 Well, hello Still don't have a name for this thing, but right now we're gonna do a tour of a Decommissioned school bus, so I know everybody does tours about like what they did to it and everybody's like wow Oh my gosh, but there's also a lot of people who don't know what to expect From a school bus how it operates so between me and Michael Navigation nowhere on Instagram. I'm sure that we can basically point out Every single thing to this bus Should we start inside? Yeah, okay. Let's do it I guess we'll start first with the seat because I just realized that I have an air ride seat So to in order to know if you have an air ride You're gonna see an air cushion thing down under the seat and I believe that only the Buses with air ride suspension would have an or air brakes would have an air seat So that means like if it's a Ford e4 50 e3 50 Some kind of Chevy or something like that if you have air brakes and you know, you hear the air, you know Whistle or psst, you know when you're operating it. It's gonna be on the heavier Chassis buses the full-size chassis So that's the first thing for me that was new And then of course another thing so this is the air brake release another thing that you should know is that The buses with air brakes or maybe it's just the large chassis buses. Do you see something here a little weird? Yeah, there's no park. So maybe Michael knows the reason for that Well, you don't need a park because the the air brake when you pull Pull the little yellow tab here it it's gonna lock lock the tire So there's no need for a natural break in the transmission or anything. Okay, there we go So besides that everything is kind of straightforward except for some of the gauges over here is transmission temperature battery amps Engine oil the the pressure the PSI because this is a high-pressure oil system Look that up if you don't know what it is. We have the water, you know coolant temperature regular rpms and miles per hour normal fuel and Voltage and then up here This is a little new if you're coming from a passenger vehicle. This is your air Gauge and it lets you know the pressure so I emptied the tanks. That's why we're in the red zone Besides that on the left-hand side some of these things are marked and some of them may be worn as you can see here heated mirrors Rear heater things like that. These are some of the school bus Buttons, so if you press like the master flash actually have to have the ignition turned I think But once you start pressing some of these Buttons there we go Like you know the stop sign, you know flips out all that so I'm not a pro at these things Michael knows more about that than I do, but some things are pretty basic Here's your headlight switch. Here's your wiper switch Here's your fan the best part which connects to that. Don't forget the best part What's that that oh cruise control? Oh, I got cruise control on this bad boy And by the way, I said in a previous video was a 2002. I was incorrectly told that it was a 2002 It was actually incorrect on my sales agreement that it was a 2002 It's a 2003 the engine many manufacturer was manufactured in late 02 Which the whole thing is at 03 so besides the things that I pointed out Michael do you want to walk us through some other things that you know because you're more familiar with the big buses than I Yeah What do you still want to stick in the cockpit? Do you want to yeah, we can move our way backward if there's something skipped? Okay, I mean moving back this model you have the emergency door Or the handicap door and you have an emergency door over here, which you won't find in every model bus Yeah, you mentioned the Jersey buses don't have Emergency doors right yeah, it depends on state so a lot of times you have to look at state regulations So I'm from the East Coast so New Jersey you probably won't find emergency doors But in New York State you will because there's state laws that require Signed emergency doors or handicapped doors and all their buses So if you're looking for a bus and you don't want to you know a handicap rail Then you know you got to look for a state where the bus was made or where it's being used and you won't find One of these so I'm guessing this bus was in Washington. So I'm guessing the state Has something to do with yeah And also these sorts of like regulations and stuff refer to Once you pass a certain amount of capacity Then you have to have one because it wouldn't make sense to have an emergency door like this on a little Ford E 450 which holds like you know 15 people just big chassis buses. Yeah. Yeah, so um also something Different from state to state you see how wide this is This is like a two-seater on each side the previous bus I had three and three that's also a state regulation Besides that you guys have the normal kind of rubber tread I highly recommend that everyone if you do a conversion rip this stuff out. It smells like my childhood The smell of this rubber is nasty. You'll have the back door if the key is in the ignition and you open this It's gonna make a buzzer sound. Obviously. I don't right now But you know normal kind of roof we got lucky with the screws Here's an emergency exit the last bus I had didn't have one on the roof at all. So Now from a construction standpoint anything you want to point out Biggest thing that buses are wheel wells you got to build around them So you have to figure out what you're gonna do with them. So either got to hide them in a cabinet hide them in a bathroom, you know or I'm not using in your design somehow. I've never done that. I'd usually just hide them cabinets and stuff But besides that, I mean we're gonna gut this thing all the way down We're gonna take all the sheet metal out all the you know all the seats and everything get it down to the bare exterior Metal and you know start building back from there. So yeah, this bus will not look the same within like I don't know. I guess a few days of gutting not even it'll take us like probably a day and a half okay, so we'll well right here as Michael mentioned and then The Windows are all kind of a standard size Now in the back we have one that's bigger, but I don't quite know the reason for that unless you do Yeah, I think it's a design thing, but there's a certain standard kind of size There's metal that goes all the way up and all the way over to the other side. So once this is ripped out, you'll see if you think The words of an airplane Same thing for all you airplane mechanics. You know what he's talking about But yeah This we might be modifying might be adding windows who knows that's a bit down the way But yeah, so seats are bolted in. There's a nut under the frame So, you know, there's that to deal with so other things to expect Wear and tear There's definitely gonna be some wear and tear. However, if you totally got the thing out It doesn't really matter anyways Oh the rear heater we uh, oh, yeah, you look at that so rear heater. So Michael do you want to talk about the rear heater? Sure? Yeah, and a lot of buses you're gonna find these heaters down here They're gonna be somewhere typically behind the the wheel well That runs off the coolant in the engine and it's pumped to the back of the bus so that you know You can get heat for the kids inside the bus But there's actually coolant lines which you can see running along the side channels all the way to the front We're gonna be pulling that out I believe you wanted the you're gonna use in a diesel heater, right? So we're gonna be pulling that out, but you can keep them and use them I've seen people do it in bus conversions so that when you're driving, you know You can just flip the switch and get heat, you know things like that. Yeah, and the reason the reason why it is a coolant heater essentially the coolant's already hot and The bus is only powering a 12 volt fan back there So it's very efficient and it can also bring the temperature of the bus down by dissipating some of the heat So if you were in an overheating situation, you could flip on the heaters and that's how it goes But basically you're just blowing air through a hot radiator And that's generating heat for the kids so What else can we talk about here seatbelts or maybe lack of seatbelts? Seatbelts as you can see there's built-in child seat, but the seatbelts are built-in to the actual seats Up in the front on the full-size chassis Seatbelt goes into the wall comes across like so Because it's an air seat you have latches on the Latches on the seat and this prevents when you're you're bouncing on the seat. It doesn't keep The seat from kind of like bouncing out So if you were to actually get in a seat with a suspension You if you have air on the bus you can switch it over to an air seat But you would have to add these tie straps into the seat To be able to do the full conversion. Otherwise, you're I mean your seat's just gonna fly around. I didn't know that. Yeah, that's good to know So essentially Don't take these out if you do have an air seat. Yeah is what I'm gathering. Yeah, cool Let's see other features here horn is the same Blinker and Bright light flasher this one's a little loose, so we might be replacing that I on this model door compared to the last one I have a Air powered door, so there's an arrow that points this way So that's closed if I were to switch it while there's either air in the tank or when the engine is on That's how the door will operate. So you just hit that And then it opens and then there's an on-off switch for the air door, which is automatic and manual But besides that it's pretty straightforward Airbrakes if you've never driven a vehicle with air brakes. Oh Boy, you're in for a treat. They were very sensitive. Actually Michael could probably tell us why they're so sensitive I mean, I'm not too sure the difference between hydraulic like the actual difference Hydraulic and air brakes actually, I mean I know that when I drive my bus for so long and I go back to a car I put my family members or friends into the dryer and to the dashboard because I'm not used to the braking systems I mean air brakes are just you just I mean I think when you first drove and you tap it and you just go flying I mean, you gotta be real soft with them. Yeah, I'd imagine I mean, I don't know. I'd probably do a compression of air versus liquid, you know something to do with that Yeah, it's they're very Sensitive and very very powerful. This bus is almost twice what my last bus weighed The thing is about 16,000 pounds So but it can also stop on a dime. I kid you not and that's how powerful the air brakes are Just kind of looking around here Also, there's a couple different heating options in the front. There's something coming out of here I don't know how to operate it yet There's another one there that's operated from the from the little dash thing over here I believe I think it's for door And true. Anyways, I'm still getting that getting familiar with this thing We can't figure out give you guys any information, you know, we could answer it badge. Yeah, that's true Also something a little bit different from the vehicle. I had I got myself an adapter. This is it to read the engine This is an OBD to Port here, but what I had to do is I had to plug it into a nine pin connector Let's see if I can get that out Is a different kind of port on this thing? I Don't know which way it goes so I'm not gonna rip it out But anyways, I got an adapter because I'll be using the OBD to port to read the engine and things like that. So That's something to note. Ooh Another thing is there is no front locking mechanism. So Michael suggested adding a simple Combination lock and then one of these I don't know what it a little latch or something. Yeah, yeah, so we have a little latch that's gonna go across the bottom But if you're in if you're inside the bus though a lot of times people want to put locks on the inside Which you can do but if you leave the door on manual a lot of times what I do is just turn the air lock on and The air tanks will hold the air so throughout the night my hair my doors are actually held closed by Air rather than an actual locking system on my bus. Interesting, which is an option. Cool All right, let's jump outside to see what we can expect from a school bus Now if you are lucky enough to get a nice clean bus like me You will be able to clearly and cleanly see the frame with no rust flakes chipping off Anywhere there's really only just a little bit of rust on the drum brake and Then a little bit on the turbo that is from heat that will happen no matter where you are And a little bit on the exhaust headers, which you can't get a clear View from from this angle, but just take my word for it. They're down there. They're a little rusty It's from the heat and I think we have a little rust on either the water pump in the front or the The fan right there the connecting part of the fan Besides that it is pretty clean. I mean I've seen Tens of buses I mean a lot of buses at this point in my life And this is by far if it shows up on film or not the cleanest bus I have ever seen so not a bad purchase even though if you guys saw the other video There was a little weird thing about price something to note But school all school buses should have these bubble lights on the front that is actually I think made to see If any kids like run in front of the bus while the bus has stopped for us I use it to see if I'm gonna hit anything when I'm turning it to anything close. It's gonna come with a front I don't know. What would you call it a sweeper? Yeah, I'm so some kind of arm that floats out. That's a safety mechanism To make sure nobody's there behind it. You also have your Toast straps and stuff so you get stuck you have front of your toe straps So I hope we don't get stuck, but yeah, we do we've got something to rack to you on the chassis At least by now we have two fairly proficient people with the engine And also we have badge as one of our lifelines a dial a friend. So Besides that a big old diesel engine most likely if you have a large chassis if you have a smaller chassis It could be gas or diesel Actually, I take that back some of the larger ones could be gas as well But I believe those are for the older models. They kind of wised up and I'll switch to diesel at some point You'll notice definitely a lot of like current electronics That's what powers a lot of the lights and the control panel here I want obviously you'll get a stop sign with it, which you should replace or take off Here's the fuse panel and we are lucky. We have the whole thing here, which is kind of It's not expected to have it this clean and so nice, but we do we're lucky for that here is a little Relay for the back lights the amber color lights the master switch overrides stop arm left red Flashing all that stuff. That's probably gonna come out if you're not familiar with That the like a 12-volt wiring system. Maybe you just don't want to touch any of the buttons or the wires Just so you don't short anything You can also call the manufacturer of the bus and all the wires have numbers and labels on them Hmm So you can get the wiring schematic a lot of times from the companies and then you can You know go through now to figure out what what that number in wire represents if you need to get rid of it or use it Yeah, and also sometimes printed on the actual wire will be The actual words of what it is for my last one. It's it said things like Rear brake lights so that's not that's not common that you're lucky if you have it down below here You will have some kind of a battery system battery bank. We have three 12 volt batteries in here So that is nice that'll You know come in handy make sure we get plenty of starting power Like I said on this one for some reason it says to drain the air tank I think badge said that is for condensation after you drive the bus around you just Get rid of the air We'll go over Michael's gonna do a DIY thing So we'll go over how how to remove labels and vinyl decals and all that fun stuff, but um Yeah, besides that if you don't know what air brakes are just look for some airbags Right about there when you're checking out buses Air ride suspension is great in the back Obviously you got your brake lights blinker reverse lights and then up top you got your school bus Flashing lights and all that fun stuff and then those are just running lights right there so Do you want to add anything about what to look for? If you if you are if you don't know about school buses you have any tips Yeah, look at the I mean did you show them the frame frame rust? Okay looking yeah, I feel like that should be number one thing is besides engine and stuff you want to look underneath the bus and It should hopefully look something like this bus if it doesn't I mean it's not the worst But this bus I mean still has like the original coating on it essentially. I don't it's amazing But you would ideally want to look exactly like this. This is a great example But if it does have some surface rust, it's not the end of the world If it's like any type of you know rust where you could poke at it and stuff and start scraping stuff off I mean you might want to start looking for a bus. There's a million of them out there Go find a better one. Yep, but number one rule is a rusty bus is always going to be a rusty bus That's true. There's a lot of upgrades you guys can make you can change the tires You can change something with the engine the one thing you cannot upgrade is rust once you have it. You're stuck with it So anything else here? Oh Know there's a lot of people asking me. Hey, what engine to get this particular engine is a t444 e? International it's a 2003 another great one is the DT 466 Those are both fantastic stay away from the VT 365, which is also known as the 6.0 liter in the Fords international made made the engines for the Ford in this time period You have a Mercedes and you like it. Yeah, the Mercedes 900. Yeah, I love it. Okay You don't find them too too often you find them in the freight liners around like I think o2 to get away or something Mm-hmm, but yeah, I mean I love it. Yeah, great Other good engines are the Cummins 5 9 and the Cummins 8.3 There are many other options out there for engines I encourage all of you guys who are interested in finding a school bus do your homework get on the Schoolie net get on the forums ask around poke around type in an engine Type in problems after it on Google see what comes up at you know go down a local school bus yard talk to the mechanics Maybe they can recommend something stay away from something, but um If you didn't see the other video this bus was $4,500 You can find it for less on the auction you can find it for more at a reseller Whatever really fits your budget fits your needs your wants your wishes There is a bus out there for you and they're dirt cheap. Yeah, they are. Yeah, you get a lot of bus for for the price these engines alone are Worth I would say two to three thousand dollars removed from an engine from a vehicle So the engine you could say in a school bus is worth as much as the entire bus if it's properly working The rest is just metal Yeah All right, if you notice raining a little bit We just tried to provide some helpful information Also give you a tour of a school bus before it gets worked on So hopefully that helps you guys if you're searching for something or if you're just curious What on earth you get for a few thousand bucks? So? Also check out navigation. No one on Instagram. He's got the best bus in the entire universe. Well Almost until this one's done. Yeah, and I will see you guys in the next video