[Healeys] fuel pump update

[Leonard Hartnett]

Another source of gas smell in the trunk area can be the recessed area where 
the sending unit it located.  If you fill your tank, the fuel will be higher 
than the lowest part of the recess. If the screws and/or copper washers that 
secure the sending unit leak, gasoline will seep up into that recess and the 
smell will persist until the fuel level in the tank goes down whereupon the 
fuel will seep back into the tank or evaporate.

(The Other) Len
Vacaville,  California,  USA
1967 3000 MKIII, HBJ8L39031


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Davies" <rdavies1 at cox.net>
To: "'Healeys Newsgroup'" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 4:52 PM
Subject: [Healeys] fuel pump update
>
> That explains why ever since I bought the car I could occasionally smell
> gas in the trunk area.
>
> Ron Davies