Potable Water

Does your RV have a antifreeze inlet on it. If so you can use the water pump in the RV to draw in the water from your container. I carry two of these. They fold up nice for storage.

OP is gone.

Turkey fryer oil pump. Find on eBay, uses "D" cells, empties a 7 gal blue jug in aboot 4-5 mins. May have to put jug on chair or folding table or lengthen hose to reach your water inlet?? Usually cost about $8-$12.

This is my setup, it's an Attwood livewell aerator pump. I added a pvc extension to it so it would reach the bottom of the jug. I use my flojet macerator switch to trigger it on/off but that's overkill. You would have to lay the jug on its side until the pump primes itself, but once going you can stand it right-side up.

SCVJeff wrote:
I'll let 2OLDMAN find this in the archives since he can do it in his sleep. But there has been reference made about drawing water out of a POTABLE carrier through the RV anti-freeze suck tube, and re-entering it to the RV tank through a jumper on the outside shower faucet. Sounds confusing but it works great if you have the necessary facilities.

Brilliant!

Are the water pumps that use an electric drill for power even worth considering? That might be an answer, although I do like the idea of just using another Sureflo pump because it can replace the main pump if it breaks.

What about using a blue porta-tote (Normally used for emptying black and gray water--new or thoroughly sanitized, of course)and a pump? Pull by hand or toad, they come in various sizes.

truckcamperonmymind wrote:
SCVJeff wrote:

I'll let 2OLDMAN find this in the archives since he can do it in his sleep. But there has been reference made about drawing water out of a POTABLE carrier through the RV anti-freeze suck tube, and re-entering it to the RV tank through a jumper on the outside shower faucet. Sounds confusing but it works great if you have the necessary facilities.


Brilliant!

Here's another forum discussion thread touching on that very same method:

http://forums.trailerlife.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/26921170/srt/pa/pging/1/page/1.cfm

It would especially work for us because our outside shower hose is just inside the outside storage cabinet right by the fresh water filling port. This was probably brilliant design on Winnebago's part ... but the problem is they didn't tell me about filling our FW tank this way using it's built-in winterizing system anywhere in their literature that came with our motorhome. (Winnebago even put a remote water pump ON/OFF switch right next to the outside shower hose valves.)

Do you have a Antifreeze inlet tube?

If so, hook up your water to that, open the antifreeze inlet valve, turn the RV water pump switch to on, turn your hose water inlet valve to fill/city and the pump will draw the water into your RV. No need to waste money and storage for an extra pump if you have the antifreeze option.