> I have been trying to track down a smell of gasoline from my TR3, and
> thought I found the problem with a loose vent line connection. But the
> smell is still there and seems to be near the gas tank. Yesterday I
> had the rear wheel off on the passenger's side and noticed that the
> vent line was just an open tube, which seems like it could be the
> source of the gas smell. Is this the way it is supposed to be?
Yes, that's the way it's "supposed" to be, and yes with modern gasoline it
does smell a bit. I've had trouble with fuel sloshing out the vent line, so
I just capped it off on my car. All the filler caps I checked have a small
vent hole in the cap, so the vent line is redundant.
Randall
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