Jerry Can Options

I carry a 5 litre emergency container, red plastic/polyurethane.
I also have a 50 litre RED polyurethane tank in the tub of my dual cab. No problem with plastic diesel containers.

If you can get onto some 10L Rheem jerrycans, Chris, they are the go. Any colour you like, as long as it's black, but they are indestructible.

Bob

I have taken a couple of yellow plastic Supercheap jerrycans around Oz and been on the usual rough tracks etc. No problems with them leaking or splitting. And you don't have to worry about flaking rust or paint contaminating the fuel. To keep costs down you can always use a fuel siphon hose to transfer the fuel instead of pouring it in.

What about some flexible 10L fuel containers? A bit more expensive, but save a lot of space when not needed. I ordered 10 directly from china a while back ... more than I need but it was a case of 'buy in bulk and save'. I'll get organised and offload some one day. Google '10 Litre Touring Bladder' to see what I mean.

I always used steel cans until recently. The newer ones are garbage and corrode internally so now I use quality plastic Jerry's and change them as soon as they start showing wear.

I guess you have not looked hard for metal ones - try Bunnings - that is a link to the ones they sell.

Having said that there is nothing wrong with the plastic ones but the one I have has cracked its lid.

Proquip do 10L metal Jerry cans. I always use Proquip, though I prefer the plastic ones.
10l steel jerry cans

Also you can use a tanamai pump like this which uses compressed air. I have one of these.

Lastly there are battery transfer pumps on ebay etc.

Put it on a camp table and use a siphon hose?

Cheers, Baz - The Landy

Hi Chris
Suggest that you obtain a filter funnel as well. I use a "Mr Funnel" which will not only filter particulate matter but also water from any fuel. You may suspect that being able to filter out any water would make the flow rate very low, however this is not the case. You can also use the filter when filling from a bowser at a fuel stop. Recommended.

Like Boo, I use the ProQuip 10L Metal Jerry Cans. Can't go wrong. They are military grade and won't rust. Ivan has likely gone to Bunnings (like someone suggested) and got the Chinese rubbish they are now peddling. Absolutely terrible cans, that rust within weeks and and have all sorts of internal issues. I see now Bunnings are selling Chinese plastic cans too!! They should be ashamed pushing this trash on to their customers!

Chris. When I drove the Canning I determined I'd need to carry 100 extra litres of diesel requiring the purchase of five 20 litre drums that I would probably never use again. A total of about $200. By luck I had kept every plastic 20 litre engine oil drum I had bought oil in over the years. I figured if the plastic could withstand engine oil it could withstand diesel fuel. Besides, that's all we ever used when I was a maintenance fitter. Now some people will howl me down for this but I've never had any trouble using these containers. I had to carry 3 of the 'drums' inside the car so made a light gauge, sheet metal, liquid proof box made that would hold the drums snuggly and hold any diesel should a leak occur. The other 2 drums went on the roof rack. You could do this same thing with 10 litre containers. It's also probably a good idea to invest in one the aforementioned filter funnels.

Not that this is endorsed by any means by authorities.

check your cross country load rating first !

have seen a bloke use couple of outboard engine fuel tanks (40-45 l capacity) mounted them to roof rack on 150prado he then had a length of fuel hose (black low pressure be ok ) couple of dry break fittings fitted to fuel line, get them from BCF or similar tanks will have one fitted as well.

fabricated a fuel cap that he could screw on fuel filler with short length of hose dangling into filler neck about 3 inches long

he then simply sucked abit on hose get airlock out and let gravity run fuel into tanks via modified fuel cap - he mentioned he even drove with it like this to save time when on road.

Not a flinch from blue shirts either