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posted on June 27th, 2004 at 10:09 PM
Found the cause of the fuel smell.....
Couldn't work out why my 69 bug had a strong fuel smell whenever I fuelled up, thought I'd spilled some on the side of the car each time or
something similar. Found the cause - fuel flowing out the top of the tank at the fuel sender.
After stupidly trying to take the sender off and making fuel gush out, I syphoned fuel and dried it out, while racing off to the auto shop and buying
some fuel-type gasket goo. I have applied it liberally and will let it dry a few days before adding all the fuel back into the tank.
Is there a better way of sealing such a leak? The rubber gasket looked in good nick but obviously wasn't...should I have done something else?
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posted on June 28th, 2004 at 10:28 AM
dont foget that the fuel tank sender needs to be grounded to the tank to read corectly at gauge I ran a seperate earth wire from under one of the 6
mounting screws to a earth point on the body that way you can seal up the sender as much as you like without worrying about a earthto the tank.
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posted on June 28th, 2004 at 10:50 AM
I noticed with the new sender it had new screws and one of them had a copper washer under it instead of a plastic one like the other five. The fuel
guage played up until I did the screw up really tight. This makes the seperate earth wire idea sound good.
posted on June 27th, 2004 at 10:09 PM
