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#11 rilcombs

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Posted 05 May 2017 - 06:54 PM

If you're not ready to invest in exterior mounting options, securing them under the rollover couch isn't the worst idea.  Not that we carry them often, but two Wavian jerry cans fit perfectly in our Raven, and we didn't smell anything at all.


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Posted 05 May 2017 - 08:55 PM

Thanks for all of the advice, guys!  Very helpful.

 

No, I didn't have any reinforcement added.  I didn't think of it.


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Posted 05 May 2017 - 11:04 PM

Another user of the AT Gas Can Holder and Bracket.  Survived out to Tuweep and back and a trip around the White Rim Trail with no ill effects.  Don't have any good pictures handy but the jack bracket and aluminum plate coming from underneath seems to be very effective.


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Posted 06 May 2017 - 02:55 PM

I love Ronin's bumper sticker!  Very appropriate for the box around a gas can! 

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#15 nikonron

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Posted 06 May 2017 - 04:52 PM

AT makes a can holder and bracket for mounting to the jack bracket. If you go to Rocky Mountain Four Wheel campers Facebook page and scroll through the photos, there are several good pics of it. Very simple to build your own once you see it.  Ron


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Posted 07 May 2017 - 10:29 PM

On my Nissan Frontier I installed a front receiver and use a winch mount from Harbor Freight to carry 2 five gallon cans, sometimes water and sometimes gas.  In the front if I hit something it's my fault, in the rear you are at the mercy of the texting teenager behind you.  We've been through Steele Pass, down Lippincott in Death Valley and to Toroweap with it no problem. You can find a pic of it in this trip report.

http://www.wanderthe...illm#entry35604


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Posted 08 May 2017 - 06:02 PM

I have my gas can on my swing arm like nikonron. I used to store a 5gal poly tank under the rollover couch before I had my bumper made. I hated doing it and would dump the gas into my tank as soon as I could after hitting the back roads. 

Aluminess Bumper, Ronin?


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#18 DavidGraves

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Posted 09 May 2017 - 03:55 PM

I have read several references that California law now forbids outside carry of fuel cans.....

 

Any comments on this ?

 

Also, the entry gate to Mexico are said to restrict FULL cans.

 

I would be pleased to hear more actual experience.

 

David Graves 


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Posted 09 May 2017 - 07:13 PM

That would be news to me, but it is CA so its certainly plausible. 


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Posted 10 May 2017 - 06:30 AM

I have heard stories about not being able to bring full fuel containers back into the US from Mexico unless it was plumbed into the truck fuel system. This mainly applied to diesels with bed mounted tanks with fuel pumps. Not sure this is as much of a problem now that Mexican fuel is so expensive.


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