Prevention
When performing service of fuel system follow fire safety regulations. On cars with injector engines disconnect any hoses after performance of actions for a decompression.
It is the best of all to check fuel system when the car is raised by a telfer or is established on supports to provide access to details from the bottom.
If during driving or after the parking of the car under the sun the gasoline smell is felt, then the fuel system needs urgent careful check.
| PERFORMANCE ORDER |
| 1. Turn off a stopper of a jellied mouth of the fuel tank and check on it existence of traces of corrosion and damage of laying. If necessary replace a stopper. |
| 2. Check, being under the car, a condition of a tank and a pipe of a mouth. Especially attentively examine connection of a mouth with a tank. Existence of punctures, cracks and mechanical damages is not allowed. |
| 3. Carefully examine all rubber hoses and tubes departing from a tank. Check reliability of connections, existence on hoses of wear tracks, a perezhatiya and other damages. Especially carefully check a condition of ventilating tubes and hoses of a tank which often wind a mouth and are pressed or get littered. Track a condition of hoses on all their length, to a forward part of the car. Replace the damaged sites of pipelines. |
| 4. If after checks the gasoline smell is still felt, then check system of catching of vapors (see subsection 2.23). |
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