Sunday, Apr 19, 2009 at 17:54
You do not mention whether you have a single axle or dual. If its a single legally you can only load your van with 280Kg of water/gas/gear and food, most dual can go 400Kg or more. So with another tank full of water thats 60Kg or 44Kg of food/gear that you cannot carry, if you are on the limit.
As mentioned above it depends on the setup of your van and how you load it eg a front kitchen probably has more weight on the towbar than a van with a double bed in front. If the van wheels are
well to the back the towbar could also be heavily loaded so 2nd
water tank should be behind the axles.
We have 3 tanks in our van 2 are linked together in front of the axles and one at the rear. I can fill the linked units together or just the one closest to the axle and have the controls to isolate them as
well. The linked units have one gauge and the rear a separate gauge as
well.
If you put in a separate tank is probably easier to use the existing fill inlet and underneath the van just have valves to direct the water to either tank.
Would definitely use a stone shield as the tank you install will probably hang down lower than the tank that came with the van, your van chassis was probably made to fit the tank.
we use our third tank for
drinking water and connect to a
hand pump, so do not annoy our neighbours if we pump out a glass of water at night. But of course with valving you could plum your second tank into the vans water system.
You could also consider carry 3x 20Lt containers of water in your tug, to get over the install.
Peter
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