Pressurized Water System

Hey all, I'm looking to get a pressurized water system for my truck. Nothing crazy... just something for beach trips / weekend camping trips.

Read a bit about WaterPORT but would love to hear about other folks' systems and if there's agreement on some of the best systems to use/install.

Let me know! Or feel free to point me in the right direction of an existing thread

 

You sure you want to haul all the extra weight hauling water??

G.

 

Depending on how much water you need and what kind of spray pattern your looking for you can get a cheap garden sprayer from the hardware store. Thats what I use and it works great. Put it on the fine mist option and it washes kid feet clear of all sand pretty fast. I have also used it to put out a van that caught fire once too.

 

I did the same thing. Have a two gallon pump sprayer mounted in the bed. Used a 5 gallon water expansion tank bracket from lowes to secure it. Great for doing camp dishes, washing hands, cleaning floor mats etc

Carrying the extra 17-18 pounds isn't a big deal to me

 

Onboard Pressurized Water System for the 2005-Current Toyota Tacoma OBW

 

i have one of the 3.7 gallon waterports. debated between the rinse kits and yakimas too. the waterport seemed to be the easiest/most convenient. the hand pump it came with (costco bundle) works better than I thought it would too. the new ones they came out with look pretty cool, but seems more of a permanent thing than the mid sized 3.7 gallon ones.

 

You mean JETWET don't you? Cost is $99

 

Have the waterport and used it a ton while we lived in Hawaii. I loved just rinsing my daughter off with warm water after jumping in for a quick swim. Using it to rinse my dog off from mud and dirt is a huge plus too. Absolutely love it and use it still after 4 years of use.

 

I use the waterport to get the sand off my kayak after the beach. I use it in tandem with a rechargeable/compact battery charger/compressor. The compressor was the game changer allowing me to really maintain that pressure as the water drains out. Also...very portable which is nice because the spot I rinse the kayak at and the location of my truck are sometimes far apart! Lastly, I added one of those hoses that shrinks up after you cut the water pressure, so that way I don't have to carry the water port around to spray down the whole kayak. Oh...and I used the adapter to put it on the bed rails which keeps it both secure and out of the way.

 

i use a 5 gallon agriculture sprayer with the wand removed. it is easy to charge and holds enough water to shower me and my surf bort off about 3 sessions. If you fill it and leave it in the bed in the morning, the sun will heat it up pretty good. I found the trick to getting good flow/water pressure was removing the spray wand/ head. I keep this in my truck all the time now and have used it as a camp shower/ after bikeing shower.

 

I find that pretty much all these options have too high of a flow rate. Typically they are ~2gpm. So a 7 gallon Waterport only nets 3.5 minutes of water.

I modified a WORX Hydroshot. At 20v it’s 0.5gpm. I removed the pump assembly and wired it to a 12v plug. Now it’s pumping about 0.33gpm. And it comes with a 5-in-1 nozzle that has high pressure streams and shower streams. It’s not powerful but it’s perfect for camping. Plus I get about 13 minutes of running water from a 5 gallon jug. It also will work with any container I choose.

 

i dont quite understand. the waterport has too much pressure and shoots water out too fast? why not just put less pressure? or un-pressurize it and let water flow from gravity?

 

I don't know the specific number, but even gravity fed with the nozzle they use is a lot of water per minute. You end up wasting a lot. You could use a smaller nozzle or some other means of regulating.