Ive had three days off and have worked in the bus two of them..
I have finished getting all the seats torn apart and out of the bus. I now have a pile of leather and foam in my driveway that my wife isn't to happy about but it will be ok..
I have now torn the back bulk head out of the bus to gain access to the rear student lights.. I am in the process of getting the rest of the wiring from them pulled out and disconnected.
The seat were removed with a sawzall to be able to gain better access to the brackets that were bolted in to the bus floor. I have now ground off all the bolt heads and have removed them. As a note to others coming in new to a bus conversion rent or buy a big grinder being 7'' or bigger as using a small 4'' grinder will take forever and it will eat through grinding wheels like crazy. Now that all those brackets are up I went through and ground off the small screws holding the middle aisle rubber trim down. (Man does that rubber smell burn the hairs in your nose ;).. Those screws have to be removed due to them going all the way through the plywood and into the metal floor. After that I went through and removed all the metal shrouds covering the rubber heater hose for the back heaters. While removing those there are metal covers around all 4 wheel wells that have to be removed. All these keep in mind have screws that are rusted so with my luck I had to grind them all off.
Now after all that has been removed I was able to start removing the plywood floor. I am only half way done with that as by the time I got to this point I was tuckered out and quit for the night. I also in between all this I removed all the rubber and plywood from the steps.
Next step will be removal of the rest of the plywood flooring and start removing the metal sides inside the bus to gain access to the inner wall for insulation. Before insulation all the metal surfaces will be painted with a rust style paint/primer to stop the rusting.
The attached pics are not up to date with this post, those are to come in my next post. As always I am all for any suggestions or tips anybody may have. Thanks
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