YEP! Change the cold start injector. Happened to my engine outa my 81 Westy (living in my 83 at the present time). Swapped it with a good injector, problem (scarey one that it is) went away.
tim
>Hey all: > >Smelling gas back in the engine compartment, I looked and found that >the two short pieces of fuel hose leading to the cold start valve were >drenched in gas and there was gas on the top of the block. I've >replaced the short fuel hose pieces, but the problem has reoccurred, >though it doesn't seem to happen when the electrical connector to the >thermo-time switch is disconnected. > >It seems the next step is to replace the cold start valve, as I'm >guessing that that's the part that's leaking, but these things are >expen$ive. Anybody have any other thoughts? > >TIA. >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- >Tom Young tomyoung1@home.com >Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. |
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