After 4 plus weeks of trying to work out the details of my water pump position, I finally worked out not to put it well planning down in the lower panels but as you see in the coming photos and behind the second panel the water will be coming from the tank into the bodywork up to the pump from the pump directly to the water outlet on the driver side and then there’s a T junction taking this down to go through the bodywork to the opposite side to its water outlet.
I use some leftover stainless steel from a previous project cut it down and shaped it to suit the position I’ve gone with stainless steel because of its thickness allowing it to go behind the panel and be able to sit out of sight out of mind once installed.
Today to finished off the bracket I required an extra bend along the top edge to stiffen up the whole bracket fitted the pump and temporarily to it and have now installed in the back of the truck so it’s time to work out the length of hoses and start connecting up the plumbing before finishing off the fitting of the bracket.
In the above photo you may be able to see the bend to stiffen up the bracket suitable to mount the water pump..
Now in position (below) ready for hoses to be installed, note that I have not installed the second cover as it’s in the way at the moment you can see the front panel installed.
Also above you can see the driver side hatch pipework to the right of the photo/the black box with stainless fittings coming through it.
The rear/right and side stainless steel fittings is for the freshwater outlet.
The centre large stainless steel fitting is for the grey water inlet down to my grey water tank underneath.
And the left-hand stainless steel fitting is the breather for the grey water tank going underneath the vehicle.
Other work while working out this bracket water pump position is been to make up a bracket for a phone mount at the front which will update with photos in incoming post.
Also starting to do wiring to the dash from the secondary battery for devices like the CB (UHF) radio, powerful for my GPS device, and also power for a USB ports to power my phone coming from the secondary battery. These are all gonna be able to be used at all times with the ignition on or off.
Why?
Well, in the past of done a few trips with other four-wheel drivers we have stopped for someone to catch up and we’re switched off the vehicles listening to the birds singing in the forest etc. I need to have the vehicle waiting for turn up saying why won’t anyone answer me on the CB?
Of course the reason is with ignition switched off. Most of the CB’s were switched off, plus a couple of people have suggested it’s quite handy having a CB radio on while at some campsites. I would prefer to switch it off then but the option is being able to switching on without turning on the ignition with the likelihood of possibly flattening or lowering the battery voltage of the main starting battery..
Yes, I might be overthinking it, but once it’s installed, it’s full proof so.