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'92 camaro boss

Ok, so this is the second time this has happened to me, first time we took it to a shop, he disconnected some plug on a canister on the front passanger side and i've been driving it sence.. but yesterday i was driving and it did it again. i've attached a pic, and i looked at it and there's a hose going down and the gas leaked straight thru.

is it as simple as replacing that canister or is there somthing else that should be done.

90droptoproc · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:52 pm Post subject:

I think you have a presure problem or something, that canister is only supposed to clean the vapors coming from your tank, never actual liquid fuel, maybe a blocked line somewhere or something? someone else can help you more, but that is just wrong!!

Schultzy89GTA · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 12:59 pm Post subject:

Wow, so that is gas pouring out of the vent line up by the canister at the front of the car?

Almost like someone accidentally put the fuel return line onto the vent line or something Confused

The V6 fuel pump in tank? Been replaced lately?

-Schultzy

Outlaw28 · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject:

well thats a lil scary...that can turn real bad real fast...you might want to find a better shop

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:08 pm Post subject:

Dayum.

Should never be anything but vapor in that line. I ran mine through a carb filter for years with not a drop.

How low does the line go? It may be siphoning if the tank is full and the line is hanging way down.

Twilightoptics · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:57 pm Post subject:

Looks like something wrong with the feed line for that kind of a flow. That's right where the filter should be on a v6 car right?

aaron_sK · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:16 pm Post subject:

'92 camaro boss · Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:23 pm Post subject:

It's right next to the air filter where the canister is.
first time it happened gas was actually flowing it looked like out of the top of the canister, or somthing cause gas was in the engine bay, this time it litterally just flow thru that line, i figured it was a vapor line that's what thru me for a loop.

as for the while fuel pump and everything, it has a brand new fuel pump as of about 6-8 month's ago.

if the line's did some how get switched (which i don't see how, i did it myself but maybe i didn't pay attention)
wouldn't that of been an issue that would of been noticed in the first trip or 2?

i got the car re-licensed a little over a month ago and been driving it daily since and it just now did this again.

i've gotta say this is a very sad day for the black beast since i had half a tank just put in before this happened Sad

Twilightoptics · Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 7:28 am Post subject:

You're right Aaron. Saw the GFX and tire and assumed under the door. Opps.

Do you tippy top off the tank? It's somehow sucking gas through the vapor line... so either the return line was put onto the vapor line somehow? Which would cause the motor to work fine, but the return line goes down into the tank I think?

You need to verify you have the lines hooked up and that the little valve on the 4th line back there works.