Gasoline smell in the garage

[San Diego GTR]

I'm sure this has been posted before, but not for some time. I just filled my tanks for the first time and there is quite a gas odor. Has anyone got any good ideas about resolving this?
Paul

[andygtt]

The smell is most likelly comming from the rubber filler pipes, you could have these made in alloy instead which may stop quite a bit of the smell.

[crafty]

Vent the tanks though a charcoal filter as is required by Euro 4 evaporative emissions.... I have this on mine. I welded in a (3/8"?)spigot to the short alloy (2"?) pipe on the filler (the end that attaches to the bent rubber hose) Connected the two spigots to a tee and ran the line to the charcoal filter.

My LS has a sensor in the system, when the pressure is high it uses vacuum to suck fumes through the charcoal filter. I guess you could set this up with constant vacuum?? I think it vents through there when stationary also?

[San Diego GTR]

Grant,
Thanks that is great help. What canister did you buy?
Paul

[Steve_D]

I had the same smell and borrowed a gas sniffer from work.
I was getting higher readings when holding the sensor beside a fuel pipe than when I poked it down the filler neck, or into the carb, so in my case the problem was not related to venting the tank so a charcoal canister would not have solved the problem.

PTFE lined fuel hose should fix it.

Steve

[crafty]

Steve is (again) correct. I understand that to register in Australia they had to go through full evaporative emissions testing and the hoses were a large contributor to evaporative emissions. One of the guys from Germany may be able to comment if they had to do the same there to get through TUV and how they did it.

The canister I have is from a Corvette.

[San Diego GTR]

Thanks Guys. This is great help. I am looking at this product. Please tell me if you think it would seal off the fumes.

http://www.hosecraftusa.com/model.php?modelUID=222

Paul

[crafty]

... but most importantly - is it shiny?

[Steve_D]

Would appear to do so.
I do prefer the stainless steel braided look for the hoses in the engine bay so you may want to look further into the custom car market to see if you can find some with the teflon inner.

Here you go, a couple of Google hits to get you started.

http://www.paragonperformance.com/

http://delikon.com/teflon.html

Steve

[ROWDYRENAULT]

Hi guys: the canister is a great idea. The bad part is finding one to fit in the limited space. I got tired of trying different shaped canisters so i cut one in half to see what made it work. All the thing is, is a tank with a center divider up the middle 85% of the way. The hose from the filler neck goes to a fitting on the bottom of one side, the vapor goes up through the medium then the fumes transistion over the top of the barrier go down through the second side out another fitting on the bottom and you send the vapors where you want them. The great deal about this solution was I was able to build the tank to fit under the lip in the back of the firewall and take up virtualy no room that was usable for something else. If I was smart ebnough to post pictures I would, but I'm not, therefore the long written explination. lEE