Got A School Bus For A Camper!

all right well got up today and figured it's my school bus so just driving out uh about two hours away from home here to pick up a school bus hopefully if all works well and and we're gonna well obviously i'm gonna turn that into a camper or something like that so the adventure continue all right we have drove quite a ways actually seeing snow again we're fairly far north in alberta and i think i see where we're going there's school buses yeah this is it in the right place indeed meeting up with uh cody here we're gonna take a look at one of these buses i don't know which one it is but uh they all look kind of familiar i think it's that guy over there perfect length not too short not too long okay well in the bus here doing a little test drive at the road levon and joe dirt yeah you want to uh want to hold that just enter into the general direction got a bill of sale here ready to go it's already you're really prepared for us yeah the warranty is already off so it's good yeah that's when i blow the head gaskets on the test drive yeah exactly absolutely yeah right i got a sequel too how bad are these things in uh situations not the best not the best units ever for that there's some great tow hooks if that counts yeah no i've seen the tow hooks actually i'll be throwing a winch onto it too that would be the ticket with a snatch block then you're then you're safe right beauty yeah you could uh take her right up here at the end and go around the block avenir is the end of the road man you just gotta yeah pull your loop around and that's her she's a section of land that's pretty fancy camera you got here yeah that's a dji pocket too it does the job i yeah we knew you were coming so i put a word in with the boys i tried actually my uh great grandfather actually founded pomonden like 111 years ago or something you know that's so cool yeah so that's why my last name is right we originally came from quebec and then came down to michigan and they didn't like her in the states so they migrated out here in the mud yeah i wondered about that if you just you know some people just use a fake last name i thought like no no that's definitely pomonan is my last name you betcha yeah there's some history there the main thing was um when they came out here they were looking for farmland and stuff right there there were farmers out there in carpenters right so oh yeah yeah you can take it right right here yeah you betcha this is just the coolest thing ever honestly dude there's a huge culvert at the end of this road yeah you need an episode too i thought of you right away over there yeah no i want to find it it's massive dude i want to find a pretty dry one and do like a build a ford in it yeah what was the deal with the car stopping on top like that on your culvert video no idea at first i thought it was like dude i was like one in the morning when i was watching this and i was like right there with you like what's going on here what was the deal like i couldn't believe that i think somebody just pulled over to take a whiz just puts the four-ways on and everything like that oh my god your heart must have been given her it was playing now okay the um the test drive perform well there's nothing hanging off of it i'm not a mechanic so i'm not even gonna pretend to be the tires look good nothing's hanging off of it and i've got a couple of friends who are diesel mechanics so there should be no issues there if we have a problem just have to get it home rip the seats out and start camping in this thing so we're gonna go into town grab a stack of money come back with insurance plates and everything and drive this thing away okay after many hours of driving today we've actually got this thing with a license plate and insurance uh in my name so we're gonna start making tracks back to hotel um i had no idea if i should be driving this with the license i got but i think it should be okay from what i've read i'm not using it to bring kids around and it seats like like 21 people including the driver but the seats are coming out soon enough anyhow so let's uh make tracks yeah we got her from uh it's actually a bus company out here they it's not just a one-off guy selling a bus it's an actual uh that's an outfit and they got a ton of these ones so let me see how does this work door close that beats me about the door there we go that seems to do something [Music] oh yeah there we go okay yeah certainly jump on the wheel drive a school bus why not what could go wrong get out of here so i didn't get far in this a little bit stuck definitely going to upgrade the uh tires and put some chains on this uh or have some chains with me anyhow okay we're unstuck and we are here going down the road in a school bus of all things so we're gonna get closer into town and then we're going to top this up with diesel i'm afraid to even know what that's going to cost but yeehaw here we go after about eight hours of total driving today we figured yeah let's stop at a hotel for the night so we're parked into the days in here and yeah the school bus she is uh she's pretty good um really bad on diesel uh compared with the little toyota corolla we drive everywhere that was an eye opener so yeah there's uh going to be definitely a good future in this um i'm just going to relax make some phone calls and then we'll get back on the road tomorrow and show you more of this bus because uh this is the most eccentric vehicle i've ever bought like there is um you got to be a unique fella to own a private school bus for camping but here we are i get a locksmith as well daytime is here gonna have a coffee gonna start trucking on the road here this awesome little uh little bus and uh yeah once we get home i'll just do a quick walk through about the bus and uh you know show that things that need work you know some of it obviously there's going to be problems here and there but uh some of it's just awesome um i'm so excited this is just gonna be crazy so we will catch up with you um once we get home down the road beautiful wife is just pulling up with a copy from me right now all aboard let's go camping getting through some error codes on the bus we fixed a couple of issues already and there's a lot more to do but it's not too bad we just recently got a traction control and abs light coming on so it's not super good but we have yet to rip the seats out and we will however the seats are bolted from underneath as well they're not just screwed in from the top so we're gonna have to uh either crawl under the bus or somebody will um just zip off the the top so we're probably gonna grab a grinder and do that mosquitoes already out here but uh yeah the bus super super cool super good investment i think because we're gonna get a lot of camping use of this contraption uh we're gonna probably just take out most of the seats other than these two ones here at the front for now and uh we'll remove the front throw on a some seat belts or something so that we can start using this for camping immediately because we're not just gonna wait for six months to try and actually build this completely it'll be there it goes but yeah awesome swing open emergency exit windows well we've all been in school buses before well i was and uh yeah we're loaded with firewood ready to have a fire here tonight but this is the bus for now and we'll see on the next update because well we can do like one last little walk around here and then the next update coming through there should be some changes on this thing we've uh the other issue was the washer fluid pump so we're going to replace that crazy neighbor managed to find one for a reasonable price which is great and we're going to get to the bottom of this wheel situation they don't look i don't know the the tread really gets plugged up super quick uh not self-cleaning treads at all by any stretch but yeah it's uh number five that means i need to buy four more in order for this to make sense and uh yeah when they're not a school bus anymore they block all that stuff off that says school and they cover up your emergency flashing lights a little bit of rust here and there but thick steel not like a small car crazy neighbor has removed a lot of uh stickers on there you can see the sun fade on that pretty clearly it doesn't take long um look at that no crawling under the hood for the fuses this is uh the dream of a lifetime here just like that and they got breakers like these are circuit breakers they're not even spade fuses but they fit into the spade fuse spots so that's really neat i haven't seen that before and of course a couple batteries why not at least two i could probably fit three in there and yeah um that's that's what it is we're gonna pop the bonnet and see what's under here sure let's crack the box this girl's hiding so obviously for mechanical enthusiasts that may be wondering it's the 6.0 the worst engine ever created apparently but it has been remanufactured there's a sticker on there and they were addressing problems with these uh navistar uh engine that was produced for both ford and international they have completely different computer systems that control uh the engine ford really tried to squeeze all the juice out of them they could and they started exploding uh this navstar one has got to be about 200 horsepower with a lot of torque that's uh what we got here so we'll give it a once-over i've heard there's a bunch of ways to bulletproof these things so they don't explode quite so much and uh yeah love the uh alternator that's a big guy it looks like it's like the size of a chicken size of a big roast chicken that's good belt's in good shape other than that you know neither of us are see it says no step right there and i think they're implying no step two that's my general assumption about that anyway heated mirrors a whole bunch of really good stuff on here that we'll get to at some point but i thought i would show you all the boss uh and what's happening in in bus world we have yet to name it if you have any name suggestions that's good it's a shorter bus i was thinking maybe hunker downey jr or stealth bus or hunker bus or something like that so there's more creative people out there that can come up with uh with the name any wordsmiths please um leave a comment there and let me know what i should call this this monster and one of the things we thought we'd get rid of they have these shoplifter mirrors on the front of it just beautiful if i'm doing a tight turn i don't need to get out and see if i'm gonna actually clear i can drive right around without having to try and back up again we just did that this evening so ta-da the bus and we'll see you on the next update everyone

Channel: Steve Wallis Step 2

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Keywords: camping, bus camping, school bus, skoolie, van life, steve wallis, camping with steve, hunker down, step 2, steve, wallis, school bus camping

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Length: 16min 4sec (964 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 15 2021

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