Trailer mounted pump vs truck

Personally the only way to go is trailer mounted system. We have 5 tankers all with trailer mounted masport pumps ran off the wet line of the truck. Basically you just need a 2 line wet kit system mounted on the truck. This also adds to versatility of your truck and enables you to pull various types of trailers along the way. I would recommend running a 2 line dump pump setup that way you have the ability to control a dump trailer or walking floor along the way. You can buy a complete kit for around $1500.00 and install yourself with minimal knowledge in an afternoon. I would make sure to run already 40 gallon minimum tank in order to keep oil temperatures down.

 

it think trailer mounted is the way to go, you will need a 2 line wet kit, witch can be used for many other things as well. but you don't have to carry that truck mounted pump around with you whenever you are hauling something else.

its been a while sense iv done a wet kit from scratch but i think 1500 might be a pretty low parts estimate. i think when i changed my pto a year or two ago the pto alone was around 1000, grantid it is a clutch shift can probably get a standard for near half that. witch i went with because i pull side dump and it can be very nice to be able to shift in and out your pto while moving, not necessary for vac trailer. vac trailers do require quite a bit of flow however to run well, 28-30 gpm if i remember right. i ran mostly all chalanger pumps tho, not sure if masports have different requirements. your going to want a pretty big pump on there. but i think your probably going to be a bit more than 1500 in parts with pto, tank, pump, hoses fittings and fluids, 5 gallons synthetic transmission oil, 40 gallons hydraulic oil, as far as mouting in a afternoon, possibly if you don't have to move anything around to make room to mount your tank. i would say a good well thought out install should take the better part of a day. also be sure to get your backlash set right or your pto will be noisy and might eat itself alive other than that yeah its pretty straight forward.

40-50 gallon tank if your not going to run a thermoflo (spendy) without a cooler your going to want oil volume to control temps. 5-10 gallon thermoflo will work just as well though for vac.

 

A good pump system put on your truck by a shop that knows what there doing will be north of 10K....

Go for a trailer mounted pump.. so you just need a wet line system... even if you get paid a couple of % less for using their pump....

 

i would think it would have to be a pretty involved wet kit setup to hit 10k on a shop install, but certainly not impossible. a truck with fairings and lots of stuff in the way, i would expect shop installed to start around 4500-6500 for a basic setup with a basic tank on a simple truck and go up from there its been forever sense iv priced a lot of that stuff but i think the thermoflow tanks were running around the 2k mark by themselves.

as far as the truck mounted pumps i have no idea what they run but i would say basically the cost of a wet kit install plus whatever the pump itself cost. there are a couple different ways iv seen them done pto to a driveshaft that drives the pump and then other that are a wet kit that runs a hydra motor on the pump mounted on the truck.

 

Ya, liquid pump at least 2k and up ... drum hydro pack cooler 2700 and up. And so it goes . The higher the gpm you want to move the more money you'll spend .



Hyd driven product pump is the best way to do it. Drive shafts suck...

 

yeah i agree driveshafts suck

the vac pumps like the op is talking about are not fluid pumps but high cfm air pumps used to suck the load onto the trailer and push it off similar to a pump on for a pnumatic tank or a septic pumping truck.

gear fluid pumps are pretty common on oil tankers, and actually a pretty good setup for hauling salt water as well. there used to be a lot more fluid pumps hauling water but the oil companys don't really like them cause they take a little longer, i liked them for hauling salt water cause they push with a restriction like at the disposals pushing threw the filters better than vac pumps and the trailers are lighter because they don't have to withstand the suction. so you can haul more.

 

Those are even more money......when I was getting my Hyd leak fixed the guy was showing me a drum blower set up for plastic 17k installed......

 

Chanses that you or someone will wreck trailer higher then tractor, also I have truckor pump and ad least I am trying to keep it in working condition. Pump on trailer? Most drivers will don't give a rat about it, so yes you will have to use more hoaes every time load need pump unloading, but at least you know that lumo will work in 99%