Week 8 of 2023

Light at the end of the tunnel

Another week of skinning, but the end is in sight! We skinned over the to-be-shower window and nicely enclosed that.

We re-installed the engine air inlet and discovered how steel paint is very unforgiving; every scratch and blemish under the paint can be seen. So we will have to do a LOT of work to get the bus paint-ready later.

Family work day

Saturday was another family work day. M worked on the wiring. The wiring to the external side and roof lights was cut for the raise. They will need to be reconnect to be road compliant, so M went around and reattached/lengthened the wires. Meanwhile, R and N cleaned the side supports so they are ready to be painted and put back.

While they were busy with that, we put the window skins at the back end of the bus in place, as well as the big horizontal piece of skin that now makes it look like the bus is wearing a hat.

Can’t even see that we had to cut off 2” length wise to make it fit. That two-inch strip we later used to cover some unused screw holes where the disability door used to be. Last but not least we mounted the corner steel, which even though amateuristic, look pretty fancy in our opinion. All in all we have covered up three of the windows by now and we think we will leave it at that.

We have now reached the point that we only have the roof transition piece left. With three weeks left in our current storage unit, we are hoping to get that completed so we can downscale to a smaller, cheaper unit. Saving $100 a month would be welcomed!