On 23IKSS - best way to add FW when dry camping?

[drhroo]

We are thinking about our first electric-only trip and will be camped for five nights. Just my wife and I. We'll fill up the FW tank when we enter the campground. We'll buy drinking and cooking water and probably only do one shower each. But if we need to add a few gallons to the FW tank, what is the best way to do that? If gravity, we'll need to fin a funnel that works? But I thought I read somewhere that you can use the pump to pull in the water. Is there an easy way to do that on a 23IKSS (2016)?

[deartruc]

Sounds silly but...you could use the anitfreeze inlet and the outside shower to fill the fw tank.

[deartruc]

Where we boondock, they have potable water faucets spread out throughout the cg. So, we bring 100 to 200 ft of hose to fill the tank.

[uhduh camping]

Not really sure if you can. I'm not sure about that. I have seen what you are referring to. I been thinking about that myself. Anyways make sure you fill the water heater and bleed air out of lines while you are filling FW tank. Every bit helps.

[drhroo]

Originally Posted by deartruc

Sounds silly but...you could use the anitfreeze inlet and the outside shower to fill the fw tank.

So how do we do that? I think I understand how to use the AF inlet. But why the outside shower?

[deartruc]

Where the pump is, flip the valve over to pull from the AF inlet outside. Put a hose from the inlet into the fw jug you plan to use. Turn on the pump. Take your outside shower head off and put that hose into your fw tank fill. Then turn on the outside faucet and it will draw from the jug. I never did the jug draw. But have used the method to put a few gallons for traveling (when I was too lazy to disconnect the fw hose from the camper.

[bikendan]

We've been dry campers for 25 years now, 9 years of that with our Roo.
We carry a 6 gallon water jug to shuttle water. It has a spout that fits perfectly in the FW tank fill.
We also travel with a full tank of water.

[elundquist]

You should be able to hook a hose to a can then hook it to the antifreeze port below water intake. But I am not sure this will fill the tank without a fill bypass in the system. I plumbed a cold water line, with inline ball valve, into the top of my water tank, so I could fill the tank when hooked to city water. Very helpful in flushing/ cleaning the tank and quicker to fill the tank. I don't care for the gravity fill, but it is need when all you have is a remote hand pumped well.


Erik Lundquist
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[drhroo]

Originally Posted by deartruc

Where the pump is, flip the valve over to pull from the AF inlet outside. Put a hose from the inlet into the fw jug you plan to use. Turn on the pump. Take your outside shower head off and put that hose into your fw tank fill. Then turn on the outside faucet and it will draw from the jug. I never did the jug draw. But have used the method to put a few gallons for traveling (when I was too lazy to disconnect the fw hose from the camper.

I'll give that a look. I need to learn where the pump is and where I flip the valve. I think it is behind that divider panel in the storage compartment that opens on the rear of the trailer.

We also have a funny and bucket to do a gravity feed but the "nozzle" on the funnel is the same size as the FW opening so we need to get a funnel with a smaller end.

200' of hose? Now that is funny. But I can see how it would work. We only have 50.

[deartruc]

You may just want to leave the hose in the jug an skip adding to the fw tank. Basically, use the jug as your fw tank.

[deartruc]

Maybe scratch that. If the jug runs dry you'll wear out the pump trying to pull water. Unless you only flip the pump on to draw water as needed and then flip it off.

[Ken K.]

LOL Use a 2 dollar funnel and a 5 dollar water jug and stop smoking the gears in your brain. SMH at some of the suggestions. Simpler is better.

[elundquist]

I have the bypass and can use the pump to draw water from a container to fill the fresh water tank, but it takes forever to fill the tank.





I bought a Reliance 5 gal water can. Instead of screwing the tap/ valve I bought a 1" ball valve and barbed fitting to install the hose. Fill this up, close the valve, raise the can, install the hose into the gravity fill, open the cans air bleed, then open the ball valve.

Shot gun water fill! The 5 gallons empties in about one minute! The only hard part is lifting 5gal of water to the height of the gravity fill.


Erik Lundquist
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[drhroo]

$2 funnel didn't fit in the hole.

But I like Erik's idea. We have one of those plastic spouts that you can insert in the FW inlet. The other end is designed to be screwed into/onto a hose. I need to find a water jug to which I can attach it.

[elundquist]

Drhroo,

I got my can at the Glenwood Army surplus, but REI Denver had them as well.

I see you purchase from Nolands I have been there several times to shop the Roos. I didn't care for the sales staff myself. Their parts department has been helpful.

Did you ever go to the Roo dealer in Evans?


Erik Lundquist
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[caper]

You could use a water pump that is operated by a drill. The cost of the pump is in the $10 range.

[rsdata]

I saw one of these at Walmart the other day or you can get at amazon
Amazon.com: Camco 40003 Water Tank Filler with Shutoff Valve: Automotive

[hankpac]

We boondock for 30 days straight each year during Archery Elk season.
We refill our 6 gallon cans (3 of them) at a local spring, and haul it back to the trailer. Simply fill from the spout into the tank. Weighs 48 lbs, so not that heavy to lift.
As an alternate, we also sometimes use a 5 gallon bucket to fill a large ice chest, and using a bilge pump, with clear plastic lines, alligator clipped to the truck battery, we can pump the entire load (45 gallons) from the back of the truck, directly into the tank via the gravity filler. Since we don't always have an empty ice chest we don't use that method regularly.
Since we are in a large gravel pit, or deep in the forest, we can dump our grey water using a 50 or 100 ft hose.

[palmetto rogue]

x2 on deartruc. It is too easy to use the antifreeze in and trailer pump and only takes about a minute or two to pump 5 gals in from any water container

[Hoffwmn]

Be sure you don't put more water in your FW tank than the combined capacities of your GW and BW.
Also, we just cut a plastic water bottle to form a funnel an screwed the hot water heater flush tool to it to pour in a jug of water.