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Soft Bag Fuel Container
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Otony
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I was walking through Walmart today, waiting on a prescription, when I saw that they sell both 1/2 gallon and 1 gallon insulated jugs made of stainless steel.
The 1 gallon jugs have a wide mouth with a cap that has a secondary cap for pouring. There is a similar wide mouth version of the 1/2 gallon as well. But there is also a narrower mouth 1/2 gallon jug that has a simple screw-on cap. It is wide enough to accept a nozzle at a gas station.
At 14 bucks and change it is inexpensive enough to test out whether or not the cap and gasket will hold up to gasoline. Sturdy as all get out, might work perfectly if you don’t mind stowing it in a crate.
The 1 gallon jugs have a wide mouth with a cap that has a secondary cap for pouring. There is a similar wide mouth version of the 1/2 gallon as well. But there is also a narrower mouth 1/2 gallon jug that has a simple screw-on cap. It is wide enough to accept a nozzle at a gas station.
At 14 bucks and change it is inexpensive enough to test out whether or not the cap and gasket will hold up to gasoline. Sturdy as all get out, might work perfectly if you don’t mind stowing it in a crate.
If you're talking about the ones with Ozark Trail branding, I returned a 1/2 gal one for leaking water. Definitely wouldn't trust that lid with gasoline. Most of the containers discussed here are technically not approved for transporting gasoline, and they state that in their fine print. Not legal advice, but whatever fuel choices you make, do try to be safe.
Otony
Member
Yes, that is exactly the ones I saw. From what I’ve seen online, virtually all these style jugs seem to have leaking issues to some extent.
Really, given the number of issues that could arise, I suppose a simple 1 gallon plastic gas can is pretty much ideal other than bulkiness. There are conversion kits online to reverse them back to simpler style caps if you so choose. Hard to beat the price, and I suppose safer anything I might MacGyver……..
Kev250R
Well-known member
That's another reason why I like the MSR Fuel containers is because they are designed/intended to carry fuel, albeit not gasoline but of the two I have the gaskets have not failed and one of them is ~10 years old. That said I store them empty.
Kev250R
Well-known member
All this talk of fuel containers reminds me of a story (no one should be surprised).
In the winter I ride Quads with a group of friends out in the Mojave. We're all busy with work and family commitments so we generally meet for a day ride in the desert North of Barstow. Our typical ride is 70-100 miles, in the winter with short days we're moving!
We all carry extra fuel in some manner. For these rides I ride my TRX450R which gets decent mileage but I still carry a MSR Fuel Bottle as a back-up to a Koplin gas can which attaches to a rear rack I modified for such use. A couple of years ago we invited a new guy to our rides who had a DS650 Quad which just drank fuel! His first ride with us we'd barely made it half-way through our route when he'd exhausted all his extra gas and mine! Following that ride he made some changes to his Quad which helped it's efficiency but he also added an over-sized tail bag so he wouldn't have to wear a back-pack. This Tail Bag covered most of the rear of his Quad and we joked that he could carry a spare engine in it if he wanted! He also mentioned he was carrying plenty of extra fuel now.
We took his word for it and went on another ride. This time his Quad ran *much* better, used a lot less fuel (though still more then the rest of us) and everything seemed fine. At a trail-side stop for water our friend pulled-out a paper bag with cookies his wife had made the night before for all of us. We each took one and quietly took a bite then spat them out because they had a distinct petroleum taste to them!
Turns-out our friends solution for carrying extra fuel was to fill a couple of small 1 gallon plastic gas cans like most people use for their lawn equipment. He said he'd straped them down but they must have shifted and they poured gas all over everything in his bag. That day he had enough fuel to finish the ride but now we all had to share our lunches with him.
A couple of years later we all went to a BBQ at this guys house and his wife noted she had made cookies. Before I could stop him one of the guys in our group asked if they were flammable LOL!
In the winter I ride Quads with a group of friends out in the Mojave. We're all busy with work and family commitments so we generally meet for a day ride in the desert North of Barstow. Our typical ride is 70-100 miles, in the winter with short days we're moving!
We all carry extra fuel in some manner. For these rides I ride my TRX450R which gets decent mileage but I still carry a MSR Fuel Bottle as a back-up to a Koplin gas can which attaches to a rear rack I modified for such use. A couple of years ago we invited a new guy to our rides who had a DS650 Quad which just drank fuel! His first ride with us we'd barely made it half-way through our route when he'd exhausted all his extra gas and mine! Following that ride he made some changes to his Quad which helped it's efficiency but he also added an over-sized tail bag so he wouldn't have to wear a back-pack. This Tail Bag covered most of the rear of his Quad and we joked that he could carry a spare engine in it if he wanted! He also mentioned he was carrying plenty of extra fuel now.
We took his word for it and went on another ride. This time his Quad ran *much* better, used a lot less fuel (though still more then the rest of us) and everything seemed fine. At a trail-side stop for water our friend pulled-out a paper bag with cookies his wife had made the night before for all of us. We each took one and quietly took a bite then spat them out because they had a distinct petroleum taste to them!
Turns-out our friends solution for carrying extra fuel was to fill a couple of small 1 gallon plastic gas cans like most people use for their lawn equipment. He said he'd straped them down but they must have shifted and they poured gas all over everything in his bag. That day he had enough fuel to finish the ride but now we all had to share our lunches with him.
A couple of years later we all went to a BBQ at this guys house and his wife noted she had made cookies. Before I could stop him one of the guys in our group asked if they were flammable LOL!
