Has anyone bypassed or replaced whale filler in a Bailey van? (1 Viewer)

[celticmini]

I have a new bailey 740, water filling and emptying are rediculously slow. I can see the queues in Germany now behind me! I need to sort this before my next to holiday and before world war 3 breaks out!

I took me 20 minutes to empty a full water tank and fill the fresh in parallel not one after the other.

I have resorted to having a second drain two fitted on other side, now I can empty both sides for convenience and where allowed to use both, speed.

I now need to alter filler to speed up filling! I know I could do it through trap in floor but that seems ridiculous I just want a hozelock type fitting on side of van either into existing pipework via a y connector or to the tank via a new connection.

Has anyone sorted it?????

 

[Vic]

I have a 2012 740 and have fitted a 'normal ' filler running a 40mm pipe into the fresh water tank without linking it to the snail bore piping. I have looked at the new ones and space seems far more limited.
As far as the grey waste is concerned, I cut a 50mm hole in the bottom of the tank beneath the inspection cap and fitted a pond gate valve. Emptying now takes seconds. Again, I looked on the new vans and the tank appears to be closer to the ground, so this may not be an option.
Vic

 

[celticmini]

Thanks I will investigate both options further!
I assume your gate valve is just a dump valve no pipe just straight out?

Thanks again!

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[Vic]

Yep, straight out.