CARB compliant gas cans

[lawdog]

Anybody use these new fangled gas cans? Good grief what a pain in the butt! I tried to go buy a replacement spout for my wedco can the other day and can't find anything but these new style "safer" spouts. The Government bungles up another otherwise fine product. How can you fill a gas tank with these things without three hands?!?!?! ARRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHH!

[deadeye]

Ya I remember getting them in at Oreillys. People were really hot about it. Not much we could do though. I am glad I had loaded up on the old ones for my trips up north to remote lakes.

We actually had to send the old style cans back to be melted down or whatever they did with them.

I don't quite understand why they did that but maybe something to do with fuel evaporation?

[bobbymalone]

I dunno, I have got three of them and don't have much of a trouble. Maybe your cans are different than mine. I can one hand it.

[Loose]

Them look ridiculous, I thought the vent less ones suck them look even worse!

[lawdog]

I tried to buy an old style replacement spout on e-beigh and it went for 10 plus 5 shipping! That shows you how bad people want to use the old stuff. You can buy a whole new gas can for 20...

[fish with teeth]

i wish you could still get the old meatal cans, nothing beat those. easy to use and durable as can be. i hate having to stand there and hold the can for 5 minutes while it gurgles and struggles to get air in and gas out.

[lawdog]

I searched around and lots of guys are finding ways to cheat the poor to no venting you get from these that slows your poor so bad. Best idea I've heard is to drill a 3/4" hole and put in a valve stem for a tire and then screw out the middle of the valve stem so its an open air exchanger. Put on the black cap when you aren't using it and you have a pretty decently closed can but can still actually poor out of it without having to have six days to get a can empty...

[DUCKAHOLIC]

yeah agree they suck to use... the goverment needs to stay out of somethings that they have no clue what there doing, like the cash for clunkers that was a joke just like the gas cans!

[Transporter]

They are a pain, I still get the old style in Canada. If you or someone you know is going over the border, Canadian Tire is everywhere, have them pick up a new can or a replacement spout. Customs won't even raise an eyebrow to a gas can.