Yes, that was quite exciting last night to find 1/4 cup of gas on the garage floor.
It was hard to tell, the clear orange hose in the picture is on the bottom of the canister. I could not tell if the fuel was dripping out of the hose or if it was coming from somewhere else and then ending up running down the hose.
there was definitely gas on the outside of the hose, but the gas could still have been coming out thru the hose and leaking around the connection.
At the worst it was dripping pretty good. more than a drop a second, it was running off the bottom of the canister and then over the torsion bar mount.
when i pulled off the little tiny hose that runs from the canister to the firewall, which i assume is the fuel return to the tank, some gas did come out of that hose. Not a lot, a teaspoon? That hose is pretty wimpy so I assume that there is little pressure going that direction?
when i pulled the canister off the firewall, a little gas came out of it, but not much.
so where was all the gas coming from? is it possible it was siphoning from the return line and pulling gas from the tank? And when I pulled the hose I broke the siphon and it stopped pulling gas.
Or did the gas come from the canister and it just happens we noticed it not long after it started leaking and it stopped when empty?
Right now everything is unhooked and all the lines are plugged. Is the the final answer? just remove that altogther? is there any point to this, other than making Al Gore happy? will it be a problem if the return Line is plugged?
Jim Hardesty
ITC 1986 Honda Civic Diablo Rojo Verde
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