Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32921 in Home Improvement
• Brand: Briggs & Stratton
• Model: WCA520P
• Number of items: 1

Features

• Meets California Standards (CARB Compliant)
• 5.25 gallon capacity

From the Manufacturer
Briggs & Stratton 5 gallon metal gasoline can with a spill-proof system. Child proof system on auto shut-off spout and also prevents the escape of harmful vapors during transportation. Good for re-fueling on-road vehicles, power equipment, snow blowers, and many more applications. 1-year warranty.

Customer Reviews

Good can, terrible spout
The Briggs and Stratton gas cans were originally modeled after the NATO/Jerry cans, and the overall welded construction of these is still superior to the Blitz made cans. The NATO style cans worked wonderfully with vented spouts that clamped on. Unfortunately the EPA bureaucrats just can't have that so they set about "correcting" the "shortcomings" of the gas can in America.

All gas cans and spouts made for the US now have to meet California "CARB" specs with antispill automatic shut off spouts, must have threaded attaching points for those nozzles instead of the clamp-on type, and 'child-proof' caps. The new spouts have pretty much all been problematic and difficult to use, even the ones made for these good quality cans, especially if you have an unusually positioned filler (like cars with the gas cap behind the license plate, or on top of the fender instead of on the side) since you have to override the 'automatic shut off' while manhandling a potentially heavy can.

Do yourself a favor and try to find the NATO style cans if you can, and if your state has not already banned them by adopting CARB requirements. The NATO cans and spouts work much, much better and are perfectly safe when used with common sense. They may still be available at outdoor/garden/power equipment stores in your area.

What a piece of junk
The spout mechanism is a piece of junk. Stick with the old spout designs. This one will be returned as soon as you drain the gas from it. DON"T BUY THIS STYLE SPOUT!!!

Excellent can, if you don't use the nozzle with it.
Forget the C.A.R.B. compliant nozzle. Get a cheap long stiff and tapered transmission funnel of about $2 at WalMart.

These cans are really nice and durable. They are made in Canada and first impoorted by Wedco, them marketed by Briggs and Stratton, and later by Midwest Can. I have the old ones base on the original German "Jerry Can" of WWII fame.

I have six of these, too. I don't use thm on this screw neck can. I use them on my one gallon Wedco originally vented 1-2 gallon gas cans for my lawn mower and my gras trimmers. They work great, since the cans are light weight and easy to handle.

But, forget it with a 40 pounds plus full five gallon can. It wount work with a norrow nozzle on the side of a car made for unleaded gas. The solution: Just stick in a long rigid $2 transmission funnel. I saw that on T.V. in a news report in California. I tried it and it works like a charm. The funnel stays in place and you can use both hands to handle the can.

That's the only way to go.