Gas Fumes

Clete wrote in news:hthoq6ld1flem7o1o88h10r6slm1sr1ka9 @4ax.com:

More likely you've got a rusting fuel line near the gas tank.

We'll see, thanks.

I was driving through a residential neighborhood in the L.A. area one time, when I smelled raw gasoline. So I stopped the car to have a look. When I got out of the car, I noticed that the smell wasn't coming from my car. The entire neighborhood smelled of raw gasoline; even when I walked a block away from the car, the air stank of raw gasoline. Evidently there was an oil refinery or something nearby.

-- Steven L.

Good place to (not) light up a cigarette.

Thus spake dgk :

Guy falling out of the sky to guy flying up: "Hey, do you know anything about parachutes?"

Guy going up: "Nope. You know anything about gas stoves?"

To the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean":

My Daddy leant over the gas stove, A leak in the pipe for to see. I lit a match to assist him. Oh, bring back my Daddy to me.

As it turns out it was the tank,however the brake and gas lines had to be replaced as well. BAAAD shape. That is the first expense except pads in 5 years. Real good car. Knock on wood.

Clete wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

That's an awful, terrible place for rust.

Honda puts a plastic shield there to protect the fuel lines from road- splash, but the shield also traps moisture behind it, so the entire area stays as humid as a jungle, all the time.

Thus spake "Tinkerer" :

Or looking for leaks in a hydrogen line with a candle. At a nuclear reactor in, say, Tennesse (it did happen, including the thankfully, minor fire)