I recently had a set of Drifta drawers with a stainless water tank installed in my Kakadu.
The standard install comes with gravity fed hose tap fitted so that it can be used out the rear passenger side door.
I decided to fit a tap into the little storage compartment which is next to the tool box in the rear door.
Here is the link to the tap that I used.
https://www.whitworths.com.au/main_i...AbsolutePage=1
The whole job cost about $60 and took me about 3 hours, athough it would have been a lot quicker if I had of removed the drawers.
The is a manual isolation tap on the pipe as it leaves the tank and the pump is installed under the edge of the tank behind the back seats.
Power comes from the previous installed ABR sidewinder kit that brings power from the Aux battery to the area where the jack is stored.
As the tap is switched on by means of a simple toggle switch I was a little worried it might get bumped on by something else that was stored in the compartment so I fitted an isolation switch in the top left corner of the compartment.
The tap and pump are built to use a 10mm ID hose. I used reinforced hose to avoid kinking when the door is closed. The hose fits through the rubber sleeve that carries the cables to the rear door. Its a little snug but spray it with Inox and it goes through ok.
If anything the water comes out of the tap a little fast, so it might help to step the hose down to a smaller diameter to reduce the flow, which would also make it easier to pass through as well. There is only 2 speeds, flat out or off, so I may look at installing something in future to that the pump speed can be varied.
The tap spout just swivels around when you need to use it, when not in use you just swivel it back and the compartment cover just goes back on as normal.
Hopefully that all makes sense
The standard install comes with gravity fed hose tap fitted so that it can be used out the rear passenger side door.
I decided to fit a tap into the little storage compartment which is next to the tool box in the rear door.
Here is the link to the tap that I used.
https://www.whitworths.com.au/main_i...AbsolutePage=1
The whole job cost about $60 and took me about 3 hours, athough it would have been a lot quicker if I had of removed the drawers.
The is a manual isolation tap on the pipe as it leaves the tank and the pump is installed under the edge of the tank behind the back seats.
Power comes from the previous installed ABR sidewinder kit that brings power from the Aux battery to the area where the jack is stored.
As the tap is switched on by means of a simple toggle switch I was a little worried it might get bumped on by something else that was stored in the compartment so I fitted an isolation switch in the top left corner of the compartment.
The tap and pump are built to use a 10mm ID hose. I used reinforced hose to avoid kinking when the door is closed. The hose fits through the rubber sleeve that carries the cables to the rear door. Its a little snug but spray it with Inox and it goes through ok.
If anything the water comes out of the tap a little fast, so it might help to step the hose down to a smaller diameter to reduce the flow, which would also make it easier to pass through as well. There is only 2 speeds, flat out or off, so I may look at installing something in future to that the pump speed can be varied.
The tap spout just swivels around when you need to use it, when not in use you just swivel it back and the compartment cover just goes back on as normal.
Hopefully that all makes sense
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