Water tanks

Installed fittings on the 3 water tanks (70 liters each).

The tanks will be on top of insulation.

Fitting the water heater

To have hot water, I fitted a "heater" which will warm the water either from the truck's engine or from AC power (if I'm hooked up to the grid).

It's positionned at the back of the truck, inside the cabin.

Glue and pop rivets to fasten support on side wall

Preliminary work: Water and Electricity

1/ Water

 Preliminary work included getting the wash bassin area organised + drill a hole for the water drain.

 

 

 

Next task was to prepare a double board (2 x 7mm) that will be a separating wall 

between future shower and living areas

 Hum.. my motorcycle is quite handy as a "weight" on top of the 2 panels beeing glued!

Notice the bottle jack under the middle of motorcycle

 to put weight on the middle part of panels

Next job is to glue this double pannel to the cabin

 

Next step was to prepare water and electrical chanels 

Glue and screw down anchor points for the 3 water tanks

 

Each tank will be fastened-down to the floor by 2 straps 

70 liters x 3, total capacity = 210 liters

2/ Electricity - Water - Heating

On the left hand side, under a cupboard there is a space where I wanted to fit:

- 2 Optima batteries (that will power all my cabin accessories)

- 1 Moveable, sealed box that will house my electric water pump

- 1 Heat exchanger that will heat the cabin (it will be plumbed into the engine cooling system)

So I made one subframe to house all these componants. If needed for maintenance, that subframe can be removed from its resting position.

Checking that all components will fit in allocated space

Building first part: housing for removable plastic drawer which will hold water pump 

(the grey box on top is "weight", while glue is setting).

All done: heat exchanger with fan is positionned on top of drawer

Making sure that all will fit!

Drilled many holes through floor of cabin: water pipe and electrical cables to go under floor

Looking good

Detail of rear set-up (subframe can slide out).

All done, perfect! 

NB - The batteries' clamps are not yet made.