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02-20-2018, 03:19 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 570
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466e
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Roof raise.. self/paid?.. how did you go about it?
Was wondering if people can share there experience on what technique was used, tools/used and if they did it own there own or paid someone to do it. Pictures welcome!
Just looking to get motivated as I will attempt to do this by myself with no experience except what I've seen on youtube and this forum
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02-20-2018, 04:21 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2017
Posts: 973
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Quote:
Originally Posted by adic27
Was wondering if people can share there experience on what technique was used, tools/used and if they did it own there own or paid someone to do it. Pictures welcome!
Just looking to get motivated as I will attempt to do this by myself with no experience except what I've seen on youtube and this forum
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You might go solo...BUT there's a lot of weight in that roof...you need to know how plan the lift...be careful
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02-20-2018, 04:26 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 8,462
Year: 1946
Coachwork: Chevrolet/Wayne
Chassis: 1- 1/2 ton
Engine: Cummins 4BT
Rated Cap: 15
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Read the build threads. There a quite a few roof raises here showing lots of ways to go about it.
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02-20-2018, 05:11 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: hills of sw virginia
Posts: 889
Year: 1996
Chassis: thomas
Engine: 8.3 cummins
Rated Cap: 11 window
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check ECCB's roll your own thread, we used the threaded rod technique to lift it 10 inches. easy with four people turning a wrench.
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02-20-2018, 05:20 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 570
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466e
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tango
Read the build threads. There a quite a few roof raises here showing lots of ways to go about it.
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I've read a few. There is one guy who used a method that i wanna use but i can't remember his thread.
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02-20-2018, 05:31 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Owasso, OK
Posts: 2,627
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Saf-T-Liner MVP ER
Engine: Cummins 6CTA8.3 Mechanical MD3060
Rated Cap: 46 Coach Seats, 40 foot
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Quote:
Originally Posted by superdave
check ECCB's roll your own thread, we used the threaded rod technique to lift it 10 inches. easy with four people turning a wrench.
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That method is easy enough, if a little slower, with one person. It's the method I'd use because at no point is the roof detached from the bus. It's either help on by welds or bolts the entire time.
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02-20-2018, 05:59 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 570
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466e
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Quote:
Originally Posted by superdave
check ECCB's roll your own thread, we used the threaded rod technique to lift it 10 inches. easy with four people turning a wrench.
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Yea ive been subscribed to that thread. Never checked his method tho.
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02-20-2018, 06:21 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: Wright City MO
Posts: 280
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: Bluebird
Engine: 5.9 Cummins/Allison
Rated Cap: 74
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Twigg
That method is easy enough, if a little slower, with one person. It's the method I'd use because at no point is the roof detached from the bus. It's either help on by welds or bolts the entire time.
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I have done two raises that way and will be doing a third that way in March however the thought that the roof is attached the entire time is not true the nuts on the allthread are in between the two brackets and although it would take a hellacious lift the roof could be lifted or blown off I wouldn't try it on a stormy day you could avoid this by also putting nuts and washers on the top and bottom of the brackets but you would be doubling the amount of wrench time required to do the lift.
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02-20-2018, 06:39 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Owasso, OK
Posts: 2,627
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Saf-T-Liner MVP ER
Engine: Cummins 6CTA8.3 Mechanical MD3060
Rated Cap: 46 Coach Seats, 40 foot
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gdog 5651
I have done two raises that way and will be doing a third that way in March however the thought that the roof is attached the entire time is not true the nuts on the allthread are in between the two brackets and although it would take a hellacious lift the roof could be lifted or blown off I wouldn't try it on a stormy day you could avoid this by also putting nuts and washers on the top and bottom of the brackets but you would be doubling the amount of wrench time required to do the lift.
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Running nuts part-way up the lower threads and part-way down the upper threads would help avert disaster.
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02-20-2018, 07:00 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 570
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466e
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http://www.skoolie.net/forums/f11/th...gate-1564.html
This is the thread with the method i was talking about. Anyone else been following this thread?
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03-02-2019, 06:06 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 570
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466e
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So nobody else has used this method?? Thinking of giving it a go
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03-02-2019, 07:45 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: Bar Harbor Maine
Posts: 67
Year: 2005
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: Vision
Engine: C7 caterpillar Allison automatic heavy foot
Rated Cap: 72
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I'm in Maine but ill come to Texas and give you a hand if you'd like! we charge $2000 labor with your prep and your materials my son and i will show up and do it right up for you clean and professionally! you just need to strip it out and have the materials ill figure for you sitting there when we arrive! we can stop there or keep going and build you a complete bus? if you have a shop available to work in i can make all of your tanks brackets and any other hardware needed! we do fold out rooms and slideouts as well imagine a 23 x 13 living room in your bus we can do your in-floor heating system running off of an on-demand hot water heater or any other set up needed we are quick but we work pretty much straight through until the job is accomplished if the set up allows us too like noise restrictions stuff of that nature however we will not let the quality of our work slide no matter the circumstances! we try to have a 100% honest success rate with customers a happy customer is a good customer also for others reading this that may be interested we are building to order 28 to 31 a ford and 32 ford reproduction custom skoolie hot rods cowl forward reproduction parts cowl back completely custom close to original appearance with these, we offer a chopped top that lifts up to standing room height when you park! we will build other makes and years if the complete cowl forward is supplied to us in paintable condition! lilman772@gmail.com newenglandskoolies.com/forum
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03-02-2019, 10:24 PM
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2017
Location: Greenwood, Indiana
Posts: 669
Year: 1999
Coachwork: New Flyer
Chassis: D45HF "Viking"
Engine: 11.1L Detroit Diesel S60
Rated Cap: 51,600
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I'm out of breath just reading that post....
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03-03-2019, 05:11 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkyDee
I'm out of breath just reading that post....
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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03-03-2019, 09:15 AM
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Grayson County, VA
Posts: 1,428
Year: 1996
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466
Rated Cap: 65
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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Right? Many.....many thousands of words and not one picture to be seen.
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03-03-2019, 12:19 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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I think it's just wrong to jump into every build thread with an offer to commercially build it for you. I have no problem with it in the classifieds, maybe the site should charge a fee for sponsored vendors to even post a commercial offering.
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03-03-2019, 12:31 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jun 2018
Location: Western Pennsylvania
Posts: 152
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkyDee
I'm out of breath just reading that post....
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Get outta here Marky! Run-on!(run along) PERIOD! /s /s
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03-03-2019, 02:25 PM
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Olathe, Kansas
Posts: 220
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Crown
Chassis: Supercoach
Engine: 6-71TA
Rated Cap: 90
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Quote:
Originally Posted by o1marc
I think it's just wrong to jump into every build thread with an offer to commercially build it for you. I have no problem with it in the classifieds, maybe the site should charge a fee for sponsored vendors to even post a commercial offering.
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Ditto, I have seen this offered in some other threads. I went to their site which is basically a forum that had a few posts. I only saw one bus that was nearly completed and was for sale at 30k. They should post in the classifieds.
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03-03-2019, 02:27 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Dawsonville, Ga.
Posts: 10,482
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Genesis
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466/3060
Rated Cap: 77
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GWRider
Ditto, I have seen this offered in some other threads. I went to their site which is basically a forum that had a few posts. I only saw one bus that was nearly completed and was for sale at 30k. They should post in the classifieds.
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Someone does one roof raise and they are now a professional bus converter.
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03-21-2019, 01:06 PM
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#20
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Bus Nut
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Houston TX
Posts: 570
Year: 1998
Coachwork: Amtran
Chassis: International
Engine: dt466e
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Wow! I didn't get notified of any of the replies after my last post. Just happened to check because I could remember if i even posted
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