Caravan & Motorhome Water Fittings
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2019
- Most Australian caravan and motorhome manufactures used 12mm water hose and fittings. These are normally refereed to as John Guest fittings. JG is the band of the products used. They are a simply push together fitting and used with various
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Many thanks again, probably the least explained van/RV component. All clear now
Your welcome. Thanks for watching. Ben
Hey thanks you for this excellent video! Made 4 years ago and still helping people - I see the most recent comment before mine was just 6 hours ago! Gee - easy when you know how! And now I know how! HUGE thank you!
I had to relocate my drain tap on my water tank. I looked at the existing fittings and they were like nothing else I had ever worked on and I had no Idea where to start or how to pull the existing apart. This Guy simplified it all and I not only understood but done the job easy Thank You
Many thanks for your succinct and informative explanation of fittings. I've discovered a water fitting problem in my motor home and wondered how I might go about finding out what's going to be the fitting to fix the problem. You've assisted me in a number of ways. Thanks again!
Thanks! I fixed my leaky issue straight away, before this vid I had no idea what these fittings were called or how they worked. Thanks Again
Such a good summary for how these fittings work. Thank you!
Thanks for this mate, I've just bought a used van and some of these joints under the van are leaking. I feel confident to tackle it, now I know how these fittings work. I'd never seen them before. Cheers!
Thankyou Day 1 seeing how The 12 mm john G pipes hook-up and pull apart awesome stuff Very simple... 😅 And handy to Get Pex cutter...
Brilliant, helped me alot. Thanks mate.
Nice tutorial 👍🏻
Thanks very much awesome have a great day . Your a legion
Brilliant used a 10mm to 12mm reducing coupling on my motor home to replace one that failed on a hot water feed. Noticed it didn't have the clips in so have remedied that!
Great advice
Thanks! Simple straight forward explanation. Now to see if I can stop that drop from the fitting now I know it’s not the threaded section leaking.
Well explained
I had a hot water pipe leading to the shower burst whilst I was up north this year. To get it off I had to fit my arm into a narrow gap between the ensuite wall and the washing machine and couldn't get any leverage to push the piece in to release the pipe. (I still haven't worked out how the washing machine is fixed in)
I managed to get it out by getting a 12mm open ended spanner and levering it against the fitting. I had a mate under the van who pulled it when I gave him the OK. (He pulled it out with such force, and it came away so suddenly that he nearly broke his nose but that's another story for happy hour).
Problem then was that no matter how hard I tried I couldn't get the leverage to get the replacement pipe into the fitting and gave up trying. I managed to isolate the ensuite hot water pipe from the plumbing system for the rest of the trip.
When I got home I chased quotes to replace all pipes (hot and cold) but couldn't get any repairers interested.
I decided to give it 1 more try and voila the pipe went in 1st go (I think performance anxiety might have had something to do with it).
Result is that I have now replaced all pipes myself for a cost of around $40 and no leaks.
Cheers cobber.
One question, over tightening, are they all fitted hand tight? How to know when to stop if using a spanner?
I can push to release the hose but can’t get the hose to come fully out?
I have a tee joint and im trying to replace the tap, however the other tap seems to have 10mm barb fittings, where is my old tap was just a straight push fit, would the barb just push into the tee piece?
I don't fully understand your question. the pipe in the straight or tee fittings simply push in and to remove you hold the collar back then pull the hose out.
You could give it a go. You can get Reducers so you put a 12 or 15mm tube in one end and smaller diameter in the other. look up John Guest fittings
These john guest fittings are a pain in the arse what other options out there
Hi Eli, I am sure there are options but these fittings have proven themselves to be very reliable over the years. Do you know how to disconnect and re connect correctly?
I do mate thanks for the response. It just seems even when installed correctly if there's any movement eg caravan moving to new place it always ends up leaking. Has caused some rot and quite the headache.
Thanks for your info you couldn't tell me if the AMPFIBIAN surge protector is available in New Zealand at all
Try your local Camec or Coast To Coast outlet
@@Bundyrvs Thanks if they do not stock it can i order from you guys
@@noeleenfalkner4557 this is the link to Camec NZ for the part you need. www.camec.co.nz/catalogsearch/result/?q=+240v+power+adaptor Otherwise call freedom NZ their a good bunch of guys. regards Ben
@@Bundyrvs Thank you so much will save me heaps of worry and money
Why don't you show how to fit the end inserts, especially in the hot water lines. For 50c don't risk a leak...it will eventually
Absolutely agree 100%... I live in UK and bought a new Swift caravan 3 years ago. It was parked upmost of 2019 due to Covid lockdowns. My first outing this year I came back to my van to find the carpets were soaked. Traced the leak to the JG connector for the shower cold feed. Removed the fitting and found no insert (or clips) had been fitted, checked some of the other connectors and found the same (manufacturers cutting corners to save money FFS). I purchased some inserts, clips, connectors and a couple of metres of spare pipe. Have yet to fit it but noticed the end of one of the new pipes is slightly oval. As with the domestic 15mm pipe, the inserts are intended to maintain the circular section of the pipe and maintain the integrity of the seal. Will be fitting inserts, clips and pressure testing this weekend and also modifying the "lazy" manufacturers pipe layout to reduce the number of unnecessary connections. Why don't people make things right first time? Given the cost of a new caravan another £20 was neither here nor there.