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Re: A good idea to check...

To: DLancer7676@cs.com
Subject: Re: A good idea to check...
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 07:58:50 -0400
Cc: spridgets@autox.team.net
References: <c5.71bf6fc.26947578@cs.com>
David -

Check the carbon canister on the right side of the engine compartment. 
That turned out to be the trouble when I had a similar problem.  The
darn thing was fouled badly, and gas sodden.  Replacing the carbon in
the canister (aquarium charcoal) solved it.

Chris K.

DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
> 
> Thanks Gerard!  I drive a 1500 and have a sort of different gasoline problem.
>  It is not leaking--I have never seen a puddle or drip of gasoline under the
> car.  BUT when I fill up the gasoline tank there is a STRONG odor of gasoline
> in the cockpit  until she is run for a little while.  After running a few
> miles there is no gas odor.  The PO has placed the fuel pump, one of those
> square aftermarket affairs, in the boot and I have replaced all the hoses
> back there when I replaced the pump about a year ago.  The gas odor problem
> transcended the pump change.
> 
> Anybody have any ideas?
> 
> --David C.

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