High Flow refuelling options

[newby@54]

Hi


We're on our first trip (into outback Qld)with our new D4 HSE SD towing our off road van and find that fuelling up can be difficult in either 1. finding a low flow pump or 2. when we do, accessing it with the van hooked up.


What do others do? Is there an adaptor that can be fitted onto a high flow nozzle so that I can use truck stops to improve access?


Any advice greatly appreciated.


Thanks


Nic

[RHS58]

Was caught out in Cunnamulla a couple months ago.
Only hi flow available.
Fortunately the servo guy had a plastic adaptor he loaned me. Said he got it from Jeep.
Was a bit messy, and set off the LR misfuel device, but with a bit of fiddling about I got filled up.

So if you can bring yourself to it, wander in to the Jeep parts department.

Alternatively, I reckon you can just cut down a cheap plastic funnel from Super Cheap and make your own.

Ron

[RHS58]

Or from VW:

[PeterJ]

I have filled from hi-flow pumps lots of times, I just hold the nozzle carefully to align it with the filler pipe and fill slowly. It's not as easy as a slow flow where the nozzle goes down the filler pipe but it has never resulted in the mis-fuel device being activated. Gloves are a great idea, cheap as chips or $2 shop for a pack of 100 disposable, I put them in the rear door pocket, the number of leaky diesel hand pieces is a pain.

[Roverlord off road spares]

the number of leaky diesel hand pieces is a pain.

LEAKY!
Heather got caught the other day, some one put a nail into the hand piece and she got drenched in diesel. Was told that some truckies do this so they don't have to hold the handle. A couple of litres of diesel wasted on the floor. She washed it way with some water and got abused by the bloke on the other pump opposite, as if she meant to do it.
The servo attendant didn't care less. they just take your money.
You just gotta love the smell of diesel when some one comes home into the house.

[catch-22]

I have filled from hi-flow pumps lots of times, I just hold the nozzle carefully to align it with the filler pipe and fill slowly. It's not as easy as a slow flow where the nozzle goes down the filler pipe but it has never resulted in the mis-fuel device being activated. Gloves are a great idea, cheap as chips or $2 shop for a pack of 100 disposable, I put them in the rear door pocket, the number of leaky diesel hand pieces is a pain.

Not in the rear door pocket, keep them in the fill area above the filler cap.

[laughto]

I have filled from hi-flow pumps lots of times, I just hold the nozzle carefully to align it with the filler pipe and fill slowly. It's not as easy as a slow flow where the nozzle goes down the filler pipe but it has never resulted in the mis-fuel device being activated.

+1 Never had an issue with a hi-flow pump, in fact they are often the easiest to get to e.g. Shell at Goulburn and Gundagai. Hi flow are usually available when others aren't.

[RobA]

Using a high flow just takes a bit of thought and practice. Best to hold the nozzle firmly against the open neck of the filler and slowly bring the pressure up and ease off if and when it starts spitting back from the air release vents that surround the filler neck. Always use gloves as diesel is carcinogenic and they keep the small off your hands.

Apart from that just take it easy when using them. I can get the tank full to the brim with no problems just by doing the above. But after several hundred refuels over the last four months on the road I also have had a large amount of practice.

I don't like them simply because they are quite heavy but you learn to live with them

Rob

[LandyAndy]

LEAKY!
Heather got caught the other day, some one put a nail into the hand piece and she got drenched in diesel. Was told that some truckies do this so they don't have to hold the handle. A couple of litres of diesel wasted on the floor. She washed it way with some water and got abused by the bloke on the other pump opposite, as if she meant to do it.
The servo attendant didn't care less. they just take your money.
You just gotta love the smell of diesel when some one comes home into the house.

To have a nail in the handle put there by a gear cruncher he would have had to pull it out of the tank still pumping and put it back into the bowser without disturbing the nail.
Hi-flo pumps usually have a trigger lock.
Andrew

[newby@54]

Thanks for all the responses. They give me plenty to work with. Whenever I can I use a long length of paper towel to wrap around the diesel nozzle to save from getting the dreaded diesel on my hands.

Cheers

Nic