This is a simple shower pump set up using the elcheapo $25-00 shower head .These cheap showers usually don’t last more than a year in my experience, but my good friend came up with this solution.
Keep the shower rose head and main tubing from the cheap unit, and attach it to a decent marine bilge pump. This was around $40-00 and is an 800 g/ph unit. It is also designed to be under water. If the caravan pump should ever fail this is a great back up.
Or if by a river and you have plenty of water this outfit can be employed right in the vans shower area and you will always have a hot shower. It saves van water and means if the water is cloudy, it doesn’t have to go into the tank. I prefer to carry a small golf buggy battery and then it is completely portable
We once camped with a young family in Longreach who had an electric flow through hot tap fitted and when they fired up their 2 KV Honda it did not have the power to give them hot water. I lent them this as it runs with low power off any 12 volt supply and gave them their first hot shower in a week.
We always have a camp fire going and some hot water mixed into cold in an 8 gal bucket is enough for a shower. If the ladies are doing their hair just get a bigger bucket.
Because this shower is a great back up to the vans hot water system, I installed an extra 12 volt outlet on the bench near the shower. So now we don’t need to hunt for a power point.

This shows the whole outfit .The whole thing as about 2.4 meters (8ft) long

An in line switch is good for control. some of the cheap showers even include them. Crock clips are handy for quick connection to a battery.


Please only post pics with ideas.
The comments thread without pics is here,
http://www.candm.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8222

Hi every one, This previously posted.
I thought I would get a wheel base plate so that the jockey wheel will not move and also have a larger bearing area. Problem is that I couldn’t find one that readily takes a 10 inch wheel.

On most occasions I just use the standard flat steel base plate with a bit of marine ply to make a bigger footprint, but since installing a caravan mover, I thought it is easier to leave the big wheel on and utilise a decent base plate. These things are usually in the $10.00 range and most folk would just buy one.

But due to the size of my wheel (10 inches), I decided to make one. So having a 10 inch diameter saw, I just marked out a bit of scrap cedar pine and simply kept cutting grooves until I had the right width. Easy really, and took 15 minutes. I drilled a three quarter inch hole in it for drainage as well. It took longer to give it a couple of coats of Estapol than to actually make it.

Re: Jockey wheels and things
Here is the way it fits,