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Hey guys,

After the last DECA I did in July,I noticed that I had quite a bit of fuel "spill" out from when I was on the skid pan.

Now, I wiped it off as much as i could, but no matter what, fuel still splashes out (and yes, the cap is in!!)

No matter what I do now, there is always a fuel spillage mark from whenever I drive the car, whether it be a nice sunday drive or on the track, no matter what, it spills.

Now it has totally fubared my paint.

Besides a respray of that whole panel, what else would fix these stains?

And of course, before I do that - I need to fix this issue!

I noticed today (drove to work cause it was a nice day, and the 31 was being emo) that there were ALOT of fumes coming from the fuel tank, with it all closed and sealed and it freakin stinks soooo bad and I dont want to drive this car now cause of it (until its fixed of course) and I certainly do not want to do another track/sprint day and have a shitload of fuel come out on me

Any ideas?

Thoughts?

Cheers,

Chris

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Can you get a pic of the hole the nozzle goes into (hehehe) I have heard reports of the metal thingy falling in... If that were the case, then it would let a lot of fuel splash up against the cap, which would then seep out...

The metal thingy (sorry to use technical terms), stops fuel splashing out, but should have an air release on it for built up fumes... sometimes it splashes out of that...

The insert that was put in for compliance is not glued in properly. They are always lazy. You need to remove it and glue it back in with an expoxy glue. Make sure the flap is down and the breather holes up. To fix the paint all you need to do is polish it.

Thank you gents!

:)

I should have just posted this in our members section ;) haha

I'll have a look at it al today and hopefully get some photos of the area and post doofy

Cheers!

The insert that was put in for compliance is not glued in properly. They are always lazy. You need to remove it and glue it back in with an expoxy glue. Make sure the flap is down and the breather holes up. To fix the paint all you need to do is polish it.

Yup, that's what the prob with my car was.

Mine was so bad I could pull the neck/insert out just by pulling on the closed fuel lid (twisty bit).

I fixed it up though. ;)

Well,

We got some hardcore glue as was mentioned here, and some solvent type thingy also! (i suck with names) and applied it under and aorund the gold neck thing!

Went for a drive after down old pac with some nice corners, yay! no fuel spillage!!

Cheers guys for the tips and cheers to Nath at Grey Imports also - what a legend!

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when i picked up my car the metal fuel nozzle guide thingy was siting inside the car. i thought it was some wierd metal tea cup or cup older. went to the engineer to get some paperwork and he couldnt believe they left it out. he wacked some black goo, looked like sicaflex and screwed it in with some aparatus. lucky i didnt throw that metal bit out.

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