Re-fills: Is there an easier way than two 5-gal diesel jugs??

[WilliamTO-35]

Wooden golf tees make nice vent plugs for plastic gas tanks if you've drilled your own vent hole. Golf tees are also just right for plugging small vacuum hoses on vehicles. But don't cheat and actually pay money for tees; they're around for free by the dozen. The only thing I've never used my collection of golf tees for is playing golf.

 

[Bill 55]

Yes DavidVT that would be the one I am refering to. Wonderful little gizmo

 

[Bill 55]

I think tou can get them off the Northern Tool site too. They are available several places under different names but they all work well

 

[SPYDERLK]

Just try and carry 15 gallons of fuel with no rolling wheels

Yeah. ... Yould need 2 for balance.
larry

 

[Usta]

The original poster is in Florida so I do not think my fuel station will help but others may want to try it.
I have an oil furnace in my garage and so a 275 gallon fuel tank. I got another one year old 275 gallon tank on a deal I could not refuse (free). With the 500 gallon plus, I can heat my garage and have plenty of fuel for about a year.
I was not going to park my tractor beside these tanks and then lug 5 gallon cans so I bought a pump with 25 feet of hose.
The only thing I would do different would be a smaller pump. This pump is running on bypass most of the time because it pumps too fast for my little 6 gallon tractor fuel tank. It sure was nice fueling up the large excavator I borrowed last summer.

 

[HiTechTed]

You can always get a 55 gallon drum (if you have a pickup or trailer) and a hand pump for it. If you turn the key on your kubota will beep faster and faster until it's a sold tone telling you when it's full so you don't have to look in the tank while filling. I use an electric pump but have used the cheap rotary pumps from HF in the past, they seam to do the job.

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I didn't know that about the beeping...does that apply to all of them or just the higher models? I've never tried it but on the next fill I'm going to just for fun!

 

[beppington]

Since my original post I've had a chance to use one of my two modified yellow-cans ... where I drilled a 1/4" vent hole ... It works great!!! No more waiting for that ridiculous gurgle-gurgle-gurgle, blub-blub-blub air trying to pass by the falling diesel fuel. Half the can's diesel is in the tractor in mere seconds rather than minutes ... I can actually stand to keep doing it this way now :thumbsup: (for now that is!)

Next time my tractor needs a whole 5-gallons I'm gonna time it :thumbsup: :laughing:

Update: Forgot to time it ... but an un-predicted side effect to my drilling a 1/4" vent hole in my two plastic diesel cans is that now both of their "EPA" nozzles leak/ drip pretty good while pouring. It's almost like they can't handle the diesel flowing thru them so fast. I haven't removed them yet to see how they're made yet, but will. Maybe there's some internals I need to yank out :confused2:

Funny, my circa 1992 red 5-gal plastic gas can with no EPA nozzle works flawlessly to this day, never a drip of gas is lost. I'm a picky dude, & I'm tellin' you, not a drip.

 

[beenthere]

Now it is running fuel out the vents that were there to gurgle air back in.

What is an EPA nozzle?

I'll try to look it up.

 

[beppington]

Now it is running fuel out the vents that were there to gurgle air back in.

Maybe that's true. Interesting though that it didn't leak fuel thru those the first 2 times I filled with these modified cans.

What is an EPA nozzle?

My own homemade term for the nozzles with the spring-loaded button you have to push & hold while pouring, required I believe on all fuel cans these days(?). Here's a pic:

 

[crazyal]

I have a couple of jugs that are made by the same company and look identical but the spouts can't be switched. One nozzle is too small to screw onto the top of one of the jugs. Another will screw on but leaks. Try swapping the nozzles and see if the problem fixes itself. When I go to the gas station I tuck each nozzle under the handle of the can it fits best otherwise they get mixed up.