The idea was to make a frame cover it with 22 plywood anchor it the van with screws fill the voids rear corners with spray foam red cans that cost about 3 at a hardware or building supply store coat this with laminating resin fiberglass over the corners and edges of this structure first with 1 1 2oz fiberglass mat then over the entire structure with 10 oz.
How to add a roof to a bus.
Yeah i didn t really think this first project through very well.
We decided originally to lift the roof a full 24 to maximize our space since we were already going through the trouble of raising the roof in the first place.
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The most popular reason is value.
It took three weekends to complete and was extremely messy.
Using yakima heavy duty 4 bolt brackets along the vertical sides of the pop top or.
A raised roof coach is easier to sell and usually is about 15 000 20 000 more value.
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Each piece was placed and glued apart from each other then great stuff spray foam was used to fill in the gap.
I had to cut over 200 individual pieces to follow the curve of the bus roof.
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On buses vanagons and eurovan mv weekenders the side brackets make more sense functionally.
School bus conversion to motor home 7 raising the roof on my school bus step by step duration.
We planned on adding a deck which would add around a foot to the top of the bus.
Why raise the roof.
One of the most popular structural changes to make is raising the roof.
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At gowesty we install roof racks on pop top vws in one of two ways.
Our bus was a little less than 9 tall in its original state.
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