Truck bed water tank?
Anyone use one? What size and make? Where to buy? My trailer has small fresh water capacity (22, plus 6 in HW tanks) and I am thinking of adding a 25 or 50 gal tank in the truck. (PS - 700 lb h...
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Grit dog wrote:ependydad wrote:rjxj wrote:
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I have the same fresh water bladder. Haven't used it yet, but it should work.
^This. But I use one of my ballast sacks from the boat. It's a "400 lb" bag so it carries about 50 gal which refills the tank on the camper completely.
Just like the bladder posted, folds up to about the size of a small tarp when empty. Use the ballast pump for the boat too.
You can find pump and bag combos for around $100 and they're very durable. Made out of heavy inflatable raft material.
I just dry camped for 2 weeks and used the Aquatank repeatedly. The biggest trick is to convince myself that I could keep adding water to it.
I do want to add shut off valves for the inlet and oulet. Slapping a hose on there got wet at times.
I used the built-in pump for my fifth wheel, antifreeze inlet, and outdoor shower to fill from the bladder. The biggest trick is to make sure the hose is full before connecting it. Other than that- it was just slow. Took a good 30+ minutes to empty the 40+ gallons I put into it.
I looked at the Harbor Freight 12v pump (and various others) and couldn't find any that are drinking water safe. I'm likely going to buy a real RV pump and use that.
