Thread: Carrying Fuel On Trailers

gday old ex army reem jerry cans, where can i buy some, im on the gold coast, cheers

Originally Posted by TerryO

Personally I won't use a Jerry that has had petrol in it for Diesel and vice versa even though the risk of cross contamination is not that great.

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Should not usually a problem putting petrol in a former diesel jerry as you can put a small amount of diesel into a full tank of petrol to use as an upper cylinder lubricant. This is instead of using expensive upper cylinder lubricants to do the same job.

Diana

Better army disposal shops sell ex army jerrycans, but it pays to look at a few carefully and pick out the best ones.
I find Autopro and Repco can sell reasonable metal ones for about 50 dollars a pop new, but they can sell rubbish too.
Look for country of manufacture on the label.....china and tawian are no go.
Yugoslavia tends to be good and feel the weight of construction ect.
If you tend to use your metal jerry can with a pouring attachment and for general easy useage, look carefully for the air vent pipe arrangement just inside the pouring neck.
Good metal jerry cans have well designed metal pipe which runs back into the jerry can and lets air back into the jerry can when pouring and does so in a controlled manner and that pipe should line up correctly with any pouring attachment you should purchase for your jerry can.
Cheap jerry can this pipe can be a poorly fitted piece of folded metal , or is not long enough to vent air correctly back into the jerry can.
If buying a plastic jerry for diesel, get one with a extra cap , or air vent in the top as you could spend all day trying to empty the thing via pourer, etc.

Any pouring attachment with a metal jerry cans has some problems, but it is now a requirement for modern vehicles.
I just had a quick look of whats advailible and there is nothing that impresses me much
The best one was like the one below , but had along air vent pipe that ran back down though the pouring throat of the jerry can, indepandant of the jerry cans air vent pipe and because of that, could empty the jerry can quickly.
Holding onto a jerrycan chest height with a poorly venting pouring attachment is not much fun as it takes a very long time glugging away and that jerry can gets very heavy.


The real answer to jerry cans is do with them what they were designed to do and pour them without a attachment.
Real men ,drive real landrovers that have extendable fuel tank spouts designed especially for jerry cans, like earlier model defenders, and ex miltiary series 2as and 101 Forward control etc and drop a jerry in the tank in a minute.

Or have a big funnel we used to empty a jerry in about 15 sec into M113,s they had a big funnel so a jerry would sit in it

Petrol jerry cans various vehicles I have in my photo bucket collection





The set up on my Jayco...........Only use the jerry carriers for water, but that only because it suits me to do so .

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Two jerry carriers on the A frame of a jeep trailer can just been seen

Originally Posted by 101 Ron

They do not work and end up spilling as much fuel as goes in the tank. Yep not needed for the 101 but a spout or a funnel is needed for the car.

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