Posted by modirt on January 21, 2019 at 06:56:41 from (199.187.163.74):
In Reply to: School Bus Chassis posted by modirt on January 19, 2019 at 15:43:01:
Thanks for putting all that together. Helped a lot.
So the part I'm interested in harvesting from an existing bus is that chassis.....what you seem to be calling a "glider".
Get the right bus and the chassis / drive train will have a lot of life left in it.....as functional for some uses as a new one and at a fraction of the cost......if you can get the body and chassis apart.
As a hay hauler, if you do the bed support framing right, it should be good for hauling 5 ton......10,000 pounds. Maybe more? And yes the bed framing, like on a school bus, has to be part of the structural support to keep it all from flexing.
Flat nose transit style has the driver seat and controls right over the front bumper. With luck, a flatbed frame could mount over that, coast to coast and all controls, etc. stay where they are. Flat nose transit styles are also more maneuverable with front steering wheels moved several feet back from the front bumper as opposed to right behind it.
With some I've heard of, the engine was moved back and lowered to retain access to it and to lower the deck height. If you did that, it may not matter......transit of or other style. But then you may have to re-create the driver position.....seat, steering wheel, throttles, brakes, switches etc. Not as easy as using what already exists. Or again, those guys who know how it all works and a knack for fabrication of linkages, etc. could probably move the engine and retain the controls up front.
If the transit style already has the engine as low as it needs to go, then it's all grins and giggles and good to go as is.
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