Petrol smell whilst driving

[kevcorks]

So, Doreen passed her MOT after carrying out quite a fair bit of work on her, over the moon.
decided to go for a bit of a run up the lakes as it was a beautiful day, but shortly into the journey I could smell petrol within the cab. It was only really when I opened the window, which led me to believe that it was coming from the engine bay, with the circulating air in the cab making it more obvious. I had recently refurbished and painted the fuel tank and replaced all the breather hoses etc from the front end, so I knew that should be ok.

After openening up the engine bay I found the connector hoses from the carb had all started to perish badly, with the one from the base of the carb to the air filter being disconnected altogether.

A visit to my local motor factors and replacement of these hoses has seemed to sort out the issue. I had noticed that it was cutting out at low revs occasionally when pulling up at lights on occasions prior to this, so am thinking this could possibly have been causing that too.

Hopefully all sorted now, I have pictures to attach but getting the message "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached" so will not let me post.

Thought this may help some other people,

Cheers

KevCorks

[itchyfeet]

Those vac hoses are unlikely to cause petrol fumes imo, I'd be checking the tank area again, just because you fixed it recently doesn't exclude a fault being there, was the tank full at the time and not so full now?

[Ant-t]

As above petrol fumes in the cab usually come from the tank

[kevtherev]

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[kevcorks]

Thanks

Ill have another look around the top of the tank later on. Would you expect the smell to be coming from the tank when moving though? It was when I was doing around 50mph with the window open that I noticed it, I assumed any leak from the tank would be blown away?

The other hoses to the carbs were perished and looked like they had been weeping, so that was my assumption as to the smell. You are correct as my tank was fuller then than it is now though, so I will refrain from driving unitil I have investigated further.

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Thanks all.



KevCorks

[marlinowner]

I would be looking at the top of the fuel tank filler pipe, the rubber there perishes.