# Gas smell

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Tags:** toronado, oldsmobile\
**Created:** [June 22, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865 "2007-06-22T23:47:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![rexy44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/278dde/32.png) [@rexy44](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rexy44)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865/1 "2007-06-22T23:47:59Z")

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I don’t drive the wife’s 90 Totonado, often. But occasionaly I can get a wiff of gas vapor. Does it have the canister on the tank vent?

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865/2 "2007-06-23T01:40:05Z")

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Didn’t proof read well…That’s Toronado, (Olds). Joe or OK, would you respond, please??

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**Author:** ![DARTMAN69](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/dartman69/32/29_2.png) [@DARTMAN69](https://community.cartalk.com/u/DARTMAN69)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 1:54am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865/3 "2007-06-23T01:54:57Z")

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Gosh I know the answer to this question.  
Oh well I am not Joe or OK.  
Good luck

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**Author:** ![Tester](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/tester/32/15976_2.png) [@Tester](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Tester)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 2:58am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865/4 "2007-06-23T02:58:35Z")

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[b]Yes. It does have a fuel vapor canister for the gas tank. And one thing that can cause a gas odor is if the canister becomes saturated with fuel. And the canister becomes saturated with fuel from what’s called “Packing the Gas Tank”.

Packing the gas tank means, when the fill fuel nozzle shuts off, you continue to add fuel by by clicking the fuel nozzle off and on.

Locate the canister, and find the hose that goes from the canister to the intake manifold. Remove that hose from the canister, and gas leaks out from this connection, the canister is saturated.

Tester[/b]

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865/5 "2007-06-23T22:19:45Z")

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Thanks for reading the ?. Some times we just have to risk it…

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/original/3X/1/d/1d47c66a543aa6c5a7873bb2320858f978ff52ed.png) [@system](https://community.cartalk.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-smell/865/6 "2007-06-23T22:22:07Z")

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Thanks Tester for the info…Rex