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Topic: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

Anyone know where to get the extra wide hoses for our jugs?  Mine are a bit small.  Thanks for any sourcing help.

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

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Home Depot has a pretty good variety of fuel-safe reinforced vinyl hose. I think the real trick is that for most fuel jugs, in order to run a wider hose, you need to modify the threaded part on the fuel jug -- like drill it out and tap it for a larger screw-in flange/spout -- and my understanding of the new fuel jug rule was "no fuel jug modifications, ever, ever" from the line of posts back around Christmas time, with the threat of a mandatory 2-hour penalty for violating the fueling regs. Right?

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

It's not the hose size...it's the vent size that determines speed of delivery.

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

We have some fast flowing jugs, I was hoping to get more.  None of them were modified.  I understand the veting issue, but our fast flowers seem to have the same tabbed vent as the others.

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

rodknox2 wrote:

It's not the hose size...it's the vent size that determines speed of delivery.

It's not the size of the hose .... but how you use it...   There I fixed it

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

We use the Home Depot clear 1-5/8" OD hose. 2.5 ft of it so with the jug on the ground we can feed the hose into the gas opening then pick up the jug and dump it without spilling. This is with the Hunzaker 5 gal jugs.

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

We saw a big improvement in dump speed by going from the stock 3/4ID hose that came with our jugs years ago, to a 1"ID hose.

If this "mod" concerns you from a legality standpoint, then don't do the mod.  Just buy it from Summit for $12.
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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

Thanks guys!

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

Venting along with the size of the dump hose both affect how fast they dump.

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Re: wide hoses for fueling jugs?

sergio wrote:

We use the Home Depot clear 1-5/8" OD hose. 2.5 ft of it so with the jug on the ground we can feed the hose into the gas opening then pick up the jug and dump it without spilling. This is with the Hunzaker 5 gal jugs.


Still using this tech, hoses need to be trained to hold shape BEFORE going to a cold race.

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