I smell gas
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Car: 89 camaro rs
Engine: 2.8L v6
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I smell gas
Just bought a 89 camaro rs. The engine runs good, but i smell gas when i drive...the car seems like it is burning through gas at an abnormal rate...i dont race, or spin out, so what the hell could it be? any help would be great
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Car: 1988 camaro
Engine: cammed 3.1
Transmission: 700r4
Axle/Gears: 10 bolt 3.42
Re: I smell gas
I temporarily have my catalytic converter hollowed out till I can get a new one and the exhaust smells like gas, maybe yours is hollowed out.
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There is a fitting with a tube coming out of it in the fuel rail under the plenum on the driver side. this fitting & tube feeds the cold start injector. the gasket below the fitting can leak, i would check it. Also the two rubber lines that feed the fuel rail, you'll see them on the driver's side just behind the a/c compressor, those can leak if not tight, or they can split and leak fuel. those are the causes of gas smell i my have found with my '88 sport coupe.
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Car: 1986 Firebird
Engine: 2.8L
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Re: I smell gas
I thought my gas smell was from my evap system, I was going to block off my charcoal canister and go to a vented gas cap untill I could get everything to replace the canister and purge valve. When I went to pep-boys They let me take the cap out to see if it was the right tread(their system only shows the origional replacement), I took off the locked cap the PO had put on the car and found out it was a vented cap. Since the evap system was installed and I had changed all the vacuum hoses I bought a non vented cap. No more gas smell, and reclaimed about 3mpg. So check your canister, vacuum hoses and gas cap.
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