OK, this is a seriously newbie sort how-to, but thought I'd post anyway. I finally got round to fixing a problem I'd been needing to attend to for a while - replacing the holey gas filler hose in the trunk. The car has smelled of fuel since I bought it and I've had the parts for a while but just never got round to taking care of it 'till now.
As the weather has warmed up, the gas fumes have been stronger in the cabin. I could smell it pretty strongly if I opened the trunk and bent down to the fuel hose, so I knew that was the problem. Decided as long as I was there to do the whole thing, so I got the hose, floor gasket and the gasket that goes between the fuel pipe and the filler panel.
To disassemble this, all you have to do is remove the 5 screws that hold the gasket collar to the trunk floor, then the 4 screws that hold the inlet pipe to the filler panel (those are found behind the gas cap). Undo the screw clamps and you can slide the inlet pipe into the hose, rotate, and pull it out.
First thing I found was that the PO had installed some sort of bias-ply generic hose instead of solid rubber fuel grade. It was full of cracks. Then, they'd tried to seal up the cracks in the factory floor gasket with dumdum instead of just replacing it. Topped it off with a foot of closed-cell foam strip to close the gap.
I got a new gasket for the sender just in case, but the seal there was good and I couldn't smell any fumes in the vicinity, so I left it alone.
Assembly, as they say, is the reverse of removal
Got it all back together in about an hour, including new vent pipe connector hose with proper screw-on clamps instead of the tired factory spring-rings. The car now does not smell like gas inside anymore, even on the hot days we've been having.
As the weather has warmed up, the gas fumes have been stronger in the cabin. I could smell it pretty strongly if I opened the trunk and bent down to the fuel hose, so I knew that was the problem. Decided as long as I was there to do the whole thing, so I got the hose, floor gasket and the gasket that goes between the fuel pipe and the filler panel.
To disassemble this, all you have to do is remove the 5 screws that hold the gasket collar to the trunk floor, then the 4 screws that hold the inlet pipe to the filler panel (those are found behind the gas cap). Undo the screw clamps and you can slide the inlet pipe into the hose, rotate, and pull it out.
First thing I found was that the PO had installed some sort of bias-ply generic hose instead of solid rubber fuel grade. It was full of cracks. Then, they'd tried to seal up the cracks in the factory floor gasket with dumdum instead of just replacing it. Topped it off with a foot of closed-cell foam strip to close the gap.
I got a new gasket for the sender just in case, but the seal there was good and I couldn't smell any fumes in the vicinity, so I left it alone.
Assembly, as they say, is the reverse of removal
Got it all back together in about an hour, including new vent pipe connector hose with proper screw-on clamps instead of the tired factory spring-rings. The car now does not smell like gas inside anymore, even on the hot days we've been having.
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