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·Hi,
Yesterday, I drove my
Hi,
Yesterday, I drove my recently acquired '76 308 back from my mechanic who just checked out my mixtures (and who raves about how strong mechanically the car is).
This sounds odd, so bear with me - some facts:
1. The car runs as strong as new with great compression.
2. All fuel hoses were just changed (5 months ago) on this car.
Here is what my friend and I observed on the way home from the shop today (he was following behind me in his car):
After filling the fuel tank (topped it off until pump clicked) I noticed a smell of gas in the cabin - I naturally thought it was me as I had just gotten some on my hands.
During a sharp right-hand-turn on-ramp, my friend noticed some liquid spewing out of my left hand tailpipe region - he immediately notified me(we were in contact with each other via handheld radios) but I wrote it off as being from condensation as the car was not completely up to temp and he did not notice any steam or smoke. at this time, I smelled a stronger odor of gas, especially after making the turn.
This event happened again during the next right hand turn, and again my friend just observed liquid with little smoke - he also smelled gas from inside his car. I immediately pulled over and shut down.
The engine bay itself did not smell of fuel (only the cabin). I could not see anything leaking anywhere. I figured that no way would fuel be pouring from the exhaust as it would vaporize or catch fire first. But, the left tail pipe had a whitish stripe inside - as if something did indeed run out of it. Again, no leaks could be seen and the car was runnning better than excellent, all gauges "in the green".
After a while (after some fuel was used), this event did not happen again - my friend was watching me like a hawk. I made other turns and no liquid could be seen. Although, I still smelled gas during turns.
My questions are:
Could I have overfilled the tanks and during a right hand turn, fuel was sloshing into the left tank and overflowing somehow?
Is there a overflow tube somewhere and my friend could have mistaken it to be coming from my exhaust (but there was a tell tale sign, the stripe, in the exhaust that indicated something had ran out of it)?
How could it be possible for fuel to run out of an exhaust in a stream like my friend observed?
Of all the wierd problems I have heard, this one takes it......
Thank you in advance,
Anthony
Yesterday, I drove my
Hi,
Yesterday, I drove my recently acquired '76 308 back from my mechanic who just checked out my mixtures (and who raves about how strong mechanically the car is).
This sounds odd, so bear with me - some facts:
1. The car runs as strong as new with great compression.
2. All fuel hoses were just changed (5 months ago) on this car.
Here is what my friend and I observed on the way home from the shop today (he was following behind me in his car):
After filling the fuel tank (topped it off until pump clicked) I noticed a smell of gas in the cabin - I naturally thought it was me as I had just gotten some on my hands.
During a sharp right-hand-turn on-ramp, my friend noticed some liquid spewing out of my left hand tailpipe region - he immediately notified me(we were in contact with each other via handheld radios) but I wrote it off as being from condensation as the car was not completely up to temp and he did not notice any steam or smoke. at this time, I smelled a stronger odor of gas, especially after making the turn.
This event happened again during the next right hand turn, and again my friend just observed liquid with little smoke - he also smelled gas from inside his car. I immediately pulled over and shut down.
The engine bay itself did not smell of fuel (only the cabin). I could not see anything leaking anywhere. I figured that no way would fuel be pouring from the exhaust as it would vaporize or catch fire first. But, the left tail pipe had a whitish stripe inside - as if something did indeed run out of it. Again, no leaks could be seen and the car was runnning better than excellent, all gauges "in the green".
After a while (after some fuel was used), this event did not happen again - my friend was watching me like a hawk. I made other turns and no liquid could be seen. Although, I still smelled gas during turns.
My questions are:
Could I have overfilled the tanks and during a right hand turn, fuel was sloshing into the left tank and overflowing somehow?
Is there a overflow tube somewhere and my friend could have mistaken it to be coming from my exhaust (but there was a tell tale sign, the stripe, in the exhaust that indicated something had ran out of it)?
How could it be possible for fuel to run out of an exhaust in a stream like my friend observed?
Of all the wierd problems I have heard, this one takes it......
Thank you in advance,
Anthony