Adding an outside shower faucet |
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Topic: Adding an outside shower faucet Posted: 03 Aug 2011 at 2:24pm |
Awesome. Like I said, this is now the 1st place finisher as far a MODS are concerned for the R-Pod, as far as I'm concerned. Enjoy.
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 4:54pm |
BTW, for those considering this, there is an option if you don't want to mount one permanently. Add quick disconnects to your low point drains (or use the threaded ends already there) and then you can add a temporary faucet in camp. Downside to this is its something else to set up and take down, which is why I opted for the permanent addition. |
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 4:43pm |
With an install right below the sink I don't see why not. You'll be tapping into water lines that are already there, its not like you need to run new ones that have to function with the slide-out mechanism. Look under your sink to be sure.
Not sure what make/model they installed. I'll see if I can find one tonight.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Footslogger03
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jul 2011 Location: Laramie, WY Online Status: Offline Posts: 362 |
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 3:18pm |
That is a clean instal man ! Wonder if you could work around tha slide-out on a 177 and put one in. Do you know the make/model?
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Livin' the Dream ...'Slogger
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 2:10pm |
Yup, me too. I could have done it for under $100 including tools. Its like oil changes and brake pads, I've done them many times in the past (including 2 oil changes this past weekend), but some times you just don't feel like it. Like when its 20 F outside and there is snow on the ground.
Or when its 100 F outside and the camper is already at the dealer...
I always preferred to do our dishes outside with the shower faucet with our popup, now I can again, yay. My wife cooks, I do the dishes. I've even offered use of it to nearby tenters in the past, a little pay-it-forward.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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this_is_nascar
Senior Member Joined: 24 Jan 2010 Location: NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 466 |
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 9:50am |
I think that price is fair, considering the fact that the dealer takes on all the responsibilities and has all the right tools. For someone like me, who is not a handy person, I'd have to go out and buy all the tools, hope I got this right, etc. I think that price is fine, considering what you got with it.
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"Ray & Connie"
- 2017 R-Pod RP-180 - 2007 Toyota Tacoma TRD-Off Road |
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furpod
Moderator Group - pHp Joined: 25 Jul 2011 Location: Central KY Online Status: Offline Posts: 6128 |
Posted: 02 Aug 2011 at 8:51am |
I like it. We could do one right behind the sink in the slide out.. Hmm... need to go to camping world soon..
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FISHTAIL
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Location: La Plata, MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 130 |
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 10:58pm |
LOL, I don't think that's a serious risk outside. If you had it closed in maybe, but I figured you'd just have a shower curtain around you without a roof on it...you'd be safe then. |
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 4:46pm |
nascar - my dealer charged me $344, installed. Obviously you could do it yourself much cheaper. Buying and mounting the thing wouldn't have bothered me, but I didn't feel like dealing with the water connections inside. Plus this way if rain water leaks in or the water connections leak I can take it back to them and demand a fix.
fishtail - that warm air might feel good, but it is combustion exhaust which at the very least would make you pass out... or worse. Carbon monoxide poisoning isn't a good thing.
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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Damour
Senior Member Joined: 07 Jul 2011 Location: Quebec Online Status: Offline Posts: 162 |
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 at 4:43pm |
You're brave to make a whole in your Pod
For me it's too fresh to my heart .. I cannot do that .. I don't want to hurt her loll
I'm not emotionally "ready" loll
But it's a very good mod
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rp 171 , from Québec with not a good english writing lol
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