could stick my drill bit right through it. Gotta track that down. I'm glad I chose to tear everything apart and go from scratch, I've found quite a bit out about my bus already

[superdave]

cool bus, are there any windows that open? keeping the ac?

[mpyourhomie]

Originally Posted by superdave

cool bus, are there any windows that open? keeping the ac?

I believe that at some point one of the fixed windows was replaced with an emergency exit window that opens at the bottom and swings outward, leaving me with 3 emergency exits windows and 5 fixed. of the 5 fixed, 3 of them have small sliders in the top left and right corners that open up about a half a square foot of space.