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Fuel smell by intake manifold 200 1980

posted by zrubin on Thu Jun 16 04:21 CST 2005
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There's a strong fuel smell around the intake manifold on my 1980 245DL - I don't see any liquid fuel by any of the injector lines or the cold start injector. There's no odor by the fuel filter. Any hints for diagnosing before I have to pull the manifold to get access to the fuel distributor? Any common failures? The car doesn't run any differently than normal. A couple weeks ago I was tugging on injectors 1 and 2 trying to get them to separate from the plastic holders for O-ring replacement with no success but I didn't think I damaged the lines and the fuel smell didn't start until yesterday. Thanks

Zack
1980 245DL M46 276k
1988 745T+ M46 204k

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Fuel smell by intake manifold 200 1980

posted by mbliss on Fri Jun 17 08:22 CST 2005
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I wonder if you could do a variation on the hose-to-ear method for finding the source of an unusual noise. You'd probably need a short length of large-diameter vinyl tubing to do it, but would sure be easier than removing the manifold if you don't need to! Just be careful not to hyper-ventilate while sniffing.

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'81 GLT 245 @ 259K; '83 DL 175K

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