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We were thinking about fire safety at home, and I decided I did not want to keep all my spare gas in the garage underneath my bedroom. Got this outdoor storage box, and put it at the back corner of our tiny lot. Perfectly holds 4 VP jugs...
We got a box similar to that for pool equipment and it leaks when it rains. Assuming you are storing empty jugs, I'd leave the caps a bit loose due to the prior comment about heat. Sealed plastic gas cans in the sun will blow up like a balloon.
We found the only rain tight boxes to be the ones where the lid curves over the edges and it does not rely on a seal to keep rainwater out.
Even the tiny residual amount of fuel left in a jug expands a lot and causes a good jug to bulge. I carry two fuel jugs in a bracket mounted to the tongue of my trailer and many times I have to "bleed" the air out of them to pull them out of the bracket - that is how much they expand.
I store my fuel in a garden shed. Better than the house burning down!
I’m assuming this is a different octane fuel that you use in your DD (e.g., 100 octane or something), or your DD is a diesel...if not, why store your extra fuel at all, couldn’t you simply fill your DD with the extra fuel and store empty fuel jugs? That’s what I do, any extra 93 octane fuel goes in the wife’s DD (mine’s a diesel) and I store empty cans.
I’m assuming this is a different octane fuel that you use in your DD (e.g., 100 octane or something), or your DD is a diesel...if not, why store your extra fuel at all, couldn’t you simply fill your DD with the extra fuel and store empty fuel jugs? That’s what I do, any extra 93 octane fuel goes in the wife’s DD (mine’s a diesel) and I store empty cans.
Slightly OT, the sign of a good weekend is having no extra track car fuel at all. One of the positive things about towing with a gasser is, if there is extra track car fuel, it goes in the truck just before leaving the track for home. On a bad weekend, there is enough gas for the truck to make it all the way home without making a fuel stop.
Slightly OT, the sign of a good weekend is having no extra track car fuel at all. One of the positive things about towing with a gasser is, if there is extra track car fuel, it goes in the truck just before leaving the track for home. On a bad weekend, there is enough gas in the truck to make it all the way home without making a fuel stop.
I never leave fuel in the cans.
Agreed 100%, my DD = tow vehicle but it’s a diesel. Any extra track fuel (I strive to have zero extra fuel...LOL) goes in the other car. I store empty cans. I can see storing a gallon or so of fuel at home for lawn equipment (or snow blowers in the off season etc), but those are the in shed, well ventilated, slightly loose cap (but still tight enough to prevent accidental spills) and shaded but never in the garage/house. Hey, I’d rather ask “Who burnt my He-shed?” than “The roof, the roof is on fire!”
Agreed 100%, my DD = tow vehicle but it’s a diesel. Any extra track fuel (I strive to have zero extra fuel...LOL) goes in the other car. I store empty cans. I can see storing a gallon or so of fuel at home for lawn equipment (or snow blowers in the off season etc), but those are the in shed, well ventilated, slightly loose cap (but still tight enough to prevent accidental spills) and shaded but never in the garage/house. Hey, I’d rather ask “Who burnt my He-shed?” than “The roof, the roof is on fire!”
I make a habit of keeping the fuel jugs filled. Living in a resort community, gas is stupid expensive, and the nearest box store with cheap gas is 35 miles away.. I always re-fill them on the way home from the track.
They stay outside, shaded by the garage, far from the house.
Extra fuel in the jug is how my law mower, generator, and yard tools run on $10 a gal race fuel!
Normally I dump everything into my car but sometimes the car is at the shop and I have fuel over the winter. I'd like to believe my snowblower throws the snow that much further from race fuel but I know that isn't happening.
04-28-2020, 03:48 PM
Fuel jug storage at home
