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Re: A good idea to check...

To: DLancer7676@cs.com, pixelsmith@gerardsgarage.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: A good idea to check...
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:22:28 -0700
David - Have you checked the hoses to the vent unit mounted in the trunk 
right hand side (inside the wheel well).  There are two about 1/4 " dia 
hoses there that I found had rotted away.  The gas fumes would be drawn 
into the passenger compartment big time.

Good luck - Dave Bohler





At 07:26 AM 7/5/00 -0400, 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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