>Well drive with the top down!!! Sheesh will you people never learn??
I know - that is excately what I was doing! Beause it is getting colder is
the ONLY reason I started smelling it!
>Seriously, check the tubing going to from the lil canister in he boot. Well
>that is if the 70 has a little canister in the boot. Thatıs where I found
>my
>gas smell.
>
>Larry
That is excately what I'm gunna do. From the reponses I've gotten I pretty
sure the adsorption cannister/vapor separator/pipes connecting are the
culprit. I intend to put the adsorption cannister back on with my original
SUs (I'm gunna rebuild it) and sell the Weber. This will take some time and
money I don't really have so I'll have to live with the smell. I'll post my
results when the time comes.
Thanks Larry and everyone,
Jesse
> > List,
> >
> > When the top is up and the windows are rolled up I can smell gas. Which
> > makes it a real drag for winter driving. I did installed a new SU fuel
>pump
> > a while back, and didn't tighten the gas pipe hard enough the first time
> > around. I found it to be leaking slightly - tighten it until it stopped
>and
> > thought that was the problem. Well, I still smell it... I ran the
>engine
> > for a while and gave a good look under the car, and nothing was leaking.
> I
> > followed the fuel line and didn't see anything out of the ordinary
>(didn't
> > check really good around the tranny though...). I also gave a quick
>look in
> > the trunk. Nothing seemed to be leaking...
> >
> > Any ideas where to go from here?
> >
> > Gas mileage is pretty bad - 140 miles a tank! I didn't get really good
>gas
> > mileage to begin with: never rebuilt/valves rattling/low oil
>pressure/Weber
> > Downdraft Carb. Not really sure what the mileage was before, because I
>took
> > the car out of storage, to start driving it again, and the fuel pump
>broke
> > first thing. I did replace the tank about 13 years ago with a used one
>from
> > a pick-n-pull yard. Can't think of anything else usefull.
> >
> > Thanks - watching my fuel needle drop,
> > Jesse
> > 1970 MGB
> >
>_________________________________________________________________________
> >
>
>Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
>macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu
>System Administrator/Manager
>Neuropsychiatry Section
>Department of Psychiatry
>University of Pennsylvania
>3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
>Philadelphia, PA 19104
>
> Ask a question and you're a fool for three minutes; do not ask a
>question and you're a fool for the rest of your life.
>
>
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