Date:         Mon, 17 May 2004 03:23:58 EDT
Reply-To:     Oxroad@AOL.COM
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From:         Jeff Oxroad <Oxroad@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Re: gas smell
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In a message dated 5/16/2004 5:55:49 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
gorgemetalfab@YAHOO.COM writes:


> After simply starting
> the van and moving it a few feet then shutting it
>

I agree with the others. In my case I had the gas smell by the rear passenger
tire. It was a small leak where the fuel line goes through the "fire wall". I
was near impossible to find, because if I shut the bus down and then got
under the bus to find the leak there was no sign of the leak because the gasoline
from the leak evaporated quickly. When I looked underneat with the bus
running, AH HA! a nice stream of gasoline.

Good luck. And remember in many spots you need to replace fuel line with high
pressure fuel injection fuel line. The vents over the gas tank are regular
fuel line as they are not under pressure. But if I had mine to do over again I'd
use the pricey fule injection line for the vents too, as the fabric coated
low pressure line has dried out after only three year. Time to drop my tank
again. Argh!

Best
Jeff
83.5 Westfalia
LA,CA