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Robert,
No damage will be done to your Airstream by
traveling with a full tank of fresh water. It is designed to be able to handle
this load and it will often will improve the trailer's behavior while towing.
It's location at the front or center of the trailer makes this
possible.
However the black and gray tanks on Airstreams with
the rear bathroom, are in the rear of the trailer. As the trailer travels
down the road the rear will bounce up and down with each little change in the
road's surface much more than any other part of the trailer. The trailer
will handle its own weight fine, but add the many pounds of full holding tanks
and you can easily see the extra stress that you are requiring the frame to
handle. In the early years of the gray tank's existence the frame was not
strenghthened enough to handle this extra weight while bouncing down a bumpy
road. Several trailer's frames bent under the stress. A fix for this is
available from Airstream. This is not believed to be an issue with the mid
bathroom models since the tanks are located closer to the axles and not
subjected to all the bouncing that rear tanks are.
Scott Scheuermann
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