Carrying reserve fuel

Clubbs

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My son's CJ7 is his daily. Commute to high school is about 40 miles one way. This is also our trail rig it has a Mopar 440, 4.56:1 gears and runs 40" Mickey Thompson MTZ's for road use (42 TSL's in the woods). Has a 15 gallon fuel cell in the back. He's been carrying a 5 gallon can with him for reserve. Would rather his reserve fuel be external. I'm googling and can find the dink overlander 1 or 2 gallon "look at my adventure ready poser" fuel cans. Anyone have a better solution with at least 5 gallons of reserve? Be fine with an old metal army can, but cant find a mount.

Keep the "buy a Honda commuter car" mamby pamby granola crunching suggestions to yourself - Mopar big block on 40's is legit cool
 
Keep a Toyota? Lol jk 😆 but even 2 gallons should get ya to a place for fuel or safety. Honestly you should look into a bigger fuel cell. If you can’t I hate to say it but he or you had to be better at mapping stations or just not driving it. I run the motobilt cell behind my seat
 
Would this work for a mount?


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Caver Dave said:
Is "reserve" code for can't be bothered to keep it full, even if it means doing it twice day? 🤔
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No, he's fine swinging into the gas station after school everyday. We're pretty remote at the house and often the nearest gas station would be 12 miles the wrong direction. So having an additional 5 gallons on the vehicle often means the difference from taking the most logical route or having to go get gas and then proceeding to the destination and topping up along the way.

He also races sailboats, coaches youth sailing, and competes at various events within 60 miles with the jeep. Longer distances involves more parental support and we'll take the Cummins for those regattas. But his local regattas are also in remote areas and towing reduces mileage - again another 5 gallons generally gets him to the next gas station.

He's never been stranded, is quite resourceful, but has HAD to use his 5 gallon reserve twice, and dumped it in on several occasions just to be sure he wasn't on the side of the highway doing the refuel.
 
shawn said:
This is what I have:

Wavian Fuel Cans | The Finest Steel Jerry Cans In The World

The original NATO Jerry Can — quality steel fuel cans and accessories from Wavian USA. Flexible spouts, safety nozzles, gaskets, fuel can mounts, holders and more.
wavianusa.com
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I've got a couple Euro-style cans (actually came in/with Pinzgaurs imported down in GA decades ago) that I like better than US "Jerry cans"... the Euro's short spout makes pouring better. OTOH, *neither* are worth a shit hitting a fuel filler without the additional longer spouts
 
I've got a plastic Scepter 5 gallon military fuel can that I'm pretty happy with. I think I paid like $80 for the can and the donkey dick fuel spout.
 
What year cj is it? You can get a 21gal for most cjs in the $300something range, a larger tank in this situation is the best solution in my opinion. I'd personally get a Camry for that money though
 
braxton357 said:
What year cj is it? You can get a 21gal for most cjs in the $300something range, a larger tank in this situation is the best solution in my opinion. I'd personally get a Camry for that money though
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It's an 85. Had the 20 gallon factory poly tank in it originally. But after 1 tons and wheelbase stretch that tank got deleted and in went the fuel cell.

Owned 96 Camry (married into it) back in the early 2000's. Absolute worst vehicle I've ever owned. Leaked every fluid, yes even gas and brake fluid, all the door handles inside and out broke off, key cylinder locked up, and it would randomly shut off while driving. Sold it with 140k miles on it. I know they're supposed to run forever and be low maintenance, but that certainly wasn't my experience. First and last "foreign" car for me. And yes I realize everything is relatively foreign these days, but I do the best I can to buy from Detroit based companies well one of them anyway...
 
Haha that's a lot of gas to burn through. 80 miles per day divided by 8 miles to the gallon equals 10 gallons per day times the price of regular gas $3.33 equals $33.30 per day times 20 days of school per month = $666 per month :beer: tune in next time for more satanic math classes. :laughing: I mean get the boy a 90's grand cherokee and ride semi cool.
 
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