Patrick----- Original Message ----- From: "john sadowski" <jsadowski@xxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 3:30 AM Subject: Re: IML: '82 fuel leak
If you just drove home, your tank is still very full. In hot weather, gas can also expand. I used to work with someone years ago that had a 63 Nova & he had filled up that morning. When it got very warm in the afternoon & the car was in the sun, gas started leaking out. He took the gas cap off & probably a gallon came splashing out. I'd put a few miles on the car before taking anything apart.John----- Original Message ----- From: "Nat Hall" <nathall@xxxxxxxx>To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 12:23 AM Subject: IML: '82 fuel leakToday I began prepping my '82 for a 500+ mile touring excursion/vacation I'll be making with my fiancee July 21-26. I managed to get the car properly registered and street legal today after it had been sitting for a while due to a failed smog test resulting in denied tab renewal. When I was making my initial check of the car, I noticed a peculiar damp spot on my pavement underneah the rear of the car. I crawled under to investigate, and sure enough, it was leaked fuel. GREAT. The tank itself is still in great condition from what I can tell. The source seems to be somewhere at the front end of the tank, higher up, perhaps where the fuel lines attach or perhaps the sending unit. There is some kind of heat shield at the front of the tank right in front of where the leak is coming from. There is very little clearance between the tank and this shield so I can not tell precisely what the source is aside from that it is trickling down from higher up. Because the tank itself is innear mint condition, I am assuming there is a bad gasket at fault somewhere.Last weekend I had started the car up because it had been quite a whilesince it had been run and I wanted to fill the tank since I didn't know howlong it would be until I got it street legal again. (I wouldn't have bothered if I knew it would only be 5 days.) So I went to the gas station and filled 'er up. I accidentally overfilled to the point a small bit of gas splashed out the fill tube before I could stop the pump. Then I drove back home (I live a couple hundred feet from the gas station, literally) and parked it. Since this is absolutely the first time I have ever seen evidence of a leak, I want to think it has something to do with my overfilling. Perhapsthe gasket at the fill tube/tank junction is bad and maybe I can avoid thisby simply not topping off when I gas up. I drove the car around a bunch today to get the fuel level down a bit and then parked 'er. I am going tocheck tomorrow morning for a wet spot, and if I don't find one, I am goingto assume it was due to the unusually high fuel level.However, I'd like to find out about any problem prone spots on these cars Ishould check into should the problem prove more severe. My car is the(factory) carbureted variant-- I only mention because I understand they haddifferent fuel tanks/lines than the EFI cars. ------------------- Nat Hall 1982 Imperial Coupe 1987 Chrysler New Yorker http://newyorker.digital-forever.com ------------------- ----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com -----------------This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for theAdministrators should be sent to webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm
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