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@Carlos P   Don't sweat the questions - we were all noobies once.

I don't believe it's dangerous enough to panic over - Many others have had to overcome this, too.

The vent hose loop you show is working as a vent into the tank, but won't prevent the fumes from easily escaping while sitting.  It's better to move the loop farther along the hose and make the loop go down instead of up as you show it so that it will collect a bit of gas in the loop to act as a fume valve, just like the plumbing trap under a sink.  Usually, we do that loop out in the fender well, away from the front trunk a bit, just because there's more room to do a proper loop.  If you take it to someone to look at it, just print out this thread and show it to them - they'll prob'ly understand and can help.

You can also install one of these in the vent hose and forget about the loopy thing:

https://shop.advanceautoparts....wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

I have one of these instead of a loop in the vent hose and it's been working fine for 20 years.  If you go to any auto parts store and give them the Dorman part number ( 47149 or NOE 7301347 at NAPA ) they can look it up and get you one or it's equivalent.

Just blow through it to see which direction it offers resistance (it's a one-way valve) and install it such that the airflow goes into the tank, not away from it.  You can install it at home, anywhere along the length of the vent hose.

Good luck!

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Gentlemen,

The external breather Standt gas caps everybody uses fail in many ways - enough so that I carry a spare, and have the PN associated with my account at O'Reillys.

The most obvious is the black neoprene seal, which oddly is not really fuel-safe. Every so often under spirited driving, it'll swell up and leak. It might go back into shape afterward, but I've never had any luck getting them to seal again.

The other way they fail is for the breather apparatus (which is blocked off in a cap with an external breather) to begin leaking by. Several years ago there was a thread regarding this problem, where somebody (@Sacto Mitch?) recommended just filling the thing with epoxy. I've never tried this, but I thought it was brilliant.

Fortunately, a new cap is less than $10. I'm in Denver visiting my daughter, son and law, and grandkids, or I'd wander out to the garage and provide a PN. I'm sure somebody else will have it. If not, I'll provide it when I get back to my desk.

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@Stan Galat , here's a link to that old post, where I discovered my 'unvented' cap actually had plenty of vents in it. Here's the photo:

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I just used some household glue to seal the gaps, but six years later, it's still good. That blue stuff I made a gasket out of is still OK, too, so I'm still using the same cap.

Most of the fuel smell, it turned out, wasn't coming from the leaking cap, but from the vent line splashing raw gas down the inside of the fender, under the car. A high loop in the line (also in the fender well) fixed that.

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A loop is all you need, but it has to be done right.

The trick is getting the highest point of the loop several inches above the top of the filler. You can do that if you make the loop in the wheel well, at the top of the fender (near the base of the windshield).

Here's the one I put in my car and there have been no escaping fumes since. Ignore the fuel filter I included, which turned out to be completely unnecessary. The fat hose is the line VS installed to bring hot air to the defroster vent. It just served as a convenient mount for the gas tank vent loop.

The only thing that's important here is the height of the top of the loop. No matter how hard you corner, gas won't be driven up that high, so it just drains back into the tank, and liquid gas in the loop serves as a trap, keeping fumes from escaping.



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