Poly Water Tank in a Space Cab

Peter,

I cannot comment about the water tank in the cab as I don't have one,

But we have a number of the 5L and a couple of 10L water containers, not too sure if they are willow or not but they have red screw cap lids and come from BCF. I had them in the camper, so cannot tell you about the sloshing noises but they made it alot easier to handle and pack. I put marine carpet squares in between them all to stop rubbing, and a big piece over the top so I could pack other stuff on top of the containers. They weren't tied in, but I packed our gear around them so they didn't move. My wife and daughter can carry them with ease, not like the 20L ones we also have.

Greg

I used to store 20l jerry cans of water and diesel in a steel cage behind the front seats on a Prado. Yep you could hear the water sloshing a bit, but it didn't bother me. Only sloshes when your vehicle is lurching around.

Big issue is to have the tank or jerry cans well secured and tied down to the floor. Don't want them to go flying in a prang.

I used to access water with a syphon hose that goes through the lid of the container (need a small breather too), with a 2-way tap on the end. The other advantage of jerries is that you don't lose all your water if it springs a leak and you can separate good water from dodgy water.

atlas tanks Checkout page 10 , internal moulded baffle .

Hey Peter,

I have a 80l water bladder behind the front seats and it does slosh a little bit but not enough to put me off

Hi Peter

We have a 50litre poly water tank in the back of the cruiser. The sloshing noise is noticeable when travelling slowly but once up to road travelling speed we can't really hear it over the normal road and engine sounds. However, until a couple of days ago we've been completely baffled by an intermittent noise that sounded like it was coming from a rear wheel or somewhere in the vicinity of the the rear cargo area, but it only occurred when turning to the right. Finally tracked it down and it turned out to be the air coming out of the non-return valve on top of the tank. The water tank was nearly full at the time and the noise was caused by the water sloshing across and forcing the air out of the valve. Big relief when we figured out what it was....lol.