Help with yellow diesel cans, please.

[Mike_S]

Bill--The fuel filter came from a JD 425 garden tractor or something similar. The plexiglass ring was cut from scrap with a hole just large enough for the filter to drop into. Mike S.

 

[Mike_S]

Bill--here is a photo of the two pieces assembled. Mike S.

 

[Mike_S]

Bill--here is a photo showing the filter in use as diesel is poured through it into the 4400's fuel tank. Mike S.

 

[blurrybill]

Golfgar,

I comb my hair with a fork; isn't that how they're supposed to be used?

Okay, so I want the right color for my fuel tanks -- not to be too psychological here (can I help it?), but do you think it's because the yellow and green are used so much together? Maybe my tractor will be offended by some red cans with stenciled lettering. Oh, my gosh, Freud may have been right.....

Bill

 

[blurrybill]

Mike,

VERY nice setup. Now, about marketing this product? Between you and Harv, you guys could develop an inexpensive, but effective system. Now, more questions: How did you cut the ring; where did you get the material? etc.

I didn't think this post would generate this much interest, but I've learned a great deal, including the need for filtering diesel fuel. Thanks.

Bill

 

[Mike_S]

Bill--the Plexiglass was out of some scrap that I had laying around in my shop--there is no real reason that the outside has to be round since it is removed after each use. I used a bandsaw to cut the outside and a scroll saw to cut the inside. Other materials would work such as polycarbonate or lexan--I just want the tractor's fuel inlet covered so the wind and/or gravity does not introduce dust or leaves, etc. into the fuel aorund the filter. Come to think of it, large Honda gasoline engines have an even finer filter, but the one that I pictured takes out any visible impurities and the real fuel filter removes the real small stuff. I wish I could weld--plan on taking a course in wire welding at a nearby community college when my retirement is less busy. Mike S.

 

[Slamfire]

They don't let me have forks.

 

[MDNick]

My dad has a ag diesel tractor. He has 2 250 gl above ground fuel tanks (unleaded and diesel). Gravity feed into whatever you are filling. Shut off valve on the tank and a nozzle similar to a gas station on the hose. Leroy (check my profile) was having major running issues. Would be fine for a while, then just quit, like you pulled the shut-off handle. Did the usual, changed filter. No difference. Drained tank, no difference, took tank off, drained, cleaned, washed, dried, back on tractor, fresh fuel, no difference. Etc., Etc. Finally took all tubing off everywhere from the tank to the injection pump and found a small bug carcass, just the exoskeleton bone structure. Reached the conclusion that it was living in the nozzle and went into the tank once at fill up. He now has a piece of screen hose clamped to the nozzle.

Just something else to consider. Especially for the non-filterers.

 

[Mainah]

Also, spilled diesel fuel or kerosene draws and kills black flies (the Maine state bird) like crazy...was thinking about splashing a little on instead of repellant *g*...NOT. Last time I filled up my 'bota I didn't wipe up the spill...it was covered with the little varmints (dead) in the morning.

 

[PitbullMidwest]

<font color=blue>Unfortunately, teenagers don't read what is written on a container before they use it</font color=blue>

Amen to that! My son dumped a couple gallons of his grandpa's "kerosene only" into his Explorer. For father's day last year he bought his grandpa a blue kerosene can. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[MajMac392]

Okay after all the joking probably nobody remembers what this post started as right? I have found the yellow diesel fuel cans, actually plastic, at both Autozone and Wal-mart. Autozone, in southern N.H. may have been seasonal because when I went back they were all gone. Several months later I found one in the N.Windham, ME Wally store and it seems like they have had them ever since. I don't remember the price but it was under $10 I believe. I was by there last night and several were on the shelf.

 

[wdn]

Me too. Pep Boys and all the other auto stores here have red cans, most have blue kerosene cans but none have the yellow. So I use the blue cans to store #2 diesel oil.

To pump fuel I use the battery operated siphon pump from Home Depot. It costs $11 and runs on 2 D cells. It empties a 5 gallon can in a minute or two.

 

[Soundguy]

'boing' I see that I'm running out to HD today!

Soundguy

<font color=blue>"To pump fuel I use the battery operated siphon pump from Home Depot. It costs $11 and runs on 2 D cells. It empties a 5 gallon can in a minute or two."

 

[rdln]

Filled my truck up last night and noticed a sign on the diesel pump which read "yellow or green cans only, attendant has the right not to turn pumps on or stop pump"

I asked cashier about that and she said it was Michigan law. And I thought the different colors were just an organization thing.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Big ol'e funnel with filter, around $8 plus shipping. Order on-line!

<A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=USPlastic&category%5Fname=Funnels&product%5Fid=Funnel+With+Splash+Ring> Big ol'e funnel</A>

 

[MDNY]

wdn,

What part # did you buy from Home Depot. The batter operated pump sounds good to me.