How to impurities out of a plastic jerry can?

Thanks David,

Now it's making me wonder what the fuel filter copped during this trip, if the reside in the jerry cans in anything to go by.


Cheers,


OzTroopie

Hi Serendipity,


Thanks for your suggestions, they're fuel cans however, your ideas re the water cans will also come in handy.

Safe travels,


OzTroopie

Thanks Axle,

Looks like it might need a bit of a blasting to get it off. Any diesel additive's you'd recommend using for storage in jerry cans?


Cheers,


OzTroopie

Fresh clean diesel should last a very long time in a sealed container..like years..unlike unleaded which is getting dodgy arround 30 days.

If you are worried about diesel bug, which is a mixture of a couple of algee and bacteria, there are a couple of products arround that actually work.

Remember diesel bug needs time, moisture, air and warmth to thrive......keeping ya fuel turned over, drums full, in a cool dry place is what is recommended.

As far as additives

Fuel Doctor..is one.....castrol removed their product off the market and now offer fuel doctor rebranded, because it was very effective and theirs was not.

Chemtech Diesel Power is the other popular brand.

Don't get all twisted and out of shape over the stuff...best to clean it out..... but there will always be muck in fuel, that is why we have fuel filters.

OH..if ya gona use water to clean fuel containers, rinse them out well and drain as much water out as you can then put a good healthy slosh of metho in.... the water will disolve in the metho......tip as much of that out as you can...then a good helthy amount of the correct fuel..the metho will disolve in the fuel....then tip that out

Any liquid container will not store well, if it is wet and the lid is on....anything that can grow in there will....so best to dry out ya empty containers well, before you put the lids on for long term storage.

cheers