Fuel leak

Discussion in 'General Motoring' started by John Duffey, Oct 24, 2006.

  1. John Duffey

    John Duffey Guest

    Noticed when getting a slow puncture patched up that my 406 has been
    leaking petrol.

    I did wonder why I'd been doing less than a hundred miles per fifteen quid
    for the past few weeks.

    The peccy had been dripping down slowly from around the fuel tank.
    The chaps at the local National Tyres let me use their lift to investigate
    the source. After drying off the tank, I suspected that the filter was
    the culprit. Got myself a replacement filter, got the car home, put it up
    on stilts, took the rear wheel off, forced the old filter off (the very
    devil of a job it was - the clips had siezed solid) and installed the new
    one. It always puzzles me why the car designers put something like filters
    in a place that can only be reached by a left-handed dwarf, but it seems
    so far (fingers crossed) to have done the trick.

    I'll give it a couple more days to see if I've got it sorted.

    John
     
    John Duffey, Oct 24, 2006
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  2. John Duffey

    Fitzy. Guest

    You would only need a couple of seconds, not days to find out if its
    rectified.
    Good luck and Good job,
    Fitzy
     
    Fitzy., Oct 24, 2006
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