Gassy smell in cockpit - Solved! Thought I'd share

[RickB]

There was smell of gas inside from the day I brought Frank home. I tried to figure out where this was coming from, then by accident found it a couple days ago.

The smell would get stronger when I filled up the tank, not so bad as it got closer to empty.

I was cleaning out the trunk / boot and found a broken rubber hose connection to the little nipple coming out of the tank by the gas filler hose. Following this to a canister I found those hose connections had gotten brittle and cracked and broke off too.

I fixed all that up, and no more gas vapor in the car!
Wahoo, now my wife will ride in the MG again.

 

[jlaird]

As I have said before and will say again.

If you have not replaced all the rubber hoses do so. Might cost 10 bucks for the whole bunch at Autozone. Get em by the foot and get like 6 feet at a time. Only a few sizes are needed.

Now, replace em all about every 6 years and no problems ever.

 

[10musketeer]

Re: Gassy smell in cockpit - Solved! Thought I'd s

A lot of times you can't see if the hoses that go to the separater are broken because they have wire braiding arount them.

Take a Dremmel tool and cut (after off the car of course) the braiding away from the metal connections and then put standard 1/4" fuel hose on the same nipples. They will mate up nice and you can now see if the hoses start to deteriorate! Make sure the PO didn't take the exit line off of the cannister and replace that if necessary also. It will take a couple of days with the boot open to get the fumes out, but they'll leave!

This will also prevent the fuel leak in the boot that happens after complete fill ups with the older cars.

 

[tosoutherncars]

Re: Gassy smell in cockpit - Solved! Thought I'd s

What's the canister for? Another emissions system, EGR etc.?

-D

 

[budk1953]

Re: Gassy smell in cockpit - Solved! Thought I'd s

The canister in the trunk is the separation tank which collects gas vapors and is tied into the front canister in the engine compartment making sure no fuel goes to the front canister.