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Stage 1 rebuild

Week 9 of 2023

Small updates

We had a slow week this week. We are trying to get the transition covered, but to do that, we had to put the driver window back. During our trip from California there was a lot of draft coming from that window and it kept sliding open. It started leaking as we drove through rain in Houston. After some discussion, we agreed that it was best to replace this window with an RV window. They are much more solid and leak free then bus windows. Hence, we ordered one and had to wait for it to come in before we could continue.

We did start putting a transition piece in on the door side of the bus. We still have to finish it but did not get to it this week.

Once the RV window came in, we closed the opening with a full sheet of metal.

Once the metal was in place, we cut the hole out of it for the window. The top and bottom supports were welded into place. After setting our steering wheel and blinker on fire, extreme caution and concern was used welding in this area but we had no choice.

Once we had the hole cut we noticed since we overlapped two sheets at the top of the window, that things just did not fit right. So we ended up removing the screws, cutting the sheets and welding them together.

New driver window

It’s starting to look good, but we are not finished yet! More to follow next week