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July 4 and 5, 2020 - The walls and ceiling are out! It tooks us two days and a lot of sweat and elbow grease. We used a crowbar and a mallet to pry out the sheet metal and managed to pop out the majority of the bajillion and a half rivets. On a few very stubborn rivets and a few infuriatingly placed rivets, we had to use an angle grinder to get them out. We also had to remove the rear AC unit, which was heald up by way fewer bolts than I thought necessary to securely hold such a large appliance in place.
This was a rough weekend of work because right behind the sheet metal was the original fiberglass insulation. To protect ourselves from the itchy lung-destroying fluff, we were wearing long pants, long sleeve shirts, gloves, goggles, masks, and ear protection. Perhaps we should have done this part in the middle of the night when it's not 100° F.
While removing rivets and trying to pop out a particularly stubborn panel of sheet metal right under a rear window, Elad put too much pressure on the crowbar. This caused the sheet metal to buckle and crack our window. Add that to the ever growing list of things we need to do.
After removing most of the sheet metal panels from the walls and the ceiling, we tore out the old fiberglass insulation and bagged it all up. We were so excited to get all of this material out of the bus, only to realize we had to hoist it all back inside the bus to drive it all to the dump. After tossing out several hundred pounds of sheet metal, insualtion, plywood, rubber, and random trash, Brienne got a super thorough powerwashing to get rid of any remaining fiberglass insulation, dirt, and loose hardware
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