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Old 01-09-2003, 08:52 AM
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z28 smells gasoline

hi everyone.
i just bougth a 89 iroc z28. it has a 5.7 with TPI. it goes very well but i think there is a problem. it smells gasoline and it is eating about 1 liter of gasoline each 2 miles. is it normal? what can be wrong?
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Old 01-09-2003, 11:18 AM
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Sounds like it has a serious leak somewhere...

Get underneath it and see where it drips. Shouldn't be too hard to see that much fuel all over something.
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