Elite Veteran
  
Location: Victoria, BC. Canada | I wanted to make a quick - and I hope useful - reference to the Group 2 - 'Body' section in the Service Manual (It's there online, too, thanks Kjetil!) for those who are taking a refit to the 'next level', or, those who, like many of us, are concerned about the cabin-frame to chassis interface.
This section includes several useful service bulletins outlining FMC's warranty/recall posture back in the day and where to focus your attention for inspection & repair if needed.
Some of the pics (photocopies) are not so great but there is however also a useful diagram of the coach cabin frame (Fig.3 pg-5 of 10) for those of you who would like to know where to step (on rafters) and not to step (in open areas) when walking around up there to minimize fiberglass flexing. I walked on FMC roof before that 'flexed' so much under foot I thought I might go through it.
I know a PO had 'huck-bolts' done on my coach by RVS back around 2000' but haven't confirmed what was done, or, if there needs to be more inspection. I suspect so as #846 has the typical 'mid-drift-bulge' just ahead of the right-side rear wheel evident in the slight bulging of the belly band. It's not as bad as some I've seen and the left side still looks good.
Hope this helps someone, somewhere, someday... somehow.
Terry
#846
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BODY STRUCTURE: GROUP #2 - SERVICE MANUAL
