koosh
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Lots of fuel fumes in the garage….no leaks anywhere that Ive found. Brand new tank with hose vapor line from top of filler neck down thru trunk floor into the frame…. ( i think thats correct?)
My car is fuel injected, with fuel pump in the tank…. Ive been under the car tracing length of the fuel line with no signs of leaksI'm betting on a leak somewhere else. They can be hard to find sometimes. I found mine by accident after months of fuel odor. My leak was at the fuel pump connection but would only leak at higher RPMs. Could never get it to leak at idle.
Thanks…. Im wondering if that canister would go in the line which starts at the filler tube top, and down thru trunk floor?Have not yet, but want to in the future. Tanks Inc has them plus another company out of Az that slips my mind.
Fuel Vapor Carbon Canister
Fuel Vapor Carbon Canister with Heat Shield
YIKES!!!! that’s outa my leagueazfuels.com Vapor Trapper. Works great and looks nice as well.
My car is fuel injected, with fuel pump in the tank…. Ive been under the car tracing length of the fuel line with no signs of leaks![]()
All good points…. In CT, sometimes spring and fall big temp swings. Not recently yet. Lawn mowers gas cans out in shed.My garage is not insulated, and I live in California with temperate weather. That said, on hot days, the temperature swings from 90F in the garage to 60F at night. This is enough to cause my 1970 car to emit fumes, and I'm pretty sure there are no obvious leaks. Newer cars have a charcoal cannister to manage those fumes, but not older ones.
Do you have those temperature swings where your car is stored? How bad are the fumes? If they seem pretty bad, you may have a leak. I presume you've checked other obvious sources, like the gas can in the corner for the lawn mower?
Top of tank @ sending unit bone dry….Check the top of the tank at the sending unit gasket. They can weep but not enough to drip as it rides across the seam of the tank. Make sure the (2) vents are not crossed. My aftermarket tank had the positions switched and I hooked up short to short and long to long unknowingly. It would spit fuel above 3/4 tank. The vents should be short to long and long to short. It doesn’t matter which end; car side or tank side.