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Old 10-29-2008, 05:40 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Leaky Gas Tank

So, park the car nose down one night (normally its nose up) and come out next morning to dripping gas. Awesome.
Replaced emissions hoses to the tank and intermediate pipe and the one from pipe to body. Put on worm clamps to aid the pinchers.

STILL LEAKING!
It's coming from both the emissions hose to tank connection (the hoses are tight fitting 1/4" ers and and worm clamp is quite snug and on the inside of the nipple where it belongs) and it also seems to be coming from behind the access hatch. Not the pump hatch itself, it's leak-free, but from behind it. Filler hose and vent to filler are both leak free.
What/where could it be??

Any help would be appreciated.

So this explains my occasional gas smell while driving and maybe even my "poor fuel economy". Leave a few gallons of gas on the ground and it'll bring your figures down for sure.
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I'm a little confused on where you say the leak is. Do you mean the leak is fron the piece that connects the rubber hose to the tank?
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Old 10-29-2008, 11:28 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Considering the hose butts up against the tnk, I don't know if its the piece itself or its leaking around the hose. Sorta doubt that though. It's also coming from what appears to be behind the hatch where the pump is attached to. Behind as in to the rear of the car. This is parked on a pretty steep decline for proof of repair, repair being new hoses and clamps. Clearly disproven.
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Old 10-31-2008, 01:02 AM   #4 (permalink)
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There's the pipe that comes out of the tank [one for each line for the filler neck] Are those intact? or are they rusted? My breather line one was rusted, and although I can attach the line to it still, there's not a whole lot left of it. Until the hose was taken off to reveal this problem, it leaked pretty good from there until the hose was repositioned all the way to the tank with the bit that was left.

As well, with mine which I just replaced, the breather hose I had preveiously cut out and replaced with hose, but then the filling line was leaking too. Maybe it's leaking and running down the neck somehow? Mine ended up having to small holes no bigger than the size of a pin head. When I replaced the neck last weekend, the thing buckled in two without much force at all.

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I'm going to run the tank down and drop it (provided I can get the exhaust off) to investigate. If I need to use another size tighter hose, I will. I'll find something between "holy crap thats too tight" and "well it looked right"
If there's a hole I'll either fix it or find a way to get a new tank and just coat the crap out of it in either undercoating or get the darned thing line-x'ed.
We'll see what happens.

Both the filler and vent appear in tact and leak free.
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