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willywhyte
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Registered: 27th Jul 05
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10th Mar 06 at 22:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

hiya this problem ive been havin is wuite frequent now and this wat it entails when i fill the car full or near full of petrol i have problems. these include an awful smell of petrol, drips of petrol under the car and also petrol on bottom of tank etc..

now me and my dad investigated into this and we lifted the back seats and looked arond the top of tank there etc..there was petrol lyin around there and then took the top and replaced the rubber seal and made sure this was all tight and fitting ok and then dryed petrol around off and took car for a run and looked again and petrol was around the top again... so we made sure seal and everything was in order and it seems to be so whY is the petrol leaking out through the top here etc.

please help as petrol leaking number one is dangerous and not good.. i dont know wat to do only way around this is not to put much petrol into it but next buyer will not know this

thanks
tooolbox timmy
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Registered: 6th Dec 05
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10th Mar 06 at 22:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

sounds like the tank has rusted rotted etc at the top of the tank hence leaking when filled or other possibility is the fuel pump leaking but sounds as if youve checked that,take the tank off an have a butchers,might show more as to what the problem could be
willywhyte
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10th Mar 06 at 22:55   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

we;; def no rust at all car sound that way well if i take out wat it show me, wud it be anything to do with Rubber around top can u get a bigger one
tooolbox timmy
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10th Mar 06 at 23:03   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

doubt it ,its a made to fit seal,any auto factors would supply you with a seal if that is what the fault is
Lisa
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11th Mar 06 at 08:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

it will be the rubber seal on top of the fuel pump.i had this happen when i removed it to check fuel pump. seal did not go back on properly.
willywhyte
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11th Mar 06 at 10:00   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

how to you get seal go back on properly.. like i have tried to make sure seal is ok and that im tightening above it ok ya know
thanks

 
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