We start the bus at 0F for a test we are doing to see if our factory installed bus heaters will keep the bus warm at 0F. If they do we will be installing a 45k btu Webasto heater to heat the bus
I'm suffering from depression and anxiety and watching such beautiful car camping videos help me to feel calm and relax from unwanted fearful thoughts due to my OCD issue
As a Swede, I'd be happy to live in Alaska. It's like home, with the exception from the language and that we don't have racoons and the currency. Everything else is more or less the same
Woow if i had luxury house bus like this, i would have considered myself a lucky man and would have spend rest of my life in this very beautiful luxury house bus
DIY is the best thing ! oooh yeah for sure ! This is not a camping car ( camping bus ) but a house with wheels ! That's absolutely enough for my cat and me for live comfortably ! Fantastic ! really amasing , congractulations ! Hello from Belgium ^^ PS : You can use a simple bicycle to run a dynamo or a DC motor for recharging some batteries , on cold time that's good first for the body and after for batteries ! Sport and current ^^ That's just a little tip from an electrician DIY lover ;) PPS : Absolutely very good job ! when we make something self made and know all work properly that a total happiness ^^
I’ve already Subscribed and watching this bus build and it is so awesome God blessed you with a talent for building stuff that is amazing I wish I had that talent! I truly believe that is a God given gift!!! Really glad I found your channel! May God bless you and all your loved ones and keep all you guys safe through these bad times we’ve been living in!!! Now back to watching your videos!
I think you should get a good back-up propane heating system with its own thermostat. With those cold temperatures heat is a must have. Propane heat will run even if the bus won’t start. BEAUTIFUL JOB GUYS, GOOD LUCK ‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
I have a propane furnace I could mount if needed, but the webasto is what would be heating the bus when camping I don’t plan on heating with the engine except for when I’m driving down the road. Thanks for watching
Love the inset screen of the exhaust pipe during the winter start-up (after sitting idle for weeks) -- proving it really DID start! Next step would've been to have time & date stamps on both videos to silence any lingering nay-sayers! Excellent stuff, DIY Alaska.
I sold school bus parts for the better part of 15 years. Webasto is the best way better than Espar, with Webasto you can get different fuel nozzles that will burn multiple different fuels from gasoline to kero to old oil.
You're really like the heater I have one in my truck and I have 1 in my RV and it's cold as it gets in Alaska it's still kept me warm also they don't use a whole lot of fuel. Your RV friend😎👍🇺🇲🇺🇲
Very nice rig... I have had the slide out idea floating in my head for so long I forgot about it, until I watched your videos. Nice to see how it can be done... hopefully I'll get a chance to get a bus in my near future. I'm kinda picky as I want a pusher and they just don't use them locally or anywhere within 500km from me.
Same same. I've been living in my "mobile condo" for almost 4 years. Here in the state of Maine.. I've learned many tricks to keep warm and maintain thawed water lines
@@psychopitt1982 all my water lines and tank are under the back bedroom which is above the wheel wells and that is where one of the heaters is my water is a little on the warm side but at least in won’t freeze
Cool. I would mount wood stove in center of the bus. It could hear the whole bus evenly of it's centered. These buses are cold. From windshield area up front has to be insulated some how cover those windowss and windshield so much work. I'm plan out schoolie and it's endless possibilities. Thanks for sharing. You have a great and unique rig.
I wish you put a combi hot water heater and domestic water Run flexible the line and do radiant flooring Run glycol to prevent freezing Awesome build Living the dream
You say you bought a bus - you bought a lot of parts, devices, equipment and everything you need + your work and your time. Have you counted all the costs? Wouldn't it be better to buy a nice finished RV for the same budget??? Will there be any surprises regarding your modifications? I know that such constructions are a bad idea! You have plenty of RV campers at good and beautiful prices up to USD 20-30 thousand! 👍
PS, burning a lot of diesel. Not to mention the wear and tear on the engine. Propane is the way to go. There are so many cheap and quality models available, give it a look. AGAIN GUYS BEAUTIFUL JOB‼️👍👍. Vinny 🇺🇸
I thought about it but one thing I learned yrs ago is that if you plan for what you have now when the project is done life changes and you need to readjust so I figured my kids could use a blow up mattress and sleep on the pull up couch
Another thought is a fairly good sizes pellet stove like you were saying where the chair is and a smaller one in the back bedroom area. You could probably store quite a few bags of pellets on the bus. Or maybe a wood burner up front and a pellet in the back. That way you could cut wood where your docked for the front and less pellets to drag along to support the back one. My brother has been burning wood for years and now swears by the pellet stove he got. Very efficient he says. Great Job by the way. :-)
Beautiful job man... Wondered if you figured out the webasto yet? If not I have a couple suggestions.. where the heater line comes out of the engine there should be a valve on both lines, the in and out, then go into a manifold with seperate valves for each output. Put a new line from the manifold to the rear heater, and take the original return from the front heater back to the engine.. if you have a fuel tank heater that should be out of the manifold as well.. probably need to of the same manifolds so you can do the returns the same. When you get the manifolds get them with an extra spot or two for future expansion.. like a water heater line or another auxiliary heater for your bathroom or whatever...
I haven’t pulled it in the shop yet but will soon, I I was thinking something similar I’ll also add calving so I can bypass the engine if I need to, also this bus had a small webasto on it which if I can get it working it’ll be part of the system also.
@@diyalaskanlifestyle ya I had several semis and they always made it so you could shut off everything at once or any accessories individually... It's often how we got home to fix stuff...
Did you say you ran the heater lines outside the bus to the rear heater of the bus? If so you'll probably have to insulate those hoses. Nice bus conversion
Hello great video. I'm a new subscriber. Bus looks good can't wait to see it finished. where did you get the metal from for the outside and the height of it.
@@johnniebunton4978 I used 1” square tube it fit perfect inside the hat channel then I weld angle iron to that so my rivet lines stayed in line. I made a video that goes over the roof raise if you’d like to watch it
I'm sure glad you changed your mind about the roof transition, that would have had the aerodynamics of a brick wall otherwise. Then dropping it down from your initial 30" raise was another good move. Not sure what you were thinking of at first. lol Why not swap your heater hoses so that the hot water from the engine circulates through the rear (bedroom) heater first then up to the front heater? You are losing that heat by the water travelling up and back which make it twice as cold then it would if it were only travelling one way. Simply swap them from the engine itself so you can still use the same hoses.
Yeah 30” was way to tall the only reason I considered that was so I wouldn’t have to modify the slide outs. I put a second video out of the webasto install and first use in the winter it worked good, I’ll make some minor changes down the road I’m sure. Thanks for watching
Yeah I can see that I almost have it completely installed, it was constantly in the pre/post purge because the pump on the unit wasn’t moving the antifreeze fast enough so I installed a 12 volt circ pump to move it faster. I plan on running my little Honda 2000 generator all night while winter camping
Yes we have to winterize our motor homes after every trip in the winter, I blow out with air and used hose for this reason also I made sure my brass fittings were higher then the hos if possible so that way if some H2O was not fully blown out my fittings wouldn’t freeze and break
@@diyalaskanlifestyle Thanks for answering! You have the best looking converted bus I ever seen in all the youtube videos. The shape, color schemes, functional sideouts, interior decorations and mindful planning of the heating systems are stunning. Of course, you also did a very job mechanically in order to have an old bus started in such weather conditions. Congratulations!
I only used the cord to plug in the block heater on the engine so that it would start it was getting well below zero near -20 at night when I took this video
