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Hope the OP realizes we're only thinking of him and his passenger and not picking the installation apart. ;)
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Hope the OP realizes we're only thinking of him and his passenger and not picking the installation apart. ;)
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Suggestion...get a cheap battery box the right footprint...secure the battery box to the tongue...put gas can inside and strap it down with a battery tie-down strap.
A couple pieces of angle aluminum screwed to the sides of the tongue makes a very strong platform for the battery box.
Sounds good......isn't always possible. (This was a previous post of mine here.)
Don't know how these get sorted in the posting list, as I didn't/don't see it directly under the posting I was responding to, so to clarify.....this was in response to the suggestion about "plan ahead and you don't have to worry about extra fuel".
I don't remember who's machine it was but recently when their back tire let loose it did a ton of damage to the back end of the bike. I can imagine that's a possibility w/ the gas can behind the wheel there. Use your own judgement though.
UtahPete, Modified already with a "plastic" box around it, but I am always looking for a better one. Battery boxes I've seen would be significantly oversized for what I need. This is only a 1 gal. container that fits in a 5x7x8hi space. Thinking about a surplus ammo or military box, if size is right.
This is where we would carry extra fuel on sleds back in the late 90's thru the late 00's, the tank plumbed into the gas tank vent line thus sucking the Tour Buddy fuel first, the company that made them was called Tour Buddy.
I suppose there was risk if you piled into a tree, but then again there was all kinds of risk sledding in no-mans land when the fuel stops were over 100 miles apart.
Couple using the lockable roropax system shared here while back
I have been looking in to one of those for my 2010 yamaha Vmax. That bike only has a 100 mile range. I have had no problems so far, I just fill up any time I come across a gas station once I have about 50 or more miles on a tank. But it would be nice to have that extra 20 oz, just in case.
After touring on our Spyders for the last 6 years and logging over 80K, We stopped packing fuel as we never used it for ourselves, only other riders. This year we did a Coast to Coast and back trip that lasted 11,000 miles taking all back roads. I never felt were going to run out of fuel even in the western states, we just make sure we fill up at the first station we see after we get to about 1/2 tank, when we had the 998s I carried fuel but never used it then but did get very low several times. The only issue we had carrying fuel was keeping it from being stolen twice. I never worried about crashing and fire,and I won’t say it would not happen,but almost does in every movie you see on TV:roflblack: The battery box is a very good way for secondary protection and security.
I willl get one of these, made for motorcycle carry
https://www.revzilla.com/motorcycle-...orage-transfer
If you really, really must carry extra gas, I'd go with the bladder from revzilla and place it in a commercial flight data recorder box and mount it to the outside of your trailer somewhere.
Following up on a prior post of mine showing the possible installation of a small bookshelf plastic "crate", on the tongue of our trailer to hold a reserve 1 gal. gas can.
My "original" idea was to mount an army surplus ammo box on the tongue, but didn't have one close by. :banghead:
After completing the original install, I stopped at a few "Surplus" stores out here, and came up with a "perfect size" ammo can. :clap: Attached pics show the results. Recently finished a 700 mile trip with the gas can full and experienced "0" indication of any weeping of gas in the box. :yes::yes::yes:
Excellent idea! What else did you fit inside that can. Looks like a standard 50 cal ammo can with inside dimensions are 11''L x 5 1/2''W x 7''D.
I know they also sell 30 cal and 40mm surplus ammo cans pretty regular, but the standard 50 cal (5.56 ball) is used for many, many extra containers.
Now I think there's also a "Fat Fifty" or SAW surplus ammo can that's longer, wider and taller, inside dimensions are 11.9" x 6.75" x 8.2"
By the way there is a lock kit that can be installed in the ammo can that a common key type padlock can be slipped through.
Inside the can I also have a funnel, the original spout parts that came with the gas can (I added a "plain" top cap on the can to reduce overall height in the ammo box) , and some paper shop towels.
The ammo box description can't be read under the black paint, but it measures on the outside, 12" long, 6.5" wide, and 8.375 hi.