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12-23-2017, 09:39 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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New to skoolie
Just bought my first school bus and will be converting it to a toterhome For pulling a gooseneck trailer( haul old tractors to shows) have found a lot of good info on this site already.
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12-23-2017, 10:00 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Welcome Ollie
That sounds like an interesting build. It's not the first time for a 5th wheel hauler, but always interesting.
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Robin
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12-25-2017, 04:35 PM
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Traveling
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Midwest
Posts: 2,573
Year: 2003
Coachwork: BlueBird
Chassis: TC2000
Engine: 5.9L Cummins
Rated Cap: '00
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Welcome !
Cool ! Old Oliver Tractors, I'm guessing?
Looking forward to a good build- I have some tractor collecting buddies and they do the best work. One guy out by me just makes replacement sheet metal for old tractors- niche, but he makes a good buck.
I'm guessing you will be shooting for front engine bus.
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12-25-2017, 10:13 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Does someone need a nice old cleatrack? It has new looking rails and still has the original magneto.
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Robin
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01-20-2018, 09:16 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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Pic's
Was warm today and got all the seats out,next step,cutting off the back half of the body.
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01-20-2018, 10:46 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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If you'd post a few pictures it would help us feel like we were there. Yours is an unusual build so there is a strange interest. Some may think this is borderline bus abuse, but if it serves a purpose it's still good.
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Robin
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01-21-2018, 09:57 AM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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Here is first pics
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01-21-2018, 11:01 AM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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I've never seen this done before so pardon my questions. I assume you are shortening the frame so the back end more resembles a bobtail truck?
That's the kind of bus chopping I've been wanting to do.
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Robin
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01-21-2018, 10:57 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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Yes,body is getting cut about a foot in front of rear axle at a body seam,and also shorten frame and have a 6 foot(or so) flat bed with goose neck hitch for hauling tractors with 25 foot gooseneck trailer
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01-22-2018, 10:23 AM
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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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It has been done before and from what little I have seen, very successfully. Most units re-attached the rear cap right in front of the 5th wheel which is typically right on top of the rear axle.
Hope you post some pix. Should be an interesting build. Go for it.
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02-17-2018, 07:56 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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Pic's
Got some more work done today
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02-17-2018, 10:20 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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That really opens things up and improves the view out the back.
Just a couple weeks ago someone was looking to buy the back end of a bus shell like you took off to put about 5' back on their toter hauler.
That's a chunk of metal. Did you just roll it off?
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Robin
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02-17-2018, 10:41 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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Had a lot of rivets to grind off,hook on to the back of the bus with my tractor and pulled it off on to the ground.
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02-17-2018, 11:27 PM
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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I think we've all wanted to cut a bus one way or another. You're satisfying that urge in a lot of us right now.
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Robin
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02-24-2018, 04:40 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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Installed the back end on the bus
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02-24-2018, 04:44 PM
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Mayville ND
Posts: 30
Year: 1997
Coachwork: International/crown
Chassis: Carpender
Engine: 444E International
Rated Cap: 71 pass
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The back end is back on
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02-24-2018, 06:45 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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No wheel well humps inside, cool.
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