Thursday, Jul 14, 2005 at 17:21
That's VERY similar to the system I had in the surf. I updated it as the Jerry's were giving me the bleeps in the end. A small mod turned that above system into a fully permanant tank system.
I bought a 52L plastic caravan tank for $79 from the 12v
shop. If fit perfectly between the wheel arches. I then made a storage box around the tank that was shaped to fit against the back seats (on an angle). I then covered it in carpet and you'd never know it's there, with the added advantage of having somewhere safe to store all your recovery gear/tools etc that is accessable from within the cab (just fold the back seats forward) and it works as a kind of cargo barrier as
well as giving you a flat side at the back stack all your tubs and gear up against nice and flush.
It resolves several problems:
1) Obviosuly somewhere to put water and revovery gear.
2) Saftey, as a sort of cargo barrier
3) I don't have that wasted space behind the back seats anymore that I could never use.
4) Having a tailgate I could never reach all the way forward into the cargo area as when the tailgate was down I would have needed Go-Go-Gadget arms, now I can reach all the way to the box no probs and everything else is accessed via the front by folding the seats down.
The other problem with the Jerrys is that they let light in so if you don't empty them and dry them out when not in use they will grow all sorts of yummy flavours in them. The caravan tank in ours is black plus it's all under the storage box (inuslating it tempeture wise too).
If you are interest I can take some photo's for you. I also found a better place to put the pump was behind the pannels in the back and one of those "Quick Clamp" wood working clamps with a couple of cable ties makes a fantastic way to mount the tap to virtually anyway when your at
camp.
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