Anyone had this kind of rust in just a year and a half?
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If it’s rusting inside too then you would probably be better off starting with new ones as they last a long time, the midwest cans at HF are pretty good and not overly expensive.
Starting with a rusty container is setting up potential problems in the near time. Sure they might hold fuel now, but for how long is a different question they are already compromised.
Rust particles in the fuel = clogged fuel filters or worse.
My green ones that I got from that Land Rover mail order place ten years ago have been stored inside an Action Packer, outdoors. They have absolutely no sign of any paint degeneration except where they rub on the metal frame of my roof rack. Was your stored in a hostile/corrosive environment? Hard to believe that only took 1.5 years to get that rusty.
Yes, it could be road salt. That’s a good point. It destroys everything else it touches up here. But I’ve never seen it happen so fast.I'm 8 miles from the Pacific Ocean. All of my cans live outside, I haven't bought any since well before the pandemic, and none of them are that rusty.
Could they have gotten road salt on them?
MISF paints all of his fuel cans with POR-15, that might be an option. He even fixed a custom fab'd fuel tank that a tow truck driver caused a small leak in, with POR. Not really what it was made for, but it is his own vehicle.