Posted on 09/05/2019 3:19:54 PM PDT by Drew68
Take off the stock spout, funnel. Done. BOOM!
I have 10-12 old style 5 gallon plastic cans I bought at garage sales for .50 -1.00 each. Seniors selling their stuff to move into condos or assisted living.
I use them for old oil or antifreeze storage until it goes to the recycler or new gas.
One time my wife picked up one with used antifreeze and filled up the zero turn. Afternoon spent draining and flushing the system.
Something you might not know. Never use a metal can with Ethanol Gas. The can will rust and contaminate the fuel. Plus more condensation with a metal can.
Remove nozzle from gas can.
Insert funnel to tank being filled.
Carefully pour gas from can into funnel being sure to stop before overfill of tank.
EZ PZ
[Blame Lieyahs, Esq.]
The insanity of these new gas cans is beyond insanity. If I use them as designed I spill far more gasoline as in the past. I modify them to be easy to use. They now spill more gas than the original cans from years ago, but much less than the new and wonderful cans from the EPA.
The engineers who designed these things obviously never had to use them.
Forgot to add this. The EPA made the manufactures change the thread on the nozzle so one could not use the old nozzles on new gas cans. Thus they insured much more spillage of gasoline.
Idiots!
Replaced ever gas can spout with the easy pour spouts. They work great.
We have 43 acres, so we go through a LOT of gas & diesel. I replaced all my diesel cans with jerry cans from sportsmansguide.com.
I have a rotopax, and it’s so archaic that instead of using the spout I just slosh the gas into whatever contraption is needed. Jup, gas goes spilling everywhere...
I never realized it was bureaucrats behind it, but makes sense now.
You can also get D-cell battery powered small pumps for about $15. Fewer overfills. No need to hold a 5-gal can steady. No tricks. No spills.
Mrs Infool7 and I were tasked with cleaning up
after my stepdad passed away.
He had about 15 old gas cans of various sizes.
I have several to choose from now.
7
the old red polyethylene gas “cans” with the original spouts that actually can pour gas without spilling it are worth their weight in gold ... i treasure mine and baby them ...
Forgot to mention what I like best about the VP gas cans, it takes 33 seconds to empty a five gallon can, very nice when filling the sleds outside when it’s 10 below.
I have spilled more gasoline in the past years since the inception of these ‘California style gas cans’ than I did in the 45 years before. These cans are horrible. I have two that do not work anymore, one five gallon can and one 2 and 1/2 gallon can. I hope conservative politicans see this post and others. We need to revert to the old fashioned ones with a funnel. I spilled almost zero gas over the 45 years before these new cans.
I have heard that in california if one is caught driving with an old metal 5 gallon jerry can that the fine is $5000/can, full or empty...
Lol. You win the FR today.
$154 for four of them. I spent $80 on four of those crappy plastic jugs at Walmart today.
I'd have easy spent double on these solid Jerry cans. Might just do that. Spend money on quality and you only cry once.
It’s like those low flush toilets. Now we have to flush 3-4 times, using even more water than before.
Damn right!
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