You don't mention what year your Westy is, and so far the
recommendations have addressed the late model pump.  If you have an
early Westy with the pump under the sink, your idea of "throw the
hose ... into the smaller tank..." should work just fine. The trick
with ALL water pumps, whether in a Westy or in the ground in the back
yard, is that water pumps push much better than they pull. So yes, it
is partially gravity fed.

Jim

On Oct 9, 2006, at 3:46 PM, chris wrote:

> I removed my water tank some time ago.
>
> id like to just throw the hose that fed into the stock tank, into a
> smaller portable water tank I have handy, but the pump doesn't seem to
> be able to pull the water up from it.
>
> <snip>
>
> how did the old system work, is it (in part) gravity fed?