Author: ErfladySubject: Fuel leak!!!
Posted: 28 Aug 2016 at 8:27am
Morning all. Sorry to drag this thread up again but I'm currently suffering a similar problem with my 58 reg titanium.
I fill up when down to about a quarter full as I can't be bothered with a tenners worth here and there, so went to fill up on Friday.
Stuck the nozzle and started to fill up but fuel kept coming back and cutting the supply off, I thought the nozzle wasn't in properly so took it out and started again, same thing with fuel spitting back and pump cutting out.
Then a voice from behind said, you've got a petrol leak under there, to which I replied, I hope not cos I'm putting diesel in..lol. Anyway, when I looked down there was a sizeable puddle under the car. This chap very kindly got under the car and had a look, he said there was a drip from the tank.
I paid for the three quids worth I'd put in and left the forecourt and drove the four miles home where I rang my fitter, he said he'd pop out later, in the meantime a friend called in and I told him about what had happened, we looked at the filler and there was a small amount of fuel in the bottom of it, I mopped it up and found a small hole I'd never noticed before ( there was a lot of crud in it ) my friend got underneath and found an open ended pipe with diesel on it, having decided that's what the problem was I rang the fitter to tell him he said he'd still call in and check it.
I waited till 6 o'clock but as the fitter hadn't turned up and I thought I'd sorted the problem and as I still had things to do decided I'd go and get some diesel
And yes, the same thing happened again, a puddle of fuel and a fairly fast drip, now before going to the garage I'd stuffed some paper towel under the filler hole to catch any spill and stop it going down the breather pipe.
Now, interestingly while the car had stood all day on the drive there wasn't a drip to be seen it was bone dry underneath, it only drips when being filled up.
So, is it a breather pipe problem or is it, as I suspect, a fuel filler pipe problem.
Any ideas before I take in to the garage next week.....and why dose it always happen on the Friday of the bank holiday.?
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