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H3-41 Replacement Side Windows
I am considering doing an H3-41 conversion. Peninsula Glass will no longer do side windows for the H3. Do you know of any other sources for replacement side windows that include sliders?
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16 Replies
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Try Prevost.
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I tried Prevost. They list the windows at $15,000 each, but would sell for $8,000 per window.
Just a little expensive.
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This is likely not a popular comment, but the effort to do a conversion on a coach doesn’t make sense economically.
A former seated coach has been rode hard and put away wet meaning the chassis has substantial needs that are only going to be met with a lot of money and sweat. This totally ignores the cost to do a safe, comfortable, useable house conversion plus the time and effort required.
Given the purchase price of older professional conversions it is far more practical to find one that was a motor home conversion and likely has relatively few miles on the chassis.
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Jon: I agree with your comments. This will be my third conversion if I can fine the right bus. Condition is important and I want a rust free chassis. On my last conversion, a 1974 MCI MC5B, I spent a lot of time upgrading the drive train and repairing rust damage. Air bags, shocks, air lines, link bushings, changed out the standard transmission to a Allison MT644 etc. The engine was and is in very good condition. I then started the conversion with a 8 inch roof raise, rv windows, hot spray insulation etc.
Non of this made any sense economically but I enjoy the build process. I spent all of my professional career at a desk or visiting job sites so this is now my hobby and it keeps me active and the conversion process is a challenge. I enjoy all aspects of the process: mechanical, electrical, plumbing, wood work etc. I have a shop to work in and all the required tools.
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Trust me when I say this. As someone who has done a conversion before if the foundation for your coach is a professionally converted older coach you can get all the same feelings of accomplishment working on it to make it your own, but at least you are not starting with a beat to death seated coach. In addition to not having to start from the wheels up, you also have all the pieces and parts to make a conversion. You can tear it all apart and reassemble it using your own floor plan and designing your own systems, with all the important and expensive stuff already on the coach.
I don’t know your level of expertise, your financial situation, your time schedule, or your expectations for the end result, but with a professional conversion you will see the depth of knowledge and attention to detail rarely matched by folks doing their own conversions. It becomes a homebuilder’s textbook on how to do a conversion.
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Jon, with all due respect, your answers have nothing to do with the original question. But in response to your posts, I certainly see your line of reasoning.
I live near Nashville, TN. where there are a number of conversion companies that build for the entertainment industry. I have seen their work and I just don’t get it. These people are charging well into the millions for a completed coach and yet, their cabinetry is still particle board and laminates. ARE YOU KIDDING?
As it is with so many different projects that people take on, everyone has a set of parameters unique to his or her situation. I’ve wanted a Prevost very badly for a dozen or so years and I have no where near the money required to even buy a used converted coach. I’m so poor that even the mechanics at Prevost in Goodlettsville shun me when I drive on to the lot in my old GMC Vandura. But fortunately I have a lot of skills. When I cribbed my Prevost off the ground to look at the chassis, I was horrified to see the cancer. But guess what? I’m a darn good welder and I fixed it all.
It was the same with my cabinets. There is no particle board anywhere on this bus. I could go on and on but really, it all depends upon each individual’s situation.
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With regards to windows….H3-41? Also year as Prevost changed the windows on several years…
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I had been looking at a 1997 Prevost H3-41 with frame windows but have now committed to a 1997 MCI 102D3.
It is a southern California bus with no rust and low miles on a rebuilt engine and automatic transmission. Looks like a good unit for conversion.
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see you moved on to mci. on windows for either you need to do math on E-rating of glass. will surprise you how little from high $$ replacements. Mirror tinting to reflect heat on side and down to 3 inch above site line of driver will help keep heat out. IT Works for a few hundred instead of $10,000..Bob
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I am aware of the effect of tinting. Our intent is to install duel pane side windows with horizontal sliders with screens. A portion of the side windows will be removed and covered with sheet steel and then insulated. New windows will have a fairly high level of tinting. Front windshield will receive a uv/ir blocking membrane to 3 inches above driver sight line.
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This was our 1st bus conversion 48 Silversides straight 6 2stroke Detroit with 4 on the Tree had to double clutch to shift.
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Art, way cool dude!
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SUPER COOL !!!
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Art, so jealous. Will kill to have a seated coach like that just to cruise around in and watch heads turn! You still have it? Pics of the interior?
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No we sold it 20 years ago
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