Sojourners Bus

Sojourners · 10-28-2010, 07:31 PM

Hey we are new to the forum. We recently started on a bus project and have just finished the paint. I will post some pictures soon. The name of our bus is Sojourner.

thesaltydog24 · 10-29-2010, 08:05 AM

Welcome, Can't wait to see some pics. Whats the specs on your bus? What are you going to be using it for?
There is a lot of helpful information throughout this forum also plenty of knowledgeable people too. Don't be afraid to ask questions and join in on conversations, we are all for he most part a pretty easy going group. Just watch out for this Smitty guy, Personally I think he fell off his rocker, I mean he is converting a school bus

... Who does something like that....

Oh wait a tick we all are.

He may seem harmless at first but give him an inch and he will come back at you with some kind of witty comment.

Just kidding around. Smitty is a great guy and is very knowledgeable on the whole conversion process.
Hope to see some pics soon.

Chris

Sojourners · 10-29-2010, 03:54 PM

Thanks, all, for the welcome! Pics are coming as soon as I figure out how to download them...
As for the bus, it is a '96 Bluebird flatnose. It is in really nice shape (with the exception of a couple dings here and there). We are going to use it to "move" in. We are making a few alterations in the front, will put in a wall part way back and use the back to store everything that we will keep and take with us. We will live in the front part as we travel to our destination. We don't know where that is yet! We bought the bus from a church who had used it locally. It only has 99,000 miles on a Cummins 5.9 diesel engine.

Sojourners · 10-29-2010, 03:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Smitty

Welcome!

Smitty

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to get pictures uploaded. Can you help? Thanks!

Sojourners · 10-29-2010, 05:16 PM

Ok, here are some of our pictures! We have just "temped" the inside, making it livable for the meanwhile. We will probably do more later after using the bus as a "moving rig."
http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...S%20FOR%20HIM/

Sojourners · 10-29-2010, 05:35 PM

Today I figured out how to upload pics to view on the recent bus paint job! We hope to still get some stainless lug nuts for the wheels and maybe some stainless baby moon hub covers... we'll see how that goes!
Sojourners

Sojourners · 10-29-2010, 09:10 PM

Sojourners · 10-29-2010, 09:54 PM

keith · 10-30-2010, 01:33 PM

i like the cover for the roof hatch's,,,who made them ? or did you make them?... THANKS KEITH .WHERE DO YOU GUYS LIVE?..also can you post a closer pictures....

browncrown · 10-30-2010, 02:00 PM

Welcome, nice looking Bird

Sojourners · 10-31-2010, 08:44 AM

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Originally Posted by keith

i like the cover for the roof hatch's,,,who made them ? or did you make them?... THANKS KEITH .WHERE DO YOU GUYS LIVE?..also can you post a closer pictures....

My husband built the roof hatch covers. They allow us to open them without "bugs" coming in. They work great! We love sleeping with the fresh air coming in when the weather is conducive. We also made some window screens that attach to the outside (magnetic strips hot-glue gunned to the screen material) that can be attached on the outside. Wouldn't work while traveling, probably, but works great while stationary. We moved the bus from a location that was out in the sun to a shaded area for the remainder of the painting, it was hot (in the south) so the shade was a welcome addition.

Sojourners · 10-31-2010, 08:47 AM

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Originally Posted by browncrown

Welcome, nice looking Bird

Thanks! Likewise, your Crown is very cute. I think I rode in a bus just about like that when I was in school years ago! Funny! Your Crown has class...

Sojourners · 10-31-2010, 08:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Smitty

Glad to see you got the pics figured-out, I fixed the 1st one (had an extra set of [IMG] brackets on it). Nice looking bus

Smitty

Thank you Smitty!

Now on to figuring out what we will do on the inside. The painting took quite some time to finish. Removing all the decals, reflective strips, and such was the most time-consuming part. Next came the sanding and then finally the painting. We bought Rustoleum from an online source (as the colors locally sold were very limited). SO GLAD to get rid of the last of the "bus yellow!"

keith · 10-31-2010, 11:00 AM

well ,,i like to have a set of them ,so pm me maybe we can work something out,, thanks keith,of ellijay,GA.....94 b/b tc2000 called ( GHOST RIDDERS )FROMLY last rodeo......

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