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gut floor or cover floor?

Started by carneybus, November 03, 2015, 03:39:04 AM

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Darkspeed

The best advice I can give is mark all the areas that have nothing directly beneath them and cut those out first! It makes it so much easier.

Jigsaw
Sawsall
Hole saw
Pneumatic chisel
Cutoff Wheel
Respirator and goggles! some of those floors have nasty materials / chemicals in them.
4106 6V92TA MUI + V730 8" Lowered Floor & Polished > http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=24673.0 QuietBox > http://www.busconversions.com/bbs/index.php?topic=29946.0
It's all math and metal...

TomC

I was going to replace the floor on my transit until I discovered it was 1" plywood with 1/4" rubber mat bonded to it. I knew I couldn't redo that kind of floor, so it stayed. The rubber matt has been good preserving the floor from a couple of leaks at times. Just another reason the bus weighed 28,000lbs stripped before I started converting. It weighs now 31,000lbs wet with everything with my wife and I in it. With a 36,000lb gvw, we're still a long way from overloading it. Good Luck, TomC
Tom & Donna Christman. 1985 Kenworth 40ft Super C with garage. '77 AMGeneral 10240B; 8V-71TATAIC V730.

carneybus

thank you all for your wisdom in this. the bus has been gutted and we are heading up to pick up a 26 foot camper from my In-laws. they do not used it anymore so this is what we are doing and let me know if this is a cool idea. we are going to throw a new floor in the bus and gut the camper and use the guts from the camper inside the bus. I was going to buy everything from a rv junk yard, but i was looking over 3 times the amount I paid for the bus. so we will have a working stove fridge sink toilet and everything else in the bus from the camper. it was just a nice way to save money. then we can take the camper and make it into a toy hauler. any thoughts on that? it's just me doing this with a lot of wife supervision. I plan on having the floor in by next weekend though. then the build can begin..  ;D
James
1980 MCI MC9
8V71
Clarksville,TN

uncle ned


Huggy has the insides from a Holiday camper inside her.

Still seems to work good about 15 years later.

uncle ned
4104's forever
6v92 v730
Huggy Bear

Scott & Heather

What Uncle Ned said ^


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Scott & Heather
1984 MCI 9 6V92-turbo with 9 inch roof raise (SOLD)
1992 MCI 102C3 8v92-turbo with 8 inch roof raise CURRENT HOME
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carneybus

so here is an update for ya'll.. started gutting the floor.  :-\
James
1980 MCI MC9
8V71
Clarksville,TN