Fuel transfer - Jerry can to tank

[tarik]

I have a couple of 5 gallon jerry cans full of diesel. Does any body have any good ideas for transferring the fuel from the cans located in the cockpit locker up to the fuel inlet on deck.

I dont want to have to lift them onto the deck at sea and try to re-fuel.

As ever many thanks for all replies.


David

 

[sailorman]

I have a couple of 5 gallon jerry cans full of diesel. Does any body have any good ideas for transferring the fuel from the cans located in the cockpit locker up to the fuel inlet on deck.

I dont want to have to lift them onto the deck at sea and try to re-fuel.

As ever many thanks for all replies.


David

sounds like you need smaller lighter containers + a siphon thingy

 

[fergie_mac66]

not sure about this but I see no reason why not:-

in tank fuel pump from a scrap yard should be able to get one for a tenner

 

[sarabande]

I have a little Amazon 12v LVM pump. Works a treat at about 3 galls a minute from the ground to the tractor fuel inlet about 5 ft higher.

http://www.lvmshop.co.uk/lvm-pumps/lvm105-lvm-amazon-pump-12v.htm


Cheaper on ebay....

 

[Bru]

Haven;t got a solution but advise avoiding a thing called a "SuperSpout" which clips onto a jerry can using the cap lugs and is claimed to avoid overfilling

The overfilling bit works fine but it leaks like a bl**dy seive around the can end

Worst £20 I've spent so far since buying the boat

 

[pappaecho]

I recently had a problem with a camshaft on a diesel engine, resulting in having to dump a mechanical lift pump and replace with an electric one. £28 on Ebay and fantastic. It struck me that it would also be very good at fuel transfer. The one I have is all metal with 5/16" spigots, so simple polythene tube and a bit of wire to connect it up

 

[tarik]

Fuel transfer

Very interesting do you have any details of make etc???


David

I recently had a problem with a camshaft on a diesel engine, resulting in having to dump a mechanical lift pump and replace with an electric one. £28 on Ebay and fantastic. It struck me that it would also be very good at fuel transfer. The one I have is all metal with 5/16" spigots, so simple polythene tube and a bit of wire to connect it up

 

[dingdongs]

this is what i have for my petrol .give it a jiggle and so long as the container is above the tank your free to go.can get ends separately like i did but cant remember where.no fuel on your hands or a bad back;http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JIGGLE-SIPHON...8524?pt=UK_Recovery_Tools&hash=item19c377760c

 

[snooks]

We only refilled from a diesel pump one in two and a half months in Scotland, the rest of the time we used the Super pump

 

[Giblets]

this is what i have for my petrol .give it a jiggle and so long as the container is above the tank your free to go.can get ends separately like i did but cant remember where.no fuel on your hands or a bad back;http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JIGGLE-SIPHON...8524?pt=UK_Recovery_Tools&hash=item19c377760c

Another vote for the jiggle syphon. If you main fuel tank is below the height of the cans in the cockpit locker you will need to extend the syphon hose to pass up to the fill point and then down into the main tank so that the outlet is below the cans. Then "jiggle away" (as all chaps know how to do ) and the syphon will start. Used to do this regularly on the RIB where the main fuel tank was below the floor but the filling point was half way up the consul.

 

[Lakesailor]

Haven;t got a solution but advise avoiding a thing called a "SuperSpout" which clips onto a jerry can using the cap lugs and is claimed to avoid overfilling

The overfilling bit works fine but it leaks like a bl**dy seive around the can end

Worst £20 I've spent so far since buying the boat

Strangely enough I saw these for sale today. Is this what you mean? (£8.99)

 

[marko99]

We use a rotary drum pump like THIS with a rubber hose jubilee clipped on to the outlet. Works a treat for pumping from a cockpit locker.

 

[longjohnsilver]

this is what i have for my petrol .give it a jiggle and so long as the container is above the tank your free to go.can get ends separately like i did but cant remember where.no fuel on your hands or a bad back;http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JIGGLE-SIPHON...8524?pt=UK_Recovery_Tools&hash=item19c377760c

Agreed, have used one for years. Great and inexpensive bit of kit.

 

[Bru]

Strangely enough I saw these for sale today. Is this what you mean? (£8.99)

Nope, that's a standard jerry can spout albeit one with a flexible hose (by the look of it) - the superspout has a doubled back pipe with some sort of breather arrangement which stops letting liquid through once the receiving tank is full. That side of it works perfectly well, it's the seal with the jerry can that's feckin' useless

 

[vyv_cox]

I have owned a collection of these for years, two or three on board. I keep a larger one for decanting diesel and one for occasional bilgewater use.

The 'jiggle' siphons always look good at the various show demonstrations but I'm perfectly happy with the ones I have.

 

[Neil_Y]

I used gaffer tape, dinghy pump and tube.
Gaffer filler hose 10-15mm clear pipe into neck of can reaching the bottom, beside this tube gaffer the pump hose from the foot pump.

As you pump up air pressure it forces the fuel into the tank, if its above the tank it will start the syphon if below it will pump it up hill. I used this method for around 50 litres mid ocean. The benefit I see over some of the pumps is that you completely seal the neck of the can so even though its sloshing about nothing comes out. Dismantling will always be a bit messy with any system.

 

[rickym]

Have had a 'jiggle siphon' for yesrs. works really well. All in the wrist action!

 

[Goldie]

Have had a 'jiggle siphon' for yesrs. works really well. All

Another vote for the jiggly siphon - and they're only a few pounds in Halfords.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_197771_langId_-1_categoryId_165469

 

[tarik]

Fuel Transfer

Thanks everybody - some great ideas.

Happy Sailing


David

 

[bluedragon]

Whale Easybailer

We've got two of these http://www.force4.co.uk/853/Whale--Easybailer-35-Pump.html on board and I've been planning to try one as a diesel transfer pump (it says it's OK for this). See also here http://www.whalepumps.com/marine/product_list/7/52/