mtnbiker26
Bike Geek
So, my '03 has been smelling like gas the past few days, both in and outside the car. I did some poking around and I found fuel running down the front edge of the tank. At first I thought that it was the seam in the tank but the fuel was actually leaking out where the fuel pump body, gasket, and cover plate all come together on the top of the tank. There's an access under the rear seats which explains the smell inside the car. There were eight TINY phillips head screws holding the cover on and the whole thing was really corroded. I thought that I was effed but my dad used to be a diesel mechanic so he came over. We used a brand new (sharp and pointy) hand held (manual) impact tool to hammer the heads and clean them up so a phillips could grab the screws. It took about an hour but we got all eight screws out. Turns out that the plastic pump body got all eaten away somehow so the fuel was just going under the gasket, pooling up, and then running down the tank into the tank shield thing. The car only has 71,000 miles on it, this seems like an odd thing to have happen. Now I'm waiting until the Holiday weekend is over to call the dealer and try to get a fuel body.
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