How-To Tuesday: Installing a Pressurized Running Water Tank
Mark this week’s How-To Tuesday article down to something I didn’t know was possible, at least not until I read the article about installing a pressurized running water tank on your JK.
This is one of those “who did it first and figured out how to make it work” type of things. Someone had to actually come up with this. Someone had to think: “What if I capped my bumper and filled it with water, and then pressurized it, making it a legit, pressurized, running-water tank?” Who comes up with this stuff?
Someone had to be the first. Someone had to be sitting there drinking a beer next to his JK, thinking: “If I capped this bumper, I wonder if it would hold water?” Then he committed to this idea, and started working through it. I wonder if he just went that far, and then down the road thought about pressurizing it? Then he thought: “I could wash my Jeep after mudding before going home, and my wife wouldn’t even know I went!” Was it one of those “hold my beer” kind of thoughts?
Then the next guy was like: “That’s awesome, I’m going to go all engineering up in here and take it to the next level.”
I’ve since learned that you can simply pull off the stock bumper and purchase a prefabbed tank that looks like a bumper. It may save you a lot of time compared to the detail in this week’s How-To article, but I’m not sure that you wouldn’t get the satisfaction of doing it all yourself.
I would really like to know if any one of you have actually made this DIY conversion. Are you using it for drinking water? I think that would be a poor decision, but what do I know? I looks like there may be many different mounting points and locations for various spigots and connections. Which set-up do you prefer? Is this a good idea or bad idea? Let us know!