Installing a 60ltr Water Bladder in a 4x4 (Touring Set Up)

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Is this something you are planning to do in your vehicle? Where do you plan to put the tank? Let us know 🤙🏻

[@grahameroberts8109]

If used for drinking water, do not use a garden hose to fill the bladder unless you like a rubber-like taste. All pipes should be FOOD GRADE, normally a light blue hose similar to what was used. Pre-wash out the bladder with a bleach solution followed by a bi-carb solution rinse. In-line filters both at the inlet side and outlet side should be fitted. You can swap the plastic hose fittings out for brass. There is a brass fitting that seals upon disconnection to avoid drips. After trips away empty the bladder and redo the washing procedure before refilling. Cheers.

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Great tips thanks mate 🙏🏻

[@BondiTreasureHunter]

Very cool set up bro! Gunna be so sweet having this at the Bash 😃🙌💪 Wish I had your skills!

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Cheers bro 🤙🏻

[@veronicawebber5802]

Persistence + trial & error = success!! 🎉 good 👍🏼 job

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Got there in the end 😅😄

[@Bel_leonie]

I think you’re funny as! I could sympathise when the water wouldn’t come out. I was in the same boat trying to work out the joolca shower yesterday and today the drifta bladder! 😅 Had no gas in cylinder 😂 but you’ve made it a lot easier to work out how to use the pump for these things. Thank you! Hope you enjoyed Birdsville big red bash.

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Ha ha thanks I’m glad you enjoyed the video 😅 The Bash was great although my son and I were so sick with the flu for the entire first week of the trip 😏 I started to come good day 2 of the bash then my wife got tonsillitis 🤦🏻‍♂️ Let me know how you go with the Joolca shower and what you think of it ✌🏻

[@michaelr9292]

Just what I’m going to try and do!! Does the bladder need an air opening up top or can the other inlet openings all be closed off? I’m thinking like you have to puncture those water drums from the supermarket to get them to pore properly. Same with the bladder? Cheers mick

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Yeah they’re a great water bladder, I’ve found it so handy 👌🏻 I have a water fill point that comes from a hose at the top which is high enough for no water to spill out from but also lets the air in. Hope yours works well for you ✌🏻

[@BaileyMoyle-dv5es]

Nice set up! What did you end up doing with that black hose coming out of the bladder?

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Thanks mate! With the black hose I ended up just attaching the filler cap and have left it loose just rolled up on top of the bladder. I was going to mount it up higher as a filler point but I’ve found I haven’t needed too and it’s fine as it is and doesn’t leak. Have you bought a Drifter Stockton bladder also?

[@BaileyMoyle-dv5es]

@@TheBeatenTrak beauty cheers! Yeah thinking of getting one in the back for my Hilux and set up the same system as you’ve got there. Did you have a seperate hose to fill up the bladder or just used the same connection except connected it to a tap to fill it?

[@camsin1973]

Great job. FYI . . . A bit of carpet under the pump will quiet it down a bit. And a cheap water tap at the outlet will help with the dribbles when you disconnect the hose 👍

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Thanks mate! Great tips too, appreciated 🙌🏻

[@stevekeenes4030]

cool as !

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Thanks mate! Yeah it’s awesome I love it! Have you got a water tank onboard ?

[@stevekeenes4030]

@The Beaten Trak I have only a 2t litre jerry with a gravity fed hose attached.. but if i was going out west like you I think I'd upgrade for sure.

[@jillhoboken5974]

We need Drifta here in the USA…..

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Yeah it’s a good store that has some great products 👌🏻

[@tinocoboy1]

Prime Minister

[@TheBeatenTrak]

😅

[@Aphony66]

Everything you used that bloody flat blade screwdriver to tighten those hose clamps, I sat cringing, waiting for you to put the screwdriver through your hand. Please use an 8mm socket to tighten those in the future mate, so much safer... pump looks like it only pumps at about 1.5L/min! Thats too little mate. Nerd at least a 12L/min pump

[@TheBeatenTrak]

Ha ha yes mate that old flat blade can be a little sketchy 😅 With the pump I think you’re right, it definitely needs an upgrade 👍🏻