Posted by Goose on May 04, 2010 at 16:28:47 from (67.63.68.13):
In Reply to: gas can posted by Kevin Meier on May 04, 2010 at 14:08:00:
They are a total joke!!
What I did, was take a pair of dikes and cut the center shaft of the valve. The entire valve drops out. Then cut the lever off and screw an oversized sheet metal screw into the hole the center rod of the valve left. You now have a spout that's open clear through. You might have to scrounge for a cap for the spout if it didn't have one, but plastic caps from new hydraulic hoses or something similar works.
I then drilled a 3/8" hole in the appropriate place for an air vent. I took some bolt though tire valve stems and used a wire to pull them through into the vent hole. Tightened them down and put a valve cap on with no valve core in the stem.
I did four of them, and they work just like old times.
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