Actually, the exhaust does smell pretty rich. However, sometimes it's hard to tell where the gas smell is coming from because the fuel lines going into the gas tank are probably cracked. Gas spills out the top of the tank if I top it off. Another on my laundry list of projects to do in the near future . . . Could the cracked hoses going into the top of the gas tank cause performance problems? I would think this would only be the case if the fuel system was a closed and pressurized system. Marc Craig Oda wrote: >I hope Marc fixes his problem. I wanted to chime in that I had the >same problem as Chris with a leaking fuel line that went into a fuel >rail. This did cause intermittent power loss is odd places, like >going up a hill, but only occassionally. I was also getting bad fuel >mileage. However, there was a whiff of gasoline. So, if there is no >whiff of gas, then Marc should be able to quickly rule out the leaking >fuel line. Of course the pressure regulator could be faulty or the >fuel filter could be jammed. > >However, I think one of the symptoms was the smell of rich exhaust, so >I'd still bet my 25 cents on the AFM spring. > >-- Craig > > > > |
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