Hello fellow vanners, after years of juggling water tank level anxiety I have decided to install a gauge and sensor in my 2009 Swift Challenger. My caravan had underfloor tanks fitted by the previous owner, these are clamped up against the floor with no access unless I lower them - with associated risk to the inlet and outlet piping.
I can access the top of the tank through the floor in one of the lockers, I propose to use a hole saw to cut through the floor (ply/foam sandwich) and then through the Polyethylene plastic tank. The sensor fitting would then be screwed to the top of the tank and connected to the gauge which would be installed alongside the existing switch panel above the door.
My question(s), have any members already done this, do you have any clever suggestions esp re preventing swarf getting into the tank and then getting any that does get there out. The existing piping to the tank appears to be glued in so unscrewing is not an option to drain the tank and it does not appear that there are filters in the pump line.
Thanks so much for reading and any feedback.
Regards Mike (Auckland New Zealand)
I can access the top of the tank through the floor in one of the lockers, I propose to use a hole saw to cut through the floor (ply/foam sandwich) and then through the Polyethylene plastic tank. The sensor fitting would then be screwed to the top of the tank and connected to the gauge which would be installed alongside the existing switch panel above the door.
My question(s), have any members already done this, do you have any clever suggestions esp re preventing swarf getting into the tank and then getting any that does get there out. The existing piping to the tank appears to be glued in so unscrewing is not an option to drain the tank and it does not appear that there are filters in the pump line.
Thanks so much for reading and any feedback.
Regards Mike (Auckland New Zealand)
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