Reference: Carrying extra fuel in CMP on long trips.....

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Hanno

I would never use good flimsies for a back wood trip they might get dented but the $5 dollars barrels are almost disposable.

If I succeed it will be posted and photo documented....sadly there are no LRDG hulks to discover!!!!

Cheers

[Barry Churcher]

Bob I admire the "style and image" that you have cultivated. It sounds like a real fun trip and I can't wait to see the photos. If you need any more 60 liter barrels (blue plastic) I have a free supply you are welcome to. That is what I get my synthetic oil in now and the plastic oil container service the Ontario Government makes us pay for won`t take them. I cut them up and put them in the garbage bin. So much for recycling. Good luck on the trip.
Barry

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Barry

The steel barrels I got had synthetic engine oil also...brand nane "TOTAL".
I will clean them up, prime and paint OD. Just happens to be a good size for one man handling.
At $5 bucks each it is cheaper than the the Chinese OD plastic cans sold at Princess for $109.99 or surplus army jerry cans(plastic) at $20.00 and beaten to sh** ........ Plastic 60 liters would be nice as they never rust. Thanks for the offer...... MT 60 L steel drums sell for $20 on FB listing for Toronto. The service station I got them from is stuck like you with getting rid of them.....

The trip is no more risky than going with my F150 4x4 and if it develops a problem I can't fix it. With the C15a at least I can tinker with it and it is just as dependable and with reasonable driving much more rugged.

Cheers

[Harry Moon]

over the yearswe have goine on a couple of off road trips, the last one in 2018 over forest service roads across the border in Washington State, a few video's on my YouTube channel "privatehm". Wish I could join you. Oh and you can fit a compressor onto the C15A transmission .

[Bob Carriere]

Hi Harry

Not sure how dependable or fast these little suckers work..... in the old days of M 37 I used a spark plug pump.... easy to fit on a flat head Dodge...... worked rather well but takes a while to bring tires up from 12 pounds to 40+ for the highway but way faster than the little cigar lighter pump available back then.... I still have it but the rubber hose is now brittle....

The main hassle is getting to the start of the dirt roads or about 4 hours!!!!

May need a tank as well as I might play with the spare set of horns from a deuce.....

Bob C.

[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Bob Carriere

Hi Harry

Not sure how dependable or fast these little suckers work..... in the old days of M 37 I used a spark plug pump.... easy to fit on a flat head Dodge...... worked rather well but takes a while to bring tires up from 12 pounds to 40+ for the highway .....

We know engines are compressors. But what about sprayed fuel in your tubes?

As for me joining the Bob Convoy on the Backroads Expedition? Not until my M151A2 comes out of rebuild. The guy who welded it together put a good half on the front, but the back half had a serious attack of the tin termites.

[Grant Bowker]

Originally Posted by maple_leaf_eh

We know engines are compressors. But what about sprayed fuel in your tubes?

To start with I wondered about that too but it turns out that there's a diaphragm between the cylinder gasses in the pump and the atmospheric air being compressed into the tyre. The pulsing pressure from the engine's cylinder provides the power to move fresh air through check valves and the pump to the tyre being inflated without any mixing of the two sets of gasses. Due to the now imbalanced cylinder pressures without the combustion cycle it is advised not to rev the engine highly in a desire to speed the inflation...