spare gas can

[Deuce007]

This is kind of a dumb question but how to you attach the spare gas can(jerry can) to the gas can holder on the drivers side of the truck. I am just wondering how to attach the strap to the can to keep it from flying off down the highway. pics would be great!

 

[emmado22]

run it thru the handles

 

[Deuce007]

I can do that but the way the strap is placed I would have to have the can sitting on the strap to go up and around it.

 

[73m819]

there 2 types of straps, a 1 piece that goes though the strap slots and UNDER the holder, a 2 piece that attaches to each strap slot that is on the holder

 

[eagle4g63]

Sounds to me like you have your strap installed in the holder wrong. I hope these pics help with the routing of the strap. The first 2 are of the holder on the back of my deuce so as to show the bottom of the strap easier.

 

[Deuce007]

Perfect! Thanks a lot, thats exactally what I needed to see!

 

[Hoefler]

Here is mine.

 

[DeucesWild11]

eagle, is that green gas can mounted behind the rear tire? Was that a stock set up or did you add? I would be too nervous that I would back into something with it or have someone hit me and boom.. Just asking not criticizing..

 

[Josh]

On a side note. I leave my jerrycans full of WMO when they are on my truck. That way if some jacks it and dumps it in there rig....hopefully it will fudge if all up. And the deuce likes WMO the same as diesel.

 

[maccus]

eagle, is that green gas can mounted behind the rear tire? Was that a stock set up or did you add? I would be too nervous that I would back into something with it or have someone hit me and boom.. Just asking not criticizing..

Cans mounted on a M109 van. The van metal holding the flaps on is shorter than on a M35A2/3.

 

[eagle4g63]

I have a pair of them back there, I put them there but did see them mounted like that many times and I believe a few on original military vehicles. Anyway like said I don't carry fuel in them, motor oil mix, which is what I run in my truck(plus the laugh factor if anyone tries to siphon them for their truck)

Anyway no worries about getting hit and blowing up!! first I am 12 feet away from them and second have you ever hit a gas can......it just breaks and spills all the gas-no big boom!! In order for it to blow you would need one or more things to happen.......enough compression(contained) in order to detonate(like in your motor) or you would need a large enough spark(after it has spilled all over and mixed with oxygen) I have tired many times to make gas tanks blow up.....it is actually very hard to do.

The worse I can see happening is a really bad accident, somehow involving flames, and my cans get ruptured and spill all the gas out and it travels to the flame and then WHOOSH larger flame that goes out when the fuel is burned up.

Again, all this isn't going to matter as I said I don't carry "gas" or "diesel" in them. When summer comes about I may even get one to swap out back there and fill it with water, especially if I get the second tank mounted that I want.

 

[caliber1]

That's what I was thinking of doing, putting WMO or WVO in those cans. Mark them #2diesel and hope someone siphons for a newer ULSD truck.

I have a pair of them back there, I put them there but did see them mounted like that many times and I believe a few on original military vehicles. Anyway like said I don't carry fuel in them, motor oil mix, which is what I run in my truck(plus the laugh factor if anyone tries to siphon them for their truck)

Anyway no worries about getting hit and blowing up!! first I am 12 feet away from them and second have you ever hit a gas can......it just breaks and spills all the gas-no big boom!! In order for it to blow you would need one or more things to happen.......enough compression(contained) in order to detonate(like in your motor) or you would need a large enough spark(after it has spilled all over and mixed with oxygen) I have tired many times to make gas tanks blow up.....it is actually very hard to do.

The worse I can see happening is a really bad accident, somehow involving flames, and my cans get ruptured and spill all the gas out and it travels to the flame and then WHOOSH larger flame that goes out when the fuel is burned up.

Again, all this isn't going to matter as I said I don't carry "gas" or "diesel" in them. When summer comes about I may even get one to swap out back there and fill it with water, especially if I get the second tank mounted that I want.

 

[gerrykan]

This photo was taken in France in WW2.
The men are carrying loaves of bread to be delivered near the front lines.

 

[indy4x4fab]

I know someone on here has posted up pictures of a spare jerry can mount on the passenger side of an m809s truck, but I cant remember how they made it move-able so you could still get the battery boxes out.

 

[eagle4g63]

The passenger side spare gas can mount is kind of easy. You weld a hinge to the bottom of the can holder along the outside edge, bolt it to the step so the mount can hinge out and down, drill a whole thru the door in line with one of the rear holes on the holder, weld a nut to the inside of the door, run a bolt thru the holder into said nut to hold the holder from flipping. Use the holder as usual, when you need to get inside remove the bolt swing down holder. Not my pic, not positive who it was(I think darwin t) that posted it before.


Anyway as to the fear of blowing up with the gas can on the back......you do have a much larger target strapped right at the back of the cab on the passengers side(the main tank) and it has obviously been hit on a few trucks here so.....

 

[indy4x4fab]

The passenger side spare gas can mount is kind of easy. You weld a hinge to the bottom of the can holder along the outside edge, bolt it to the step so the mount can hinge out and down, drill a whole thru the door in line with one of the rear holes on the holder, weld a nut to the inside of the door, run a bolt thru the holder into said nut to hold the holder from flipping. Use the holder as usual, when you need to get inside remove the bolt swing down holder. Not my pic, not positive who it was(I think darwin t) that posted it before.


Anyway as to the fear of blowing up with the gas can on the back......you do have a much larger target strapped right at the back of the cab on the passengers side(the main tank) and it has obviously been hit on a few trucks here so.....

http://www.steelsoldiers.com/deuce-...ling-passenger-side-jerry-can-holder-m35.html

 

[gerrykan]

Another WW2 photo of jerrycans mounted on the rear mudguards.

 

[maxxplanck]

I also have a set on the back of my deuce

 

[ODdave]

Rich, She lets you park it on the cement?

 

[DeucesWild11]

Wow a stock option.. interesting and good points with the location being farther away from the cab, with diesel and or a WMO mix that would be allot less flamable than gas..