03-05-2020, 10:06 AM
Well, the pipe stinks (still - retrieved this from the dustbin this morning) and the rubber must be impregnated with fumes and my feeling is that over the six-week lockdown, fuel has evaporated at an alarming rate - my car is (was) a daily driver so it was re-fueled weekly and I did not notice any petrol smells before, only when it was parked up unused!
Never got a smell from the fuel filler pipe and I had fitted a one-way valve into the outlet of the air vent/overflow pipe (it was just a plastic screen wash valve that I pushed up the pipe & glued it in place), that does not smell.
The new rubber is "Made in England" and looks the same as the old one, time will tell...
Never got a smell from the fuel filler pipe and I had fitted a one-way valve into the outlet of the air vent/overflow pipe (it was just a plastic screen wash valve that I pushed up the pipe & glued it in place), that does not smell.
The new rubber is "Made in England" and looks the same as the old one, time will tell...