Hi, suggestion, mount the pump/motor on separate engine mounts to minimise noise and vibration and torsional twists from the truck chassis + pump plumbing
I wonder if you could remote mount the radiator up high as well. That would avoid the chaff problem altogether. Add some extra hose and an electric fan and call it good.
@@tomsbrookfarm There shouldn't be any issues with changes in height as the system is filled to the top so the pump only has to overcome the friction in the pipes, there is no static head to overcome. You could increase the pipe a few sizes and that will significantly reduce the friction losses. The other option would be to run a pipe along inside the bottom of the water tank, reject the heat into the fire water and do away with the radiator altogether, but that sounds like a lot of alloy welding and I am not sure the juice is worth the squeeze.
Halfway through the video to make one note. It surely works nice to have Fleetwood start so easily compared to some other projects and/or other vehicles in the process of modifications. In looking at Fleetwood's fittings on the side. I would assume that you have 3 separate tanks inside the main shell?? Do you go inside the tank and open access holes to make it one big tank without everything sloshing around inside?? Probably something like 4 or more 3" holes from tank to tank that will facilitate filling the whole tank and being able to use the entire tank as one big reservoir. Good work so far!!
Yer I forgot to mention it but we are going to jump in to the middle tank and cut holes between the two tanks so that they are all connected and we keep the baffles to reduce the slosh effect
Im assuming the army left it as 3 separate compartments and fuel spec? If so, don't forget to cut the walls to join them as one. Also, the air operated foot valves will need to be bypassed.
Mates Valueliner hold air for month to 6 weeks he went right through system put valve on airlines too tank yeah sweet start everytime old mate put him right on how too go about it CHEERS
Yer its something I hoped that the mechanics would of sorted when it was in for the pits inspection. But to be honest they could be bothered with it all and now we have a leak somewhere. At least with an air compressor on there it will always be full and ready to go when ever we need it!
Hi from France, i drive a petrol tanker over here,broke my heart watching this video,lot of technologie goes into building a petrol tanker,wouldn't you be better off buying an old CFA unit ?
They do have the water tankers available but I didnt go to them for 2 reasons. They are a lot and I mean a lot more expensive!!! And the second is that there was going to be no room for a crew deck as the tanks are bigger ($14 000L)
