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

Thanks for the replies but not helping much.  Here's a few pix to help out a bit.  ZipDee specifies to mount the arm bracket about 5" above the drip rail, and the arms are pre-bent to make that happen.  In the front I'm most likely going to have to cut the cap strip and might have to mount a backing plate inside?  Coach hasn't gotten pre-snow-bird bath and as my park doesn't allow washing.

Here are pictures of the high mounting position above the drip rail on a 2000' U270. These are pictures of Ted & Karen's coach that I took for my own reference. Ted added the NX conversion to his coach. I think he had it done by ZipDee, but not sure.
Don

From the picture of the locks the NX is only about 2" higher than original on theirs. My original post about wind bothering the awning seems to not be an issue.

I have done some research on the issue of the two different mounting locations of where the awning roller meets the coach. What I have found is that all of the coaches with ZipDee manual awnings from model year 99' and down are mounted to the drip rail molding. From 2000 and later, there is a strip of molding that has the same 'c' channel groove as the drip rails mounted about 5" above on the radius.

Don,
Do you know why the awning mounting location was raised? I think I'm happy with ours mounted to the drip rail and I'm not aware of any disadvantages of the lower mounting location (unless one isn't careful not to have the awning positioned such that the door brushes against it) and so I'm looking for additional input.

I have done some research on the issue of the two different mounting locations of where the awning roller meets the coach. What I have found is that all of the coaches with ZipDee manual awnings from model year 99' and down are mounted to the drip rail molding. From 2000 and later, there is a strip of molding that has the same 'c' channel groove as the drip rails mounted about 5" above on the radius. Under the fiberglass is an extruded aluminum profile that forms the crown radius of the roof along each side. Attached is a drawing of the profile with dimensions of the extruded aluminum channel that forms the structural attachment of the side walls to the roof. If you have looked inside the cabinets up front with the cosmetic trim removed, you can see how far forward the channel extends (up to the end cap seams). This aluminum extrusion is what the mounting channel strip attaches to. As I write this, I have a 22' piece of the aluminum mounting channel strip duct taped (with the miracle 3M no residue duct tape) to our roof. It has been there since we were at Xtreme earlier this year. I plan on converting our awning to this higher mounting position which will require some additional hardware from ZipDee, but that hardware will be a bit easier to get shipped than the 22' awning rail.
Don