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Old 08-14-2016, 09:18 AM   #1
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Today I started the tear down of my bus. I found some rust so far nothing that can't be Fixed. This is fun. I am having a blast working on this bus.

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Old 08-14-2016, 11:51 AM   #2
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Time spent working on a bus can not be deducted from life
I too am still having a blast working on the bus. Most my major stuff is done so now it is a lot of organizing stuff to find where it fits best... kind of bus Tetris.

The pics with the seat remind me what great space these have, a blank canvas.
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Old 08-14-2016, 12:59 PM   #3
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Time spent working on a bus can not be deducted from life
I too am still having a blast working on the bus. Most my major stuff is done so now it is a lot of organizing stuff to find where it fits best... kind of bus Tetris.

The pics with the seat remind me what great space these have, a blank canvas.
Bus Tetris. Haha I like that

Seeing the bus stripped just makes me very happy!
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Old 08-14-2016, 06:37 PM   #4
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Ok so I have finished for the day. I have one wall gutted, the
ceiling, and the top half of another wall. I find it odd Wayne didn't run the wiring in the hole in the frames on the top of the walls.

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Old 08-21-2016, 10:07 PM   #5
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Worked all weekend on the bus. Pulled up the flooring found rust from the leaky windows. Any tips on sealing bus windows would be awesome. I pulled the first five windows on each side that we are keeping and sealed them. Two still leak. I think they are leaking from the top under the drip edge. I will be removing this and sealing it next weekend. I have to get the leaks fixed before I can attack the floor.

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Old 08-21-2016, 10:13 PM   #6
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Goodness you went right to town on that!
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Old 09-03-2016, 03:13 PM   #8
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After a short business trip I'm back at it.





I hate those factory rivets.

more to come tomorrow. I have 9 days off of work and I am devoting my mornings to the conversion. [emoji41] [emoji41] [emoji41] [emoji41] [emoji41]

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Old 09-04-2016, 01:20 PM   #9
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Well after a productive morning I have been able to delete 7 windows on the STBD side of the bus. The only thing remaining is to finish caulking the front five windows, and to cleanup and reinstall the drip edge/ rubrail. I used the old sheet metal from the old ceiling I removed from inside. Wayne made it easy using full length metal panels. I was hesitant to use them due to the tectured surface however when it Is painted with the ruberized paint it will be hardly noticeable. I also decided to seal and paint the outside of the bus before moving to the interior. I have some leaks that needed to be resolved before I started patching the floor and insulating.




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Old 09-07-2016, 05:48 PM   #10
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Looks good, what did you use for the metal? Sorry if you already stated it somewhere
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Old 09-07-2016, 09:02 PM   #11
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thats coming along nice.. its interesting how different coach builders used different grades of metal... some have really thin interior ceiling panels and others are really beefy...

my only concern on busses where they used beefy panels is how much structural component was thought into those... are you compromising the integrity of the bus by not keeping a heavy panel in the ceiling... .. or were they just extra reinforcement for an already beefy frame structure?

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Old 09-08-2016, 08:20 PM   #12
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the old ceiling metal

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Old 09-08-2016, 08:26 PM   #13
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Well after a long day I now have all the windows removed that I wanted to get rid of. 7 on each side. The metal I recycled from the ceiling is heavy gage. Wayne used full length panels for structural integrity. I figure the toung and groove I'm adding to the ceiling will be stronger than the original tin. I also found all of my windows had been leaking. Next is to finish caulking and pain the outside before moving to the floor. I needed 0 leaks first.

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Old 10-22-2016, 06:40 AM   #14
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Well I started prepping for pain. Found a few rust holes on the back of my bus and the sides. All the rust holes are from the old leaking windows. Not a problem my welder cant fix. I saved a lot of the old interior metal for these repairs. Just remember when welding on the body tack every inch or so before you start welding or the metal will warp and pull with the heat. If you have any issues with backlight in the welding hood as I do use a leather welding hood.




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Old 10-22-2016, 06:43 AM   #15
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ive never seen a welding hood like that.. looks like something you could use in a halloween costume!.
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Old 10-22-2016, 07:00 AM   #16
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ive never seen a welding hood like that.. looks like something you could use in a halloween costume!.
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Those hoods are nothing more than cutting goggles with leather hooked to them to get into tight spaces. I have a lot older version but for my daily welding hood we use our old welding/leather jackets to cut pieces out of for covering the back of the hood/helmet cause a lot of places I work require my hood to be connected to a hard hat as well? Talk about a headache/neck ache/pain in the butt when you really can't fit anything but a Halloween costume hood in there? Sometimes we end up welding with just the cutting goggles with the 10 lense
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I was finally able to get back to work on the bus. I sanded down the outside and removed a lot of bad paint. I scrubbed the outside down with dawn and scrubbed the bus down with denatured alcohol. Primed the bus and put a base coat of elastomeric paint on the bus.

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Old 11-27-2016, 09:30 PM   #20
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That paint is lookin good , prob my lots of bad paint to get rid of on an old Wayne, I like this bus
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