Smell gas when I'm accelerating
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Smell gas when I'm accelerating
I've got the ol trusty 3VZE in my 90 pickup. I just did the intake mod for replacing the air intakes lines & baffles with the straight piece of pipe & it runs like a champ, but I smell gas when I first take off from a stop. Anyone know what might cause this? Also, when I idle with a hot engine, it idles fine around 800-900 rpm, but when the engines hot & I start it, it barely stays running at 300-400 rpm. Any ideas? Thanks for the advice. -- FRED! ---
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hey fred...i was having the same problem off and on for about 2 months...then one day i pulled my yota out of my driveway and stopped to get something out of the house...when i came back i noticed a nice drip comming from the back of my truck...up above the gas tank there is a section(only about and inch or two long)of hard gas line that is not wrapped with any protective tape(or whatever they use)...so after dropping that(thankfully i had very little gas in the tank) and replacing the rotted out section with a piece of flex pipe...problem solved...
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I've checked for leaks many times & all along the fuel system. It doesn't smell like raw gasoline. It almost smells like there's an air or exhaust leak. Could a bad catalytic cause this? Maybe a bad O2 sensor? I also read somewhere on here that the 3VZE's are notorious for running rich.
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Originally Posted by yotaluver
if it iz a gas leak u should fix it really soon kuz they start fires (guess u knew that)
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