Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 15, 2025 ...

If you take your coach to a shop for an overhaul, the bill after everything is said and done, is going to be $25K-$30K. Do it yourself, you can save a huge amount but few have the facilities or experience necessary for a major DIY.

Bummed for you Bill. Hope the New Year is much better.

Pierce

In observation of the past few years of overhauls and major engine troubles I have come to a conclusion,these are "million mile"
engines only if the moon and stars are aligned and every maintenace procedure is done correctly,and then you have these oddball
number 6 cylinder problems,how do you prepare for that problem?

I agree. The engine could have been pulled, cylinder sleeved, rings and rod bearing, new gaskets.Valve job to the head.
I realize water went into the oil, but these engines are industrial grade, and can handle that. It isn't as though Bill drove it, and burnt it up. Simple cleaning of parts and inspection, put it back together.

It is sad, no one wants to fix stuff any more, just replace it. I did mine myself, it had basically the same issue, cost me $3500.00, plus I forced my buddy to take another $500.00 for helping me.
I realize Bill doesn't have the means to do it himself, but a shop should have been able to repair it as I said above for maybe 10K, and made good money.
I understand having a business means warranting your work, that is why they want to replace everything.But they are not warranting it anyway, so what would it matter.

I was told by a couple of people, these shops are just laying waiting for us. They know we have good credit or the money in savings to do whatever, and we are at their mercy once the coach is apart and in there shop.

Chris

If you take your coach to a shop for an overhaul, the bill after everything is said and done, is going to be $25K-$30K. Do it yourself, you can save a huge amount but few have the facilities or experience necessary for a major DIY.

Bummed for you Bill. Hope the New Year is much better.

Pierce

I agree. The engine could have been pulled, cylinder sleeved, rings and rod bearing, new gaskets.Valve job to the head.
I realize water went into the oil, but these engines are industrial grade, and can handle that. It isn't as though Bill drove it, and burnt it up. Simple cleaning of parts and inspection, put it back together.

It is sad, no one wants to fix stuff any more, just replace it. I did mine myself, it had basically the same issue, cost me $3500.00, plus I forced my buddy to take another $500.00 for helping me.
I realize Bill doesn't have the means to do it himself, but a shop should have been able to repair it as I said above for maybe 10K, and made good money.
I understand having a business means warranting your work, that is why they want to replace everything.But they are not warranting it anyway, so what would it matter.

I was told by a couple of people, these shops are just laying waiting for us. They know we have good credit or the money in savings to do whatever, and we are at their mercy once the coach is apart and in there shop.

Chris

I couldn't find my repair service list that had on my work computer.  I did find this search outfit that works well.  I tested it using the locations of the last three mechanical services and found the three small, competent shops that helped me out at reasonable prices.  This is work done on Class 8 trucks.  The big guy$ show up too but at least you have options on finding a shop that can do your work and maybe save yourself some CB.s  Try it out and maybe bookmark it.


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