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On 21 Sep 2005 at 12:46, Jim Showker wrote: > Wow, very interesting. All I can say for sure is that the smell of gas is > now gone from doing hard left hand turns and there is no gas or gas smell in > the trunk. I WILL check it out. Please let us know what you eventually find out, because this is very puzzling. My best bet is that the gas was actually running down the outside of the filler pipe from above, but coming down out-of-sight until it hit that grommet. There are at least 3 different places where gas could leak out up above: a broken overflow hose, a leaking gas cap gasket, or a rusted off overflow nipple. It's possible that the filler pipe itself rusted thru, but it's really quite thick and I've never seen this happen. I have several of them from cars that were rusted out, and the pipes from them are all fine. I'm currently testing an O-ring to replace the gasket in the 72-3 gas cap which always disintegrates. Mine are all shot and I need some way to deal with this problem. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~