Attn Pop-up TC overlanders: gray water reinforced saddlebag?
Have any of you pop-up TC overlanders ever used a reinforced polyester (or, Hypalon genre) gray water saddlebag between camper tub and truck bed?
We have a large 10 gallon portable RV gray water tank, however it needs to be installed outside under the truck, and hose run to it. This isn't convenient when we are dead-heading it cross-country at gas fill-up stations and rest areas. So, I came up with a theoretical concept:
-buy a 4+ ply reinforced polyester or rubber fold-up sun-shower bag, with strong 4 corner stanchions;
-mount the "sun-shower" to the fore section of our Outfitter camper's tub (where we have lots of thickness for the bag to "inflate" with gray water), with high-density closed cell poly-foam block Ducktaped under it, just fore of our wheel-well, as a pedestal;
-attach RV hose to gray water outlet of camper (located directly above where bag will be located), attach other end of short hose to sun-shower bag;
-attach 8 feet of clear vinyl tube to sun-shower outlet (secured by tie-wrap), and run to the rear of camper/truck bed, and attach a barbed plastic drain-cock thereto (when we are at a real dump site, we can unfurl the vinyl tube, and empty the ~6 gallons of gray water).
The above sounds complicated, but I would estimate a 20 minute install total time. This is a possible contender 4-ply gray water bag: here-->
The above would allow us a fast stop at a rest area, where we could use our water pump/sink to wash up, cook, etc, without having to deploy the big 10 gallon (long install) polytank we have in the middle of a public parking lot.
Anyone done this ? Can anyone envision any theoretical down-side to this plan ?
We have a large 10 gallon portable RV gray water tank, however it needs to be installed outside under the truck, and hose run to it. This isn't convenient when we are dead-heading it cross-country at gas fill-up stations and rest areas. So, I came up with a theoretical concept:
-buy a 4+ ply reinforced polyester or rubber fold-up sun-shower bag, with strong 4 corner stanchions;
-mount the "sun-shower" to the fore section of our Outfitter camper's tub (where we have lots of thickness for the bag to "inflate" with gray water), with high-density closed cell poly-foam block Ducktaped under it, just fore of our wheel-well, as a pedestal;
-attach RV hose to gray water outlet of camper (located directly above where bag will be located), attach other end of short hose to sun-shower bag;
-attach 8 feet of clear vinyl tube to sun-shower outlet (secured by tie-wrap), and run to the rear of camper/truck bed, and attach a barbed plastic drain-cock thereto (when we are at a real dump site, we can unfurl the vinyl tube, and empty the ~6 gallons of gray water).
The above sounds complicated, but I would estimate a 20 minute install total time. This is a possible contender 4-ply gray water bag: here-->
The above would allow us a fast stop at a rest area, where we could use our water pump/sink to wash up, cook, etc, without having to deploy the big 10 gallon (long install) polytank we have in the middle of a public parking lot.
Anyone done this ? Can anyone envision any theoretical down-side to this plan ?
