help! terrible fuel smell!!!

[roughbird86]

I have developed this awful fuel smell in my car when I am stopped. I have not seen any fuel leak anywhere and I have run my hands the length of the fuel lines and have noticed nothing. Any suggestions?

[BobbyZ72]

fuel pressure regulator? When you say stoped,,,do you mean when the car is off?

[roughbird86]

no, when I come to a stop on the street the smell intensifies but seems to blow away when I get moving again. When I turn the car off, I can still smell it for a time, but then goes away. Burning too lean? or evap canister? Is that something I can easily change? Haynes manual doesn't help much with that.

[BLLDOGG]

you probably have an evap leak. do you have a code?

[roughbird86]

not throwing a code, how hard to change the evap can?

[mwh27]

That happend to me before. It was a combo of fill-up spill around the tank, and the cap being loose.

I just washed it, and it went away.

Maybe?

[roughbird86]

In my world, things don't work out like that. I'm gonna check on all of these suggestions in the morning, but I have an appt at my favorite crook this weekend to get it looked at. We'll see.