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Originally Posted by kmahren
Cruisingdad,
Where do you intend to situate the bladder, if you go for it? Have you investigated how you will tie it into the system? i.e. pump from bladder to main tank or go directly to the filter? Gerry cans on deck add alot of topside weight, which I would think is not desireable either.
Ken |
I have a few spots in my boat that it would work, but think I have decided on an area under the floorboards amidship. I can reroute the hoses to make it work.
You will need to come up with a way to fill it. The easiest and cheapest way is for a diesel transfer
pump from the main tank. In essense, you flip the switch and it
pumps it one way or the others (in this example, from the main tank and fills the bladder). Once filled, you turn it off and continue filling the main tank. When you want to refil the maintank (because you ran out of diesel), again, flip the swtich and reverse the process.
The issue here is that you are reliant on a
pump to provide the diesel and it would not be as good of a system as plumbing it directly with valves like you might a second tank. The best solution is to plumb it just like a second tank, of course, with its own deck access, etc.
Whatever you do, remember that (depending on the size of the tank) you will add a lot of weight. I would search for a spot (hopefully under the floorboards) that will be centerline and well below the waterline.
Make sense??
- CD
Edit: You can use a series of valves to direct the to and from source and destination with a single
pump.