Foretravel Owners' Forum For owners and Fans of Foretravel Motorcoaches September 11, 2025 ...

We (the forum) don't (doesn't) have a U270 Parts Manual in the Files section, so we'd need someone with a copy (or who's got that model coach and had the pump replaced) to advise as to the part number.

If someone has such a Parts Manual in PDF form, please try to upload it.  If it's too large, PM me and we'll figure out how to get it into the forum Files.

I think you're going to get a private message from IRv2 and a deleted post. They don't take to kindly to someone posting links away from their site to another forum.

Yes, better to copy and paste what was posted here with a little modification to describe what the pump drives and how it is driven (to distinguish it from the PTO-driven pumps).

And, wonder if there are PTO-driven pumps that meet the same/close to the same specs and are still in production?

Yes, better to copy and paste what was posted here with a little modification to describe what the pump drives and how it is driven (to distinguish it from the PTO-driven pumps).

And, wonder if there are PTO-driven pumps that meet the same/close to the same specs and are still in production?

Here is pictures of the pump on a 1999 U270

I have just sent a commitment email request to Mr Morris fingers cross this will help them make a decision fast . Rick

Mike,
Thank you for all the work and follow-up you did on this pump situation.  I'm sure it was a real pain gathering all this information while at the same time getting your wife back to work and your coach back on the road.

I just finished sending am email to Mr. Morris at the address you provided.

I urge everyone on this site to communicate to Mr. Morris your financial commitment for a pump purchase.  I realize it could be a chunk of money just sitting on your spare parts shelf that you may never use, but just imagine being stuck somewhere and the pump being unavailable.

While I realize making a commitment does not guarantee pumps or rebuild parts/kits being made, if enough demand is there to make it financially viable, the company will respond.  They are there to make money.

Maybe as a group, we can make this happen!

Idea,take your old shaft that is in 2 pieces,hope you saved it,if this is the main part that breaks,take it to a machine shop and see
what they would charge to make 10 or twenty shafts and split the cost among us,seals and gaskets can be made and found.

Idea,take your old shaft that is in 2 pieces,hope you saved it,if this is the main part that breaks,take it to a machine shop and see
what they would charge to make 10 or twenty shafts and split the cost among us,seals and gaskets can be made and found.

Hydraulic pumps that I have taken apart could be driven cw or ccw-- they were gears that were meshed together so if you changed direction with drive you changed sides with supply line
Chris

The more I Think about this problem and what causes the shaft to snap it brings me back to my steering box . My steering box started to leak from the end cap so I ordered a seal kit when I removed the end cap to replace the seal just the end cap seal there were small bits of a very hard substance all in very small pieces around the bearing if you put all the pieces together it would have made a circle someone said at the time it was glue that they use to keep the seal or bearings in place when they assemble the steering box new at the factory and that it deteriorated and braking apart I figured that's  why the seal is leaking because of this substance. I left on a trip to Florida and on my way down the Pittman seal started to leak when I got to Florida I had to have the box replaced I brought it to Paul Yasbeck in Leesburg Florida and he suggested I service the hydraulic reservoir so I did and I ask him to replace all the belts and tensioner's because the hydraulic pump tensioner was jumping . About a year after back home in Canada I started the coach up one day and a loud bang noise was coming from the engine I thought there was a connecting rod come through the block that how loud it was I shut it down  I open the engine door all look good so I started it back up and ran to back and the tensioner was slapping back and Forth against the hydraulic pump pulley very fast and hard I shut it down went back to the tensioner it look OK put a strong arm on it and move it back and forth the tensioner felt good and had a good strong tension it look and felt fine started it up and everything was running perfect the tensioner was as steady as new no jumping at all I didn't take a chance I replace the tensioner now I m thinking that that hard substance from the steering box was passed  through the hydraulic system and was jamming the pump Could it be this substance jammed the pump and shear the pump shaft maybe the hydraulic tank should be serviced to see if anything is present. I know the filter is suppose to catch any dirt .but something caused that shaft to break

First, why bother with a clone when QCC the manufacturer is willing to possibly still carry them and ALL of the parts for this

The more I Think about this problem and what causes the shaft to snap it brings me back to my steering box . My steering box  I m thinking that that hard substance from the steering box was passed  through the hydraulic system and was jamming the pump Could it be this substance jammed the pump and shear the pump shaft maybe the hydraulic tank should be serviced to see if anything is present. I know the filter is suppose to catch any dirt .but something caused that shaft to break

If so, that would suggest that somehow the debris bypassed or got through the filters in the reservoir???

Mike, I appreciate all the effort you have put into this and hopefully QCC will start making them again.  So far QCC hasn't agreed to make anything, so getting some shafts made by a machine shop seems like a good alternative if QCC says no.  I sent my nephew the blueprint and he will take a look. They can do it, just depends on quantity to get a bid.

I'll put something on facebook Foretravel page,many of them don't go here.

Dave,

You are correct, at this moment QCC has not committed to anything. I have been on the phone with simone morris at least a dozen times in the past week. I know and have documentation on every facet of the 41188 as well as know a small bit about the others on the list. Simone was incredibly helpful and as helping me came to realize that QCC should maybe continue to source the parts that caused these to no longer being manyfactured. She called a meeting last week and it was agreed by those present that continued sourcing was good for them as well as the consuming industry. However. The head of finance who was in vacation needed to also approve and that would not happen until this week or next.  That does not mean the 41188 or the 41078 would go back into production. But it did mean all the parts for the 41078 (u320) would be in house to build some.  The 41188 still out of shafts would need a reasonable demand fir them to also order the shafts. I can't speak for the others on the list.  But i do know that the two i mention directly affect most if not all of the 295/320 models. Just noticed yours is a 270 and your pics showed yours to also have the 41188. So now from a foretravel view we know 3 models are affected by just the 41188.

Other than informing the masses of this situation, my hopes were to get enough people to step up and show that demand so that QCC would do what they said they might if the demand is there.