Help with yellow diesel cans, please.

[GaryM]

Harv,

That's slick. I had not seen it before. I guess you have to be careful and not get carried away and overflow the tank.

Right now I'm using a filter funnel I got at True Value. It works fine, but you need to keep stopping to check the level in the tank. Also it's something else to store and keep clean.

I stopped at NAPA a little earlier and the yellow can they had came with a solid plastic spout that stored inside the can. When done fueling you'd have to spin off the ring, invert the spout, replace the plastic cap, if you heven't misplaced it. Then you have to replace the ring that holds it all together!

Must be a better way.

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>the yellow can they had came with a solid plastic spout that stored inside the can. When done fueling you'd have to spin off the ring, invert the spout, replace the plastic cap, if you heven't misplaced it. Then you have to replace the ring that holds it all together!</font color=blue>

Gary, that sure sounds like the red 5 gallon plastic can I have for gasoline, and I went through that routine of inverting the spout, etc. for couple of years before I noticed that if you leave the spout in place, that little plastic cap fits snugly on the end of the spout and I had been wasting time assembling and disassembling it./w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif Now the only time I unscrew that ring and remove the spout is to refill the can at the gas pump./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Of course yours may be different, so that might not work for you.

 

[edt]

Bird my gas can is the same with me disassembling it all the time until light bulb went off cool now I only disassembling in travel or too refill
edt

 

[Harv]

<font color=blue>I guess you have to be careful and not get carried away and overflow the tank</font color=blue>

My tank is spec'd to hold 7.7 gallons of fuel. I always wait for the guage to show less than a quarter of a tank, and then just dump the whole can in. Never overflowed a drop, and my yellow cans are either completely empty or completely full. When both cans are empty, I know I have 15 hours of operating time left to get 'em filled again. In my case, that's maybe a month or two.

<font color=blue>a solid plastic spout that stored inside the can</font color=blue>

Notice in my pictures that there is a separate place on the can to store the spout assembly. Of course, now that I've attached the hose and stuff, I can't use it that way.

The spouts on my red gasoline cans work the same way Bird's does.

 

[cchoate]

I simply took 2 red plastic gas cans (6 gal each) and wrote diesel only on them in black sharpie.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Blurrybill,
I don't know where you live, so am not sure about recommending a place to find them. If, however, you live in the western hemisphere, and north of the United States part of America, you can find them at Canadian Tire stores.
And by the way, if you don't splash fuel all over it, how can you consider it a real tractor? You know, it won't smell right /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif unless it has diesel fumes evaporating from it.
Jim W

 

[Ozarker]

I did that once. Used a red can for Kerosene and wrote Kerosene on it. Unfortunately, teenagers don't read what is written on a container before they use it......and lawn mowers don't run worth a [censored] on kerosene.

 

[Alan L.]

I have two of those plastic 5-gallon diesel cans. The spout on them sucks. You unscrew one lid and then stick you finger into the end of the plastic spout and pull it out where it locks onto position. Actually on the yellow cans it works Ok but on my identical red can you can't get it out. I wonder if you can buy the lid/spout assembly separate from the can.

I don't always use the screen because I forget to take it with me when I trailer to relative's places to do work. Plus, when I'm in town I put fuel in the tractor right out of the pump. Hope I'm not asking for trouble.

 

[Gary_in_Indiana]

I had a similar problem with straight gasoline, gasoline for 2 cycle engines with oil mix and gasoline for 4 cycle with oil mix. I just sprayed a big, ugly paint spot on each side panel of the two mix cans differentiating them from gas as well as from one another...

 

[Grunge]

I bought one at Tractor Supply last week. Just filled it today, since the dealer delivered the tractor last week with a full tank. If it doesn't rain tonight I'll let you know how easy it fills.
Gary