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

Rear or FRONT left (our driver's side)??

It's the front driver side wheel arch at the rear, if you look at the photo there are 2 pipes it is drip drip drip, the generator is directly behind the arch

What Brett is asking is it Australian drivers side or our drivers side.

With the mention of settee and water pump, the pipes are in the driver's side (our driver's side) just behind the front wheel.

It will probably take someone with the same vintage coach to answer, as I know our 1993 U240 had no drains there-- our fill was in the wet bay and overflow up in the nose.

The overflow on your motorhome is out the firewall, (our) passenger side. This looks like drainage pipes to drain your tank and lines. You may have a bad valve.

Kevin, nitehawk nailed it, under the couch are the drain taps. I take it that is still doesn't freeze down in Cornwall ? Only reason I know where they are is because I have to blow all my lines out for winter, -20 centigrade and those are the taps.

Yeah I have noticed these two taps exactly where you and norm said they are, I understand that now like you said one for hot one for cold, but the only thing I can't understand Is, I've never touched them and whenever ive emptied the main tank I've always used the drain tap which is just to the right of driver seat underneath a lift up flap, there I also have 2 taps, the one on the left I turn counter clockwise when I need to fill the tank and then to the right of this tap the other one has a label on it saying drain which I turn counter clockwise and the water seems to come out somewhere directly below that cause I've seen it coming out, I remember ages ago I noticed these two taps and I thought they were there if ever I needed to change the water pump, then I could shut off the water flow on either side of pump, remove and replace it without the need to drain the system, later on when I get up, il take a photo of my system, both sets of taps, and upload them to you, its 0418 hrs at the moment not sure how many hrs you are behind me, think it's 6 or 7hrs, oh yeah and the last time we had a big freeze down here in Cornwall was 2010 and the one before that was in the 1990s, even when they had what they called the beast from the east about 3 years ago here we had about 2 inches of snow and then it rained a day later woke up next day and all the white had gone again, anyway catch ya tomorrow, thanks for yours and anyone elses help on this, cheers man

OK, here goes.
In the compartment between the front seats are two valves. The left valve should only be turned on to fill the fresh water tank, then SHUT OFF. If you leave it open the fresh water tank will continue to fill then overflow if your supply hose is still supplying water to the coach. Also, if the supply hose is disconnected  and the valve is left open your 12V onboard pump will keep pumping/trying to build line pressure, not knowing that you have left an open line to the fresh water tank.
The right valve is only opened to drain the fresh water tank buried just forward of the little compartment. The drain hose is almost directly below this valve.
Label these valves: Left valve TANK FILL. Right valve: TANK DRAIN.
On the water heater (or boiler as you call it) the top right valve IS a pressure relief valve. Down to your left, tucked behind the gas supply line is the heater drain fitting, should be a white nylon plug. If you have a petcock instead you run the risk of shorting the coil on the gas control unit. A new one cost me $87 plus shipping (US) so yours will probably be a lot more.
Might I suggest you get a 1/2" x 3" pipe nipple and an inline coupler and install them. I used white Teflon tape and I ground the outside diameter of the coupler so I wouldn't have to bend the two bayonet fittings down very far to clear the coupler. You can then reuse your nylon plug and this new arrangement will just clear the inside of the louvered compartment cover/door.
Now, your two mystery hoses. I extended the hoses on our coach down below the compartment bottom to prevent what I see in your picture. RUST!! I hate rust even tho we live in the rust capitol of the US. I also labeled the system drain valves under the couch with tags reading: HOT WATER DRAIN and COLD WATER DRAIN.

One last thing (I forgot). When you open the two system drains under the couch and the water "boiler" drain, open all the sink and tub faucets, along with holding the royal commode lever so the water drains.
Doing this lets air into the lines and the water out faster.
DON'T FORGET to close all these faucets & valves before hooking up a water hose to pressurize the system!!
Those shutoff faucets with the fretwork knobs use round faucet washers that deteriorate with age and use. Then they leak. Sound familiar?
The tank fill faucet up front in our coach leaked so bad under pressure that the tank would overflow and water would pour out. I replaced the shutoff faucet style with a simple ball style gate valve about six years ago. No leaks since.