73EXP
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Hey-<br><br>You know you're a new EB owner when it's 9:30 on a Saturday night and you have leaves in your hair and gas in your eyes, mouth and nose...<br><br>( I D I D use hemostats to clamp the fuel lines...) <br><br>I just bought a beautiful '73 today to replace my (sob) hit and run (totalled) '71. The seller was super-dilligent about engine care and the car was garaged for 17 years. It's an explorer- factory air, cruise, power everything. A LOT different than my '71..<br><br>(more moving parts, more breaky breaky
<br><br>Here's the hitch- the seller (who lives 50 miles away)just replaced the radiator, dist. cap, rotors and wires- and had gotten the dist. cap on reversed and couldn't start it for me to test drive a week ago- too simple a problem to solve quickly-and we all have stuff to do during theweek- so when it finally turned over and started today, he drove it down, and I drove it and bought it- ( the engine sounds terrific) but while we were signing papers we noticed that THAT GAS SMELL was coming from somewhere other than through the hole left from replacing the 4wd shift on the floor with a split shifter.<br><br>THAT GAS SMELL was coming from right behind the the right front wheel, where gas is dripping steadily out of what looks to be some kind of vent system. He called it a "breather"- but I can't find it on any schematics anywhere. <br><br>The '73 is apparently the only EB with a 6 way valve (the dual tank to tank switch) under the front seat- from what I understand, the other EBs had only four ports coming off of the back of the tank switch, and the '73 has 6 ports coming off of the back of the tank switch.<br><br>SO--- I haven't had a ride (other than rental) since my '71 was totalled last month- and the plan was- that if I don't want it on Monday- then he'll take it back no questions asked. But I want it- The price was right.<br><br>SO how do I fix this?<br>The "breather" unit that the gas is coming out of has one fuel line running into the top and two air hoses running in and ( I guess ) out of it. It's a round metal canister that's larger than an oil filter. ..<br><br>The seller suggested that the problem was probably in the two lines coming off of the main tank- and that he probably had them switched. So I switched the one on the back of the tank valve with one he had run into a three way T. Simple- I switched one for another- <br><br>Then I took the fuel line off of the "breather"- ( removed it from it's bracket and emptied all of the gas out of it, put it back in it's bracket and started the car. Everything seemed to be cleared up- no gas coming out of the fuel-line to the "breather"... So I left the truck running and went to put the tools away-<br><br>Came back and gas was pouring out of the line to the "breather" again. Because fuel line is only supposed to ( from what he said) put out MIST- is this thing the "carbon cannister" which cleans the vent line air?<br><br>I don't understand- I have two gas lines coming off the back tank (which I switched) and one coming off of the aux. tank ( that leaves the other three lines of the six to go to what once was the 6 ported tank valve under the driver's seat to be VENT LINES?)<br><br>Seller suggested I might have a kink or crimp in one of the two lines from the main tank to the tank valve switch - which would cause pressure to build up and send gas to that "breather" thing behind the right front wheel. <br><br>Anybody know what that thing is? or what could be causing my plumbing problem? <br><br>Thanks<br>windh2o@earthlink.net