While your tank is off for inspection it is a good idea to de-rust the top of it. Crud gets up there and eats away ant the metal. Seals....There is a large rubber seal that goes round the filler neck and several small seals that seal the pipes that go to the expansion tanks in the wheel arches. FWIW I had your same symptoms and it turned out to the end rusted off a thin metal pipe which runs along the top/side of the tank. Cut it back to good metal, cleaned it up and connected to up with new fuel line pipe. All is now well. Good luck with it. Martin At 16:59 06/03/00 -500, Ezra Hall wrote: > Since purchase last Sept, we have had a gasoline smell problem after fill up, >especially when filling the tank all the way. I see the filler neck leaks towards >the opening, so that needs replacement or repair. However, even after driving >for a couple of hours, gas can be smelled when the doors are opened. I assume >I need to drop the tank to find the source of the leak. I would like to minimize >down time, are there common seals that need replacement so I can order prior >to dropping the tank? Hopefully we don't have rust holes on the top of the tank... >Other than the filler neck, there are no visible leaks from below. >Thanks, > Ezra Hall >www.together.net/~ehall >'88 westy, Automatic > > |
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