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DIY School bus conversion project

A DIY school bus conversion, from gutting the seats to a 2013 road trip through New Orleans, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona on the way to Los Angeles. Build notes and photo dumps from 2011 to 2013.

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Dallas… erm, Frisco, TXPacking. Batteries installed. Leaving.Drapes, sewing, and sheathing the seatsJan 12th 2013 – Cosmetic changes and bathroom stuffChattanooga for an evening!Jan 19th 2013 – Fridge installedOld photo off-loading!March and trips with the busHappy New Year! (or how we spent the first 17 hours of the new year)
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2013

61 posts

Indio and on to LA

Indio was a temporary stop for us before going to the coast. With the trailer hitch getting replaced it kind of fucked up our grey water waste valve. Basically it was now sticking straight up. We…

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Dallas Tattoo

New tattoo from a rad dude in Dallas, go check it! Tattoo ‘s Thanks for the rad tattoo Adam! Adam Stewart at work

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NOLA Tattoo

Matt has a new tattoo post up @ the tattoo page .

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Timezones

We’re discovering that when we ask each other ‘What time is it?’, we need to reference Local or EST. From now on, we’re just going to answer each other in EST and reference local time as needed.

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Battery cables

We had to make battery cables from scratch. We ended up having to buy a heat gun to get the heat shrink tubing to shrink as fast as we liked. Surprisingly easy to do and you end up with some really…

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Trip outline

http://goo.gl/X2Wk0 If you have any suggestions for things to check out, email/text/facebook me or whatever. Or, hell, leave a comment!

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Bringing in the new year with a new video!

We actually did some more work after I took the video, so I’ll need to take another video during the day with some better lighting. Cheers! -Matt

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2012

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Late May work – water system

Matt did a new walkaround video of the bus. We have some more work done than this, but I didn’t take any photos so this is what you get!

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2011

18 posts
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Dent

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Short hiatus

Decided to take a short hiatus while we were getting a ridiculous amount of rain. Almost couldn’t leave work because the streets were flooded so badly. You would think Tampa road commission or city…

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Day 5

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Day 4

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