Van Plumbing | Van Build Step 8

this is the eighth video in our van build series humming we're doing a very basic plumbing system on our van we're not having any hot water or our shower just running cold water at the sink just ago are some of the components here we have a potable water tank which is just a traditional office water jug a square container seven gallons it's used as our gray water tank which we can remove and take out the dump Hey fresh water pump it's a little guy just one gallon per minute which is fine because we have a very small tank so vinyl tubing and nylon tubing some fittings to could adapt everything together a simple tap and a RV drain adapter for our household kitchen sink stopper and then finally we have some ratchet straps and blocks of wood to support the the hold tanks in place this is where we're gonna be installing everything underneath the sink here I pre-cut a few blocks here let's first start by installing stopper assembly this is just like when you see your kitchen safe that's a little rubber thing that goes inside take and throw that away we're not going to end up using this piece at all and I'll thread on the RV adapter just doing a drive fit right now now put this together for the final time I used to seal it [Music] so we'll take this and put it through the hole the sink the drink I pointed in the direction we want so I'm going to kind of point it backwards a little bit look at the barbed fitting on the tank and got the barbed fitting on the sink drink I've got this piece of hose here so we used to connect it just stick on top of there now I got a pretty close to a level you down what you don't want it to do is go way up and back down to then your sink won't drain there now the good idea where everything's gonna be the problem tank there in the left bring a water tank on the right and some of the plumbing might go I'm gonna go ahead and screw down the blocks to hold everything in place and install the straps [Music] now to install these tie-down strap I'm just gonna make a little mark where I want them to end up to install these straps I'm using a machine screw with a washer and I'm just gonna run that screw right through the stitched area [Music] the last component to install is going to be this water pump [Music] want to install the faucet next which is requires drilling a hole into the countertop [Music] now to install the water on which is just this stiff nylon tube we'll take the nut the team with the faucet slip it over the tube and we'll take this ferrule you can see that's kind of tapered you want the tapered end to go out so the tape ran to fit inside because there's another taper inside of the faucet that this one interface without see now in my instance I needed to converted this nylon tubing that the faucet and the tank will use to the barbed fitting that the pump uses so I have this adapter I made up using two fittings from the hardware store in a short bit nylon of vinyl tubing and two hose clamps [Music] so I'm getting ready to assemble this for the final time a little bit of plumbers putty to go around this lip flange and they have a little bit of pipe thread compound and this will seal this connection up just take a little ring of this it's just like play-doh but probably not okay to eat I'll just make a little ring of it does our completed installation we have our water tank on the sink at some point in your plumbing project you're gonna have to incent tapered pipe thread fittings like these these fittings have a slight taper to them so you can see that kind of tapers towards the nose of the fitting and that fits into the corresponding taper and the other female fitting so we've got the male fitting for the female fitting and these threads don't make a perfect seal so you need to use some sort of sealing tape or sealing compound I like to use teflon tape because it's easy and not very messy the important thing with using teflon tape is to pay attention how the fitting screws into its meeting app see how this one goes in the clockwise [Music] see I'm wrapping it in a clockwise direction that's going to correspond with the direction of video so the tape is tighter as you tighten it into the fitting and doesn't get unwound when he goes in

Channel: Abroad Reach Travel

Views: 40,340

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Id: 1W3IrU0yOpU

Length: 7min 52sec (472 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 09 2019