VP Fuel Cans, Whats up with the vent location?

Shifty

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I decided to buy myself a quality fuel container last week. Since one of my old school, pre-enviroment friendly crap can got a pinhole in it. Being dumb I put the little bit of extra fuel I had left over from my old can in there on top of the existing 5gals. Needles to say fuel was pouring out of the vent while I babied it into my ski. While doing this I stuck the nozzle into my fuel filler too far and it got stuck and would not come out. I had to remove the cap to finesse it out of there.

So now that the fuel is at the correct level (less than 5gal) I go to pouring and still its slow going trying to keep the fuel from coming out of the vent.

What is the deal? I much prefer my Wal-Mart specials.
 
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I had the same complaint but got it figured now. unscrew the vent cap completely and cover the vent with your thumb. Insert the tube and invert the jug and then remove your thumb, the flow is more than enough to pull air in the vent and not spill a drop. If you baby the can on it's side then they leak, commit to it and they hardly spill a drop.
 
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Ok, that makes sense. I got the not sticking it in so far thing down right away though:poke: I can see how having it completely inverted would allow it to keep from leaking much if at all with the vacuum it creates.

The worst part about this is my girlfriend was laughing at me struggle with this thing the whole time before we went riding. She was making fun of it as soon as UPS dropped it off. Now that I know how to use it im going to redeem myself this weekend.

VP is sending my a new cap as mine leaks there also. They are very helpful atleast.
 
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How much did you pay for it?

I've got a few chitty old leaking gas cans that are horrible. I need to put some money into gas cans.
 
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I bought a couple from the guy that advertised them on here about a year ago. Not exactly like the VP cans, I think it was Jazz motorsports.. It's a great can, flows crazy fast and the vent is in the same spot, and doesn't spill a drop. Think I paid about $35-$40 a piece.
 
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If only I could go back in time to before I left Canada and gave away all my old pre-spill proof fuel cans figuring I would just buy new ones down here. :banghead:

I like the VP jugs but I loved the simplicity of the old Wedco jugs.

I bought my VP's online off ebay and got a really good price and excellent customer service. The guy in shipping was excellent to deal with. We had an issue with delivery and he called me everyday until they were in my hands. I'll have to look back thru Paypal to see who it was.
 
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ADDict said:
I bought a couple from the guy that advertised them on here about a year ago. Not exactly like the VP cans, I think it was Jazz motorsports.. It's a great can, flows crazy fast and the vent is in the same spot, and doesn't spill a drop. Think I paid about $35-$40 a piece.
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I think they were about $25 each if you bought 4.

My only complaint with them is that you can't put 5gal + oil in a can - you have to back down to 4.5 gal gas, then add oil.
 
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I saw somones post here recently "WTF VP" or something to that effect and someone posted this link . I went direct because they are in San Antonio and I am only an hour away so shipping was cheap enough, atleast for UPS at $8.00 and I got it the next day. I paid $49.00 after tax and shipping for the can and basic fuel hose w/cap. VP has been very helpful with my leaking cap.

I missed one on eBay that sold for about $30 shipped, too bad.


For those that have owned both types, any reason to go with round vs. square or vice versa?
 
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He is still selling on ebay as bikebrokeratl but looks like all he has is round cans for over $43.40
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/VP-R...m&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_100&hash=item19b9e20023

I bought 3 white square cans at 37.99 each and 2 spare caps at $7.50 each.
For height reasons under my tonneau cover I keep standard caps on all my jugs and have 2 separate filler caps made up with extended hoss and valves.

I wouldn't waste the time or effort on the valves, I'd seen them done and thought it was the way to go but have since stripped them both out. Just keep track of the little white cap or keep a spare on hand if your prone to loosing such things.
 
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Matt_E

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I just have a hard time spending that much money on a freaking fuel can. :dunno:
I am a cheap bastard.
 
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Matt_E said:
I just have a hard time spending that much money on a freaking fuel can. :dunno:
I am a cheap bastard.
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I agree, it's hard to beat a $9 fuel jug, even if they do pour extremely slow...speaking of which I actually have 3 of the cheap ones to sell in our garage sale next week...
 
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All my chitty cans leak crazy bad, though. I have only one good can. I'm having to use a funnel to transfer fuel from the bad cans into the good can before I can fill up the ski.
That just sucks. :thumbsdown:
 
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The actual round VP jugs are the best in my opinion. They hold 5.5 gallons + oil just fine. The vent cap never needs to be open more than a turn or so - open them too much and they will drip, if you just crack them, they never spill a drop.

I don't like the square cans because they usually have a snap style vent cap and they only hold 5 gallons max.
 
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