I do it -- It's the kind with a screw-cap vent, made in Canada. Forget the name. In New England conditions the top gets sort of faded after a year and a half or two years, then you turn it over for the same on the other side. Then you buy a new can. If you don't, and let it get really pale, it will crack. Aside from that, it swells up like a football in the heat and sucks itself in in the cold, and works just fine. Of course if you set the van down on top of it there's going to be a problem...in a frontal I have hopes that it will leap out and fly away. 2 1/2 gals is a perfect size, and if you want it will take two and leave some space in the middle still. david At 15:13 4/20/2000, Davidson wrote: >Before I cancelled my trip to Baja, I was thinking of taking a 2 1/2 gallon >plastic gas can and strapping it in the luggage rack on top of my Westy. >But I was concerned what the heat and sun would do to it. >Anyone have any experience with heat and sun ruining a plastic gas can or David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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