I think I did it! It's always the little things you overlook that mean the most, righjt? I had replaced the short rubber line between the tank and frame line, replaced the flexible hose between the filler neck and tank inlet, new gaskets around the inlet, checked the sender seal... and still the trunk stunk and so did the passenger compartment, when the sun came out and the gas started expanding.
So last weekend I was thumbing through the Parts Manual and saw something I hadn't noticed before: the illustration shows a grommet that goes in the trunk floor for the vent tube to pass through.
I'd never seen this! And of course mine was long gone. So I went down to Ace and got a grommet of the appropriate size, slid it onto the vent tube and remounted the whole thing, and it sealed up tight as you please.
This seems to have cured the problem of the fuel smell. It was something that small!
A .45-cent part. I drove around all day in the hot sun with no hint of gas.
So last weekend I was thumbing through the Parts Manual and saw something I hadn't noticed before: the illustration shows a grommet that goes in the trunk floor for the vent tube to pass through.
I'd never seen this! And of course mine was long gone. So I went down to Ace and got a grommet of the appropriate size, slid it onto the vent tube and remounted the whole thing, and it sealed up tight as you please.
This seems to have cured the problem of the fuel smell. It was something that small!
A .45-cent part. I drove around all day in the hot sun with no hint of gas.
We've got to quit saying, 
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