.......and....I've found the roof rack is a GREAT place to carry an EMPTY
plastic gas can so that it doesn't take up any interior room.  Since very
few gas stations will sell you a container in an emergency anymore, it's
good to have one aboard.

Tony

>From: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
>Reply-To: "Karl F. Bloss" <bloss@ENTER.NET>
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: rear gas can carrier ( winkler )
>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 08:52:23 -0400
>
> > Also, maybe someone has come up with a good way for less than $300 to
>rig up
> > something to carry more fuel without a stinky and dangerous can inside
>the
> > van.
>
>Ken Swan carries plastic fuel cans on top of his luggage rack.  The problem
>I
>see with this is that the sun tends to heat these things up and gasoline's
>high
>vapor pressure tends to want to bulge the plastic and blow the rupture
>disc.
>At the very least the rear vent cap will pop.  And if you drive around with
>the
>vent cap off, you're continuously venting gas vapors.
>
>Also, resist temptation to put a gas can in the spare tire carrier.  I had
>one
>rupture there after presumably shifting and leaning against a coolant hose.
>  It
>could also just have been the hot air coming off the radiator.
>
>So I haven't found a good solution yet, but I know a few things that don't
>work
>well.  :-o
>
>-Karl
>
>Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
>'87 GL Weekender  "Beverley" -  185K miles
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