The House batteries and inverter

This is the bay with the storage tanks ,I enclosed the tanks in 3/4 ply to help support the side walls on the tanks when they are full.Fresh water is 90 gallons,grey water 90 gallons,and 65 gallons black water.

Here's the 6 Trojan T105 house batteries and the 2000 watt Xantrex inverter.

The Bunks,Toilet,Shower ,Master bed base

The master bedroom bed base
Here's the shower,it's a 1 piece fibreglass setup from 'Lowes' .I trimmed down the back to fit the profile of the ceiling.The shower door is a 1 piece item ,also from 'Lowes'.
The most important room of the bus, we have installed a Sealand traveler plus china toilet,which we purchased from Ardemco.The bathroom vanity is actually a kitchen wall cabinet which is only 12 inches deep.I lifted it up to match the height of the kitchen cabinets
The bunks which are full size 74x34 inches,we've already bought the proper sprung mattresses for the bunks,which are really comfortable.

The kitchen

Here's the kitchen starting to take shape,glued and screwed all the cabinets together,then screwed down the 3/4 ply sub counter.Once everything was fixed together I then levelled the counter surface with the horizontal line of the windows.The floor slopes down from the back to the front so I couldn't just sit the cabinets on the floor.

The new Suburban furnace and Norcold fridge

The new Norcold 841 2 way fridge waiting to be fitted.
The new Suburban 34000 btu furnace ready to be installed

Bunk beds and shower stall and bathroom

The view past the bunk beds looking to the front of the bus,shower stall is on the left.
The view looking into the back of the bus
Shower and toilet are separate, the shower opens into the center alley.

The interior framing starts

Using heavy guage steel framing studs we built the wall framing, then blued and screwed the 3/8 ply onto the steel framing.The rear bedroom bed base was fabbed out of 1.5 inch box steel and welded together.

Putting in the plywood

This is where the new plywood started going in,this was back in October 2005

Stripping the interior

Here is a picture taken of the interior after 5 hours of going at it with an impact wrench ,an angle grinder,a sawzall,a big hammer, a crowbar and help from my son Ryan and my Dad John (visiting from England with mutha)

The beginning

Here is our 1986 MCI (TMC) 102A3 purchased from Mike Kadeltz who owns the 'Busconversions' magazine.
This is how the bus looked after we'd driven it back from California,the exterior still looks the same but the interior has changed alot.


The interior before we started gutting it,I had a 20 yard construction dumpster dropped off next to the bus and even with carefully stacking of all the unwanted interior stuff it was still overfull when they came and picked up the dumpster.