Mike 92 XLT
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Recently the Explorer has started to smell like fuel inside the car after it's been sitting for awhile. I'll drive it for awhile, park it, come back, and the interior will just stink of gasoline. It doesn't smell like gas outside the car though. The smell will usually go away once I start driving (probably because I'm getting fresh air circulating through the HVAC system), BUT...tonight, I drove to a late class, parked, and came back two hours later. Car smelled, smell went away quickly after I started to drive. Drove over to my girlfriend's, parked for about half an hour. We came out to go to my place, got in the car, my girlfriend noticed the smell right away. Started the car, started to drive off, and for about ten seconds or so it stank of raw fuel. It smelled absolutely horrible. I've been digging around old threads and came up with this:
[here goes- most people replace the canister thinking it is bad that will cost you about 74 dollars (i believe) heres the route i took i replaced that little selinoid, which cost $26 from ford. replacing this solved my problem
why it works(theory)- the canister sucks in the fumes that your gas tank gives off while it sits at in the sun or where ever it sits. when you start your car the selinoid opens up to release the fumes into he intake manifold to be burned off. when the seliniod goes bad it no longer releases the fumes, the canister gets "full" and starts realeasing the fumes into the air]
Does this sound like what's happening to mine? The only other things I can think of are either the evap canister, or the FPR, but performance hasn't degraded, and neither has the gas mileage. Anyone know the PSI spec on the FPR so I can have my mechanic test it? Or is my canister bad since it isn't sucking in the fumes that the gas tank gives off while it's sitting (according to the quoted post above)? Or is it full since the solenoid went bad?
peace
Mike
[here goes- most people replace the canister thinking it is bad that will cost you about 74 dollars (i believe) heres the route i took i replaced that little selinoid, which cost $26 from ford. replacing this solved my problem
why it works(theory)- the canister sucks in the fumes that your gas tank gives off while it sits at in the sun or where ever it sits. when you start your car the selinoid opens up to release the fumes into he intake manifold to be burned off. when the seliniod goes bad it no longer releases the fumes, the canister gets "full" and starts realeasing the fumes into the air]
Does this sound like what's happening to mine? The only other things I can think of are either the evap canister, or the FPR, but performance hasn't degraded, and neither has the gas mileage. Anyone know the PSI spec on the FPR so I can have my mechanic test it? Or is my canister bad since it isn't sucking in the fumes that the gas tank gives off while it's sitting (according to the quoted post above)? Or is it full since the solenoid went bad?
peace
Mike