autocruise starspirit fresh water fill up

[greenhoe58]

Hi Y'all and happy camping, our fresh water main tank is under the lounge seat, we fill from blue hose from tap outside to the big screw top on the the main tank inside, any other ideas to make this easier?

John.

 

 

[ColinM50]

You should be able to fit a remote filler outside the 'van and plumb it in to the tank, just make sure you fit an overflow so that when it's full it doesn't fill the van.

 

Good source of plumbing bits to do this, though not the only source, is caktanks. http://www.caktanks.co.uk/

 

 

[Derek Uzzell]

It might help to know the age of John’s Autocruise “Starspirit” motorhome, but it sounds like it has the ‘caravan’ type of water-filling system referred to (and complained about) in this ukcampsite.co.uk forum entry

 

https://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/CHATTER/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=12&TopicID=316848

 

and that was also discussed here in a thread beginning in 2007 and revived in 2016 when fitting a ‘motorhome norm’ external water filling-point was explored.

 

https://forums.outandaboutlive.co.uk/forums/Motorhomes/Motorhome-Matters/Autocruise-water-tank-filling/6442/

 

(It MIGHT be practicable to adapt another screw-in cap that would be fitted when tank-filling was to take place, so that connecting the hose inside the motorhome was simpler and with a shut-off valve (like in a domestic toilet system) that would cut off the water supply when the water-tank approached full. But the best improvement would be to fit a ‘normal’ external hole-in-the-body-side filling-point and that could well be a challenging task.)