Rehab for a Jerry Can

[Dizzy]

I want to get my Jerry can back in service. What make/vintage is my can?

I have no cap or spout. Can anyone point to a part or parts (cap/spout) to get it back in service, I'm a lazy shopper.

Do these things vent like the tank in my 40, if so where, the top of the lip where the cap threads and there is a hole?

 

[JohnnyC]

No markings on the bottom?

Mil can had bottom marks

 

[Living in the Past]

No markings on the bottom?

Mil can had bottom marks

Plus a production date. Have a few of these.

Pretty sure all are dated to the seventies.

 

[JohnnyC]

I have a can from 53’

And a later non military from mid 80’s that was a public service issued can ... no markings with US

Blitz cans are stamped blitz as well

You ‘can’ measure the throat of the can and call blitz for a replacement

Yours looks standard size

 

[Jonathan Hanson]

Well, my advice would be to give that can away and buy a superior NATO can, the direct descendant of the Wehrmacht "jerry" can! When the U.S. finally got hold of a German fuel can in WWII, rather than simply copying it as the Brits smartly did, we decided to save money and substitute the crimped bottom seam for the much more durable perimeter welded seam, and a cheap threaded spout opening for the much better cammed lid of the jerry can. Both were retrograde steps.

 

[John McVicker]

^^^

This.

 

[Living in the Past]

Well, my advice would be to give that can away and buy a superior NATO can, the direct descendant of the Wehrmacht "jerry" can! When the U.S. finally got hold of a German fuel can in WWII, rather than simply copying it as the Brits smartly did, we decided to save money and substitute the crimped bottom seam for the much more durable perimeter welded seam, and a cheap threaded spout opening for the much better cammed lid of the jerry can. Both were retrograde steps.

Have no problem with the base. The designed allow easy stacking. A spout could pour directly out of with a plus especially on this cruiser.

Interesting Toyota follow the US design for their gas cans.

 

[Mark W]

The american GI can with the full size spout (not the downsized one introduced with the unleaded fuel era, will dump five gallons in about 30 seconds. The Nato can takes several minutes IIRC. If you are being shot at as you fill your M35 to get the hell outta Dodge, or just standing outside your Cruiser on the trail in a cold and windy snow storm... that higher fill speed is great!. And the flip lock spot is on and off in a second and seals completely too.

The NATO can does seal better, but with good gaskets and any sort of "tool" to get the cap tight, the GI cans seal too. The steel GI cabs seemed to rust worse. But I did love the lipped bottom that let you secure them in the old Con-fer "sand racks".


Mark...

 

[JohnnyC]

X2 mark and johns comments

Here’s my can on conferr can holder

 

[Dizzy]

DOT-5L
USMC
20-5-83

 

[JohnnyC]

Us Marine Corp can

20 gauge
5 gallon
1983

 

[Dizzy]

So, shop for a Blitz cap/spout?

Respect to those who served.

 

[middlecalf]

So, shop for a Blitz cap/spout?

I have shopped locally, online and in away locations. The only time I’ve seen the large (non-unleaded) metal flexible fill spouts that fit these original cans (mine are Blitz) is at the Army/Navy surplus store in Arvada, Co. about three years ago while visiting my brothers. I didn’t buy one (or more) then because I figured I could find one back home at the A/N store here. But no, and their NLA in Arvada. So I bought a couple of those Rothco unleaded ones from the online A/N store. One disintegrated and the other sucks, it leaks and takes 10-min to empty with lots of tilting to allow air to escape. If anyone knows where you can get an original spout I’m all ears.

 

[skidplate]

I don't know for certain, but I've heard that a cap from a 55 gal. drum will fit the jerry can. You could pick up some rubber gasket material from the hardware store to make a gasket.

 

[Living in the Past]

I know I have three different types. The small unleaded thread in style. Believe two of the large thread in style and one large stopper type. I've had to silver solder a few of the thread in style at the base. Once that is done they are good to go. My FJ62 has the small unleaded door below the gas cap. That one is a pain to fill. I've rigged up some 1/2" piece of PVC with a forty-five then a funnel. That has worked the best since this is the vehicle used the most but rarely get to a gas station forty miles away.

 

[Mark W]

I don't know for certain, but I've heard that a cap from a 55 gal. drum will fit the jerry can. You could pick up some rubber gasket material from the hardware store to make a gasket.

It will fit. But the GI can has a vent hole beside the spout hole. Some 55 can "caps" will not cover this. some *might* but don't count on it.

Mark...