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Bus roof raise.
Cutting the last hat channels and raising the bus roof.
Mci s in particular are a monocoque design meaning they do not have a center or lower chassis structure.
The roof is actually part of the shell structure integrity.
It s all very exciting so let s get into it.
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The humans began the roof raise by constructing four equal walk boards.
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Essentially you need to disconnect the roof from the body of the bus raise it to the height you want it build in supports to reattach the roof and then cover the gaps in sheet metal and put in either the original bus windows or add different windows as needed.
View from under the bus.
Raising the roof on a bus can be a very dangerous task without the proper skills and equipment.
There are several different popular techniques for achieving this.
Every bus is different which means every roof raise will be different but the concepts are similar throughout the roof raise process.
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These handy aides are used in the construction industry to help workers using scaffolding.
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As most of you probably know we have a flat nose front engine bus.
So we prepped the bus for the raise most of the day on saturday removing rivets removing windows setting up the scaffolding and putting the whole bus up on blocks.
They fit our rented scaffolding.
I really didn t want to use the car jacks for the whole roof raise.
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