Dangerous Gas Can Mod?

Without comment on the vent safety aspects, the first question would be compatibility of the rubber material with gasoline.

 

Not seeing how it could cause a problem with stoppering hole. It should blow out in pressure gets high. Most rubbers aren't cool with fuel though. Needs to be nitrile or viton.

 

cork?

 

I'm so grateful a raccoon who is really stupid, fat and overfed by even stupider humans chewed a hole in my old gas can in the forest next to my woodchipper a few years ago... The type of plastic gas cans they've been selling in recent years work so much better, never leak in the usual places spots and have no vent hole that needs to be plugged to prevent leaks because its integrated into the main outflow valve.

 

About the 'rubber gloves', try a small test, say one finger pocket, away from the house.

It may not be easy to find but a glass stopper is it is pretty well impervious to anything..

Bob Wilson

 

Fuel lines are rubber, at worst, it will swell and block the hole even better.
Another fix is a short piece of fuel hose that will just fit in the hole and a full thread screw and nut that just fits in the hose.
Tighten the screw once it's through the hose until it just holds the nut, push in the hole and tighten the screw, that will pull the nut up inside the hose and plug the hole no problems .....

T1 Terry

 

I seem to recall a YouTube, to create a practical vent, guy drilled a hole on the back shoulder of the can, pushed in a tire valve, the innards removed, with valve cap in place.

 

I'm for metal gas cans. They do not outgas as plastic allows VOC's to permeate through the walls.

Yellow retro fit snap plastic plugs are available, should one want to vent the can for easy pouring.

A smooth 1/2 inch hole is easily droll through either a metal or plastic can.

The Yellow vent easily snaps in.

 

If the stopper isn't regularly being pulled out, I'd just cut a finger or so off a disposable nitrile glove, and stuff the stopper into them.

There are several types of 'rubber' used on the car, and likely none of it is natural rubber.

Rubber Chemical Resistance, Rubber Chemical Compatibility, Page 3 - Mykin Inc

The bolt and hose solution is more permanent than the glove finger and stopper. I'll just add a couple of washers will prevent the nut and bolt head from slipping into the hose.

As long as the fuel doesn't touch the rubber, it should last a fair time. Fumes will eventually mean needing a new stem.

 

I had a small, one gallon jug whose yellow snap on cap broke off and got lost. Used a wooden golf tee that I would shove down into the hole; easy to pull when pouring. Used it that way for decades.

 

This video's pretty good:

He provides an Amazon link for vent caps, in description Basically four mods:

1. Remove child-lock tab from spout cap.
2. Remove spring from spout
3. Add vent
4. Remove strainer basket inside can neck

 

@cyberpriusII

Allow me to make your day a bit better!!
I absolutely HATE the new pour spouts and have had 3 of them break in the last 2 years.

Replacement "old style" pour spouts are available at Tractor Supply for about 10 bucks.

gas can pour spout at Tractor Supply Co.

 

I live near Seattle... Let me know how to sneak in to his garage and get it back for you? You can't so easily give up on a 40 year old gas can!

 

I got an elephant that can calm any guard dog down... Of course the neighbors might have doorbell cameras and the elephant hates drawing attention to itself. I'll have decline the heist, unless your brother lives in a rural area and not the city?

 

Buy once.
Cry Once.

Jerrycan - Wikipedia.

https://bobistheoilguy.com/forums/threads/best-jerry-can-and-where-to-buy.365590/


(Disclosure)
I still have a short dozen 'freedom cans' or Pre-Ban "Blitz" gas cans.
I live in hurricane country so gas cans are a little more than a convenient way to keep line-trimmer gas handy or a play-pretty to keep on the back of a jeep that's never seen ACTUAL mud..


Going forward my intentions are to do what the military does......