Q: If you know of a good source for the replacement CAP - please post!
These three videos covered most of my rants:
- How to fix a Blitz gas can: formatting link
- Midwest Can Company gas can modification: formatting link
- How to fix the broken Blitz environ-flo cap (which always breaks at the lower ring due to inferior design): formatting link
Here are my observations about the Blitz enviro-flow spout gas cans:
a. You need three hands to pour 5 gallons into a vehicle (one alone to keep pressing the button - and two other hands to hold the heavy five-gallon can at chest height since the button hand can not possibly hold the can).
b. Even then, it takes a dozen minutes to empty the entire five gallons due to the extremely low gasoline flow volume so you're holding the five gallons of gas for a long time with those same three hands and you can't switch position because of the button press (see above).
c. After all that, you MUST tilt the can wholly upside down because of the absolutely criminal design of the lowest spot NOT being where the nozzle opening lies. What does the EPA think of the fact you almost always must leave an ounce of gas in the can to vent to the atmosphere en masse?
d. But wait. There's more. As your arms tire, you accidentally let up on the button. Now you have to put the can down because you can't depress the button while you're holding the heavy can at chest height (try it).
e. Of course, when you screw on the cap after refilling the gas can, your soft palm is cut by the hard plastic "child proof" tab on the gas can and the large flaps on the cap. The funny thing is that it takes so much physical force to loosen the cap, that any "child" with that kind of strength and hand size certainly already knows enough to defeat the locking mechanism. Amazing waste of time that 'child proof' lock!
f. Once you do screw on the cap, after a few months, it will invariably crack and then separate around the circular top. The design puts ALL the stress at that point! Of course, it all being black, you don't notice it. Until. Yep. Until you smell fumes and you see gasoline leaking all over your vehicle. Still, you don't know which can it is so you have to look closely at all of them - but there will always be one leaking due to the absolutely horrific design of the gas cap upper ring.
g. The cans are unusable enough out of the box - but there's even more. Most stores do NOT sell the plastic six-inch flexible spout with the gas can (it's an option from the factory). So, at Lowe's for example, you don't get the spout. Now it's impossible to pour into a vehicle at chest height because, as you all know, a vehicle has a trap door at the opening. Of course, the Blitz enviro-flow nozzle won't fit deeply enough to activate that trap door - so you can't pour the gas in anyway.
The solution? I hope Blitz goes out of business (for good); but, until then, they're all you can buy at Lowes - so your only solution is to find a cap that is sturdy and that fits (from a lawn mower gasoline tank) and then to drill a 1/2" hole for a tire-tube vent to fit. After that, you buy six or seven feet of 1/2" clear thick-walled hose, and you siphon the gas from the roof of the vehicle, into the gas tank.
It's the only way that works.
If you know of a good source for the replacement CAP - please post!