03-01-2015, 12:25 AM | #1 |
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Name that odor!
So I have noticed that when I leave my truck out on a warm/hot day and have left the windows up, there is a nice smell waiting for me.
At first I thought it was a chemical smell, almost like when you smell burnt plastic. I had not left it out like that again for a while and kind of forgot about it. But, yesterday I left it the same way and when I opened up the door, there was that smell again. Now, I'm thinking that it's fuel causing the smell. Obviously if it's a fuel leak I'll get it fixed, but I was wondering if anyone else had a problem like this. And if so, was there a certain spot in the fuel system that might be more susceptible to leaking when left in the heat.
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03-01-2015, 12:51 AM | #2 |
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Re: Name that odor!
Thats a hellofa question when half the damn nation is buried underneath 5 feet of snow!
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03-01-2015, 12:53 AM | #3 |
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Re: Name that odor!
My fuel tank doesn't vent properly so in the dead of summer if I have a pretty full tank it smells like gasoline because its pressurizing the cap and vents through it... Needless to say i already bought a replacement tank lol. I don't know if that will help but that's what makes mine smell
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03-01-2015, 12:57 AM | #4 |
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Re: Name that odor!
Funny! I actually was thinking that as I was writing it. It's been beautiful here in California, but it's really frightening to think of how little rain we've had.
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03-01-2015, 12:59 AM | #5 |
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Re: Name that odor!
Just kidding..."Sortof"...Check underneath the cab for wet spots on the lines. clear out the junk under the seat and inspect the bottom of the tank for wet areas...I dont know if your truck has the vented line and cap but if it's equipped with the charcoal canister, make sure the cap is open and the lines are clear. Iit may be building pressure on the warmer days(whatever they are?) and venting through a less than perfect connection on the vent line to the tank... All good man, I couldn't resist...Check or get a "vented cap" and your problems should go away...At first before the read, I was thinking, dead mouse and family...lol
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03-01-2015, 07:56 AM | #7 |
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Re: Name that odor!
Or, you could send the truck to the east coast where it's 6 degrees this morning and it won't have that pesky odor till about june when it decides to WARM UP!!!!!
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03-01-2015, 09:20 AM | #9 |
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Drought eh. I just saw on the weather channel some guy back east is selling snow. By the bottle or box. They are having trouble finding places to dump all that snow. They want it gone. I'm thinking send it out west.
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03-01-2015, 10:26 AM | #10 |
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yep you closed off the vent by plugging the vapor recovery system line a normal screw up
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03-05-2015, 09:27 PM | #11 |
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Okay, so I finally had some time to look at my truck and I found the problem. After reading through some other posts about the same issue, I checked my "venting" gas cap. Guess what? Yup, it doesn't vent! So I drilled a hole through the cap and ran all the vent hoses necessary to vent the tank.
I left it in the sun for 2 hours and no gas smell. Just the smell of old truck, which I like! Thanks everybody!
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