Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 13, 2025 ...

Not sure what you are looking for. Photo three was taken before they welded the 2" angle iron. The angle iron was welded to the frame after they jacked the tank back into position. Right now I am relying on the angle iron to support the thing. There were bolts in there that were sheared off, and the metal was quite deteriorated, rusted out actually.

Sorry to see that kind of damage.  From what I see you have had the bulkhead failure that Brett has warned us can happen.  I had looked at my bulkheads, and knew I was missing some bolts, and had Wayne at FOT look and advise me.  He suggested rear bulkhead service, estimated repair time 8-10 hours labor plus parts.  For about 8 hours and parts, the job was as estimated.

Wayne supported the bay floors with two long loose bolts, removed the old bolts, or cut them, opened up the joints, cleaned, and de-rusted the joints, and then reassembled the joint.  He drilled and installed 16 Hucks bolts, new weather strip, and undercoating.  I had looked at doing it myself, and had some of the parts rounded up.  I had read about how easy it was to do, talked to Don Hay about the fun of doing his.  He suggested he would let FOT do his next time for the bid I had received.

I would suggest you might want to head back to Nacogdoches for a more complete repair.  You coach is too nice to not get repaired correctly.  But wait, I just read that you are in Maine, not in TX, or at your SKP place on the map in NM.

Either you need to follow Brett's suggested repair, or get it done, and check the rear bulkhead as well.  Wayne started early AM, handed back the coach about 3, and then needed a couple of hours the next AM for pulling the outer rear wheels to finish the job installing the last Hucks bolts.

Yes, as they have the 60,000# puller tool.  Wayne showed me the hucks bolt, that looked like a pop rivet.  He explained how he would do the repair, and that he had schedule to borrow the puller from Production.  He drove the coach up on a 4 piece stack of 2x10's, to jack up the rear to work on the coach without floor jacks.  He did all the drilling and then the pulling he could with the duals in place.  The next time he drove the coach up on the inner duals only to remove the outer duals to finish the pulling part of the job.

I had sourced another brand of bolts from Fastenal, and had them and the bits, was looking for the plugs.  I had not thought to use a couple of long bolts to keep the floor up and aligned while cleaning and sealing the open joints.  Wayne used the long bolts to draw the parts back together, and used two plugs in the bay floor.  Would have figured that out seeing the bay floor sagging I would have hoped.  Hated to spend the money, but so glad it is done.