The cure to it all is to use a dish pan and just unscrew the drain cap to
get your water.
I'd be afraid to drink from one of those 20 year old tanks.
I always carried my drinking water and I always packed perishable food in
ice chest.
If you wanted to get real specialized you could siphon off water through the
fill port on the side of the van.
I never carried a spare anything except things that might cripple the van
like a failed distributor, alternator belts or fuel pump.

Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "bueses" <bueses@earthlink.net>
To: "Stan Wilder" <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>; <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: water tank pump problem

> > I guess that I should interject here that I installed a little neon
> > indicator light so I knew when my pump was getting power and supposed to
be
> > running. There is often a delay in the water coming out of the faucet
and
> > the little indicator light helps to keep you from continuing to turn the
> > faucet against the rather pathetic little stop in the knob and breaking
it.
> > I also used a little push button on a jumper wire when the faucet would
> > break (three times in 11 years).
> > I'd just leave the knob off and use the remote push button to run the
pump.
> > I used several switch/button routines over the 11 years on my Westy.
> >
>
> Hmmm, sounds like 1 should carry a spare faucet, switch, & pump along in
> case these fail at say, Burning Man in the middle of BFE?  Are these
readily
> available?
>
> Tom
>