Petrol Bomb???

[cajun]

My brother has phoned from Italy with this desperate call for help:

"I was driving very fast on a bumpy motorway and there is now a strong smell of petrol in the cabin which I can't get rid off. Do any of you know how this might of happened or could be resolved...any help would be appreciated, 2000 clicks to the nearest TVR garage!"

All ideas welcome! Thanks.

Bas on behalf of Cajun

[anonymous-user]

I had that on mine.

There are two things it could be.
1) The pipes to fuel tank in the boot, just a case of replacing.
2) A hole in the fuel tank.

Mine was the latter, apparently the tank had rubbed on the fibreglass boot floor, and this had holed the tank.
It is about £300 for a new tank (plus labour).
Castle TVR hunted down someone who would be prepared to weld an alloy petrol tank for me.
They still managed to get an eight foot flame from it though
That cost about £85 to have welded up plus labour.
It came to £252.

Hope this helps.

Lee.

[Cajun]

Thanks Supraman your reponse was really helpful. By a lucky chain of events I managed to find a mechanic virtually in the middle of nowhere and he fixed me up. It was leaking petrol right under the engine - quite dangerous I would have thought.

Ta

Cajun

[anonymous-user]

Glad you got it sorted

Lee

[Graham]

mine did this the other week, there are two rubber fuel hoses in the engine bay ( feed and return) they get hot perish and then piss fuel all over the hot manifold...


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