Don't know if this may be similar, but we had this problem on my wife's 69
Sprite. It turned out that the welded seam where the filler stub enters the
tank had many gaps. We think it was sealed up with goop of some kind and
gradually eroded away. I couldn't see the problem when in the car; only
when I dropped it to replace with a new one. (Overkill?). Someday I'll braze
the seam and restore the original tank. But this had all the
characteristics you describe: a smell when full, dripping when full, but not
noticable when the fuel level was low.
At 07:26 AM 7/5/00 EDT, you wrote:
>Thanks Gerard! I drive a 1500 and have a sort of different gasoline problem.
> It is not leaking--I have never seen a puddle or drip of gasoline under the
>car. BUT when I fill up the gasoline tank there is a STRONG odor of gasoline
>in the cockpit until she is run for a little while. After running a few
>miles there is no gas odor. The PO has placed the fuel pump, one of those
>square aftermarket affairs, in the boot and I have replaced all the hoses
>back there when I replaced the pump about a year ago. The gas odor problem
>transcended the pump change.
>
>Anybody have any ideas?
>
>--David C.
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