Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 10, 2025 ...

Jerry,

I know this is late as the brakes are back together but may help others. 
With that amount of work you need to check the guide pin bushings for correct diameter and roundness.  If either are out of spec. they need to be replaced and reamed to proper dia.

Mike

After replacing the tires last month I was told the rear pads and  the rotors needed replacing. Slack pins were also in bad shape. The wear was probably due to the rotors sticking from lack of maintenance on the slide pins or the the wrong grease used. Coach has 91000 miles. 

Took the coach to Gulf Truck Parts and Repair in Saucier, Ms to get the work done.  They do all kinds of chassis repair work on commercial trucks and buses and can handle big rvs also.  They did all the labor and let me supply all the parts.  Find it Parts had everything with free shipping except for the meritor grease which I already had.

Total Parts came to $874 which included one rotor ($271), one shoe and lining replacement kit  (4 pads $286), two slide pin kits ($215) and two helper spring kits ($29).

Shop time came to $708 which was 6 hours for R&R the right rear rotor, brake pads slide pins, and helper springs. They also lubed the chassis front to back, U-joint, and slack adjusters.  I had them purge the old grease from the calipers and replace it with the Meritor clay based grease.  They replaced the wheel seal with a Stemco and also checked the rear end oil level.

They young guys at the shop were very courteous and easy to work with.  They were fair and honest about the cost of the work and saved me $$ from having to replace the driver side rear rotor. Front brakes were just fine.

Cody who was born in 1996 was eager to learn about Meritor disk brakes on my 1993 U-300!  I now have have full braking capacity along with the two stage Jake and can really feel the difference.

Jerry