let me start by saying i am probably the LUCKIEST guy in the whole universe. I work at a bicycle shop here in galveston ( gotta confess, the z is the second on my list of addictions, first are bicycles...
) and at this time a year can be slow so i had a free day yesterday. Well tonight i was going to go get some stuff at my corner store and i get the dreaded smell of gas... i though that was weird because i had fixed the extremely leaky hose on the fuel dampener, so i open the hood and i start the search... boy did i find something.There is a little piece of fuel line off the fuel pressure regulator just as long as the one off the fuel dampener, but this one is more hidden and goes to what i assume is the fuel rail. Well, when i tighten my fuel clamps a month or so ago i completely missed those, the result? there was gas literally shooting out of the line into the plenum. I really can't fathom the idea of my car not catching fire, my car, with a leak of that magnitude, should be burn to ashes.
what caused it? the clamps where completely loose, but as a precautionary measure i will change the line tomorrow morning.
so please people, old members will most likely not like this post because it really is a beaten dead horse, but i still think is necessary. Even if you do not smell gas, grab a screwdriver, open your hood and check the 20? i think, fuel clamps in your car, please do regardless of odor or not, and i say regardless is because I'm sure my leak has been going for weeks, yet i did not smell a thing until tonight.
I've got burned on other forums for making posts like these ( like when I had my Volvo, boy those where unfriendly people in those forums ahahah )
