Recently acquired this 2007 GMC C4500 shuttle bus. Goals, somewhat in order:
- Fix some obvious leaks, figure out where it is on deferred maintenance items, etc. make sure it's worth keeping, essentially.
- Add hitch capable of at least my current 24ft enclosed, ideally a little headroom in case buddy and I can stumble onto a suitable two car rig.
- Interior "upfit". Somewhere between RV conversion and still a bus. Would like to be able to sleep 2 people in it at the track, nap some kids at a music festival, etc. But need to retain enough roadworthy seating to get a brood of cousins and grandparents to an annual musical festival or two that we have historically attended in our current c3500 short bus (which I'll be selling, ideally somewhere near the top bullet point up there).
- Tires. Two of them have plain to see lumps/flat spots and hard for me to tell which part of the ride quality is tires vs something else worn out vs it's just a medium duty chassis, but eventually I'll bite the bullet on some new rubber.
Some background: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/there-a-class-c-or-short-bus-option-that-can-tow-an-enclosed-trailer/272288/page1/
So at present, it didn't make it home from the sellers. Seller appeared to just be flipping it or maybe selling it for the church that owned it, but he had no background on it other than saying a church had owned it since 2017 and used it sparingly (so it mostly sat). Based on stickers and such, it was a bus for Fairfax Co VA prior to that, and since the odometer is at 389k, I think they used her pretty regular. Hopefully that means regular fleet maintenance routines.
Have ordered a belt, two idler pulleys and a few other bits from Rock Auto, be here next week. In the meanwhile it's been towed from side of I-64 to my job site where I shall enact repairs and complete the last hour and a piece of its journey home, hopefully next week.
