PART 1) YOU VOTED BUS ! TAKING THE ENTIRE BODY OFF IN ONE PIECE!
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- čas přidán 9. 06. 2017
- What you are a out to see is dangerous! It is not safe and people could be hurt! Doing this could cause injury or death. DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME! WE ARE UN TRAINED AND UN PROFESSIONAL! this is for entertainment only!
brandon got filthy today but it was all worth it when he got too drive the chassis out from under the body! the plasma cutter made short work of all the body mounting plates. plans have changed...looks like the body may be sold whole. - Auta a dopravní prostředky
I used to see those naked buses getting driven from the factory, with the drivers in old flight suits.
A mad sight for a kid, and probably illegal now.
Thanks for the memory.
he was in heaven! definitely in the grey area with the law.
fully air conditioned streamlined non body
looked like you were having way too much fun great project can't wait to end result another great vid
thanks. he was kind of fun at the end....all the work leading up to it was not much fun.
You guys made fast work of that, your boy driving it down the road cracked me up, I half expected him to take it for a wee rip
he wanted to but there was no seat and the brake pedal is at too bad of an angle the way he was crouched. if you notice he bumped in the gradeall when he first started to pull out. he couldnt get the brake pedal applied hard enough.
I thought you was gonna work! Looks like you was screwing off and having fun!!
that was a ton of work! the video just looks like it was easy. did you see how dirty brandon and i were?! brandon looked like he had been working in a coal mine! it was worth it to him to drive the chassis out from under the body. i didnt want him under there but he really wanted to drive it out. alright..... he got dirty from working and i got dirty from falling down.
nice to see Jonathan on utube both of you make some nice videos
Looked like a new bus... Would love to own one but I can't drive and my income would never allow me enough money to get one..
I'm a bit late to the party as I stumbled upon your channel only a few days ago.
You weren't lying when you said this was dangerous @6:54. Glad it all worked out.
welcome... i hope you find something interesting!
Bout had a coronary when Brandon bumped the tire, 4-5 days done in 1. Now what? I know, Fun done, time to put the new plasma cutter to work. Carry on! Great stuff glad I'm here.
hours and hours of pressure washing that light rust off the frame and suspension. i have some time to put in on isolating more wiring. we are glad you are here also!
That was awesome J.C.! It was also nice seeing your son wearing the WVU shirt. I'll bet Jonathan caught that detail as well.
Peter Gozinya it got burn holes in it and was pretty upset about it. that is his favorite shirt. we are trying to find him another one.
Peter Gozinya I don't know if he saw that or not.
I should of known that you knew Jonathan W. as he is quite a builder himself. I have watched all of his... back on subject, that looked really dangerous but why live if you don't really live and that would look good on a work resume. He sure looked like he was having the time of his life. That goes in guinness book of records/LOL
Well Dang that was Awesome man! Wish I lived near you I'd come and help
it was me and my son until some people showed up to watch us lift it off. it went pretty good.
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that running chassis would make a great base for a parade float!
Do you have more of these busses? If yes, are you selling any of them? Im looking at either an old school bus in that length or an old firetruck, as a project here in Denmark ;) thanks for alle the awesome project videoes!
i have several. i bought them for the engines , flywheel housing adapters and rear air suspensions. sorry i am not looking to sell any of them. they are all spoken for in some upcoming projects. i am glad you enjoy the videos.
Yeah i figured as much :) Do you know of any websites that sell then at a fair price?
i find them locally. these ones go for $3500-$4000 around here with a cummins. i bought several in a "package deal" to get a little better price. the ones with the cat diesels go for less.
Oh my flashbacks of my days having to work on ambulances and they never came with a wiring diagram for the boxes or add ons.
and all the wires were the same color! this wasnt too bad. i spent about 2 hours sifting through what wiring i wanted to keep for the next project. it runs, drives, all gauges work like they are suppose to when you see my son drive it out of there.
Did you use the chasis for something else?
Hey the bus body looks like it could make a good deer camp
This very cool I am wanting to do the same thing I have a 1966 f500 I am torn on what I want to either remove my truck body and set it in the bus frame or remove engine trans and axels from the bus and use them on my truck this great I hope u make more videos to help me make my decision and I was looking more towards the 12 valve Cummins instead of the headache of the electronics of the 24
i opted to use the late model frame, steering, suspension with the engine in place. much easier to put the body on another frame than fabricate everything to make engine and trans go into the older truck. not to mention the parts are much easier to source on the late model chassis.
Do you have plans for the running chassis ? Or are you just pulling it all apart
i did have plans for the chassis but all plans are written in sand around here. i was just looking the chassis over and found that the undercoating is making it look worse than it is. i am working on a new plan now.
Now that looked like some beer drinkin hilljack fun!! Lol! I'm thinking OSHA video! At least put a hard hat on!🤙🤙
Very cool. Are y'all in WV? I noticed the shirt.
no we are in ohio.
I am getting the shakes just looking at that " rats nest " !!!
well i was able to isolate the things we needed to make the chassis run and drive.i will go through today and take off some of the useful bus components. the rest will be cut out and the switch panel will be saved for future projects.
Interesting video
interesting movie trivia: in the movie "The Mexican" a chassis manufacturer in mexico drives the bare chassis from one plant to another plant.
I guess that is one way to get rid of your blind spots lol
That’s a Thomas Body. That bus was built in High Point, NC
that bus has to weigh a good 5000 just the body
Thats one way to get 10+ MPG
WOW!
that is what i said.
What ended up happening with the chassis, cool to watch... sketchy but cool lol
i just did a video of removing the rear suspension. the engine and other components will be used on other projects. the frame wasnt clean enough for my original intentions.
Is that a 5.9 or an 8.3?
Why was it taken out of service? Looked like it had plenty of life left in it. That body could make one hell of a playhouse or quick place to stay for a camping spot at a hunting lease or something along those ideas.
They are rotated out of service at 15-20 years old, pretty cheap on the secondary market for what you get, the price of an engine and transmission gets you a bus.
You know , once the bodies is gone, staring at the chassis , it kind of gets ideas all over the place . Usually all are good and feasible , the only hard part is finally decided which . Lol, those are good problems , choosing !!!
i have gone through so many different options i cant remember which one i started with!
Great video, i do comversipns for a living. I can strip a 40 foot flatnose bus in about 8 hours time of work.
great stuff !!!!
it was a good time! i sure though it was going to take longer to get the body off.
J.C. SMITH PROJECTS well worth the watch few funny moments there and i reckon that plasma cutter saves heaps of time especially when you go to cut body up..
the plasma cutter cut the time down considerably. the body mounting plates were very difficult to get to and the bolt heads were rusted far enough that getting a socket to grip was impossible. it looks the body may be sold as of right now.
yeah they make great storage sheds with minimal work
that is exactly what the man wants it for.
Sell the bus body for a mini home. A lot more money and a lot less work!
I hope you put together a new bus with a lift... I thought the inside was nice.. Dirty but nice
quick stupid question,would you take an RV body off the frame the same way?????
i wouldnt. most rvs are not attached to the frame in the same way and they are not as rigid as a bus body.
Necesito un volante con dirección completa como la tiene ese bus.desde Colombia
That bus looks to nice to scrap
looks are deceiving......
Rip bus 2017-2017
All that and no burnout!?!
Now what are you doing with that
Hahahahaha!!! Good times !!
Body off restoration! Are you scrapping the whole bus?
no. plans have changed and someone wants the whole bus body as it is.
That school bus still in great condition why Destroy it. Can be remodel and some repairs.. mr Thomas built some good school bus.. that is very dangerous to lift that bus up.. those cables could come lose and the bus body will drop down.
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U can use that body for a tiny house !!
i have way too much junk laying around as it is!!!
Ever put a mechanical dt in a 4300
yes i have and will be doing it again this summer.
I wanna drive
i have grown men wanting to drive what we have dubbed the "poor mans go cart"
AWSOME.....Please do mine.....
That frame looks just like one that has spent it's life in northeastern Ohio! Driveing that chasse out from under the bus is one of those things that make your but pucker.lol
the older i get the more i worry about that king of thing...when i was young i would have never gave it a thought.
I can’t believe I found someone doing the same stuff that my sons and I do. It looks more crazy when you see someone else do it.
your are so right....while we are doing it...it doesnt seem that big deal but when you see it in the video it looks so much worse.
Can you guys help me out??
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J.C., read the capitalized stuff for the gist of this rant that you know about. This'll bug me if I don't ask you. I'm a School Tax payer like everyone else. It's a property tax here. School taxes never go down unless we, the school district voters, refuse to fund the proposed budget. That bus looked pretty decent to me. If the other ones are roughly in the same shape, WHY WERE THE BUSES TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE? This one had no visible rust, it wasn't too torn up inside and the mechanicals are ok to reuse (some) or you wouldn't have bought them.
Second: You took off the whole body, rather than cutting the "cab area" out of it first. IS THERE A MARKET FOR OLD, USABLE BUS BODIES." RATHER THAN COMPLETE BUSES? (Fantasy) "FRESH FROM THOMAS, REFURBISHED SCHOOL BUSES, ALL NEW MECHANICALS FOR RELIABILITY AND EASY SERVICING.... 8-) ) Around here the schools use a school bus company for their buses, easy to budget and they don't have to fight the voters for each new bus and how they dispose of the old ones. Voters want the District to get the most money possible from them.
Bob Pegram I chose to remove the whole body after spending hours looking at how it was built. this as well as the others were removed from service due to age and overall condition. it looks good in video but the realty is after 14 years on the salty Ohio roads.....the underside is very rusty. these bodies do serve a "repurpose" in our area....farmer sheds, feed storage, equipment storage. It would not be cost effective to repair this body and reinstall on another chassis.
Gotcha, thanks. Pictures/video do "lie" sometimes.
That is, they don't show everything and can be misinterpreted. Not a problem with the video makers. Didn't want you to misinterpret me above
it's ok, i understood exactly what you meant.
people buy buses for church use,campers motorhomes etc.School buses are taken out of service after so many years.It is a safety issue as they are hauling children and the buses have to pass stringent safety inspections every year.
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