Does anyone else drive round with a car that constantly stinks of exhaust fumes

[russ-vdub]

yeh i used hose clips on mine, proper clamped them up and never leaked. Just and asshole to cut off when you removed your lump

[Diamond Hell]

Last time I had jubilee clips on the fuel lines on the Golf, the K-Jet pressure blew them off within minutes.

Jubilee clips are too small.  As said previously you need proper petrol clips.  Any good autofactor will sell ones that it's easy to do up and undo, with a screw.

These kiddies:

[DarnPB]

The fuel lines don't run up the passenger side on my car, they come up the inside of the chassis leg of the drivers side, they pop out just under the brake master cylinder, where they connect to the metal lines which run to the fuel reg on top of the airbox.

Thats what I said!

[RS_Matt]

Do fumes have to be a leak, it can't be down to poor/rich/lean running?

[Khare]

Do fumes have to be a leak, it can't be down to poor/rich/lean running?

if it did stink i wouls say its rich. Check the mixture.

[RS_Matt]

Not sure how to do it without letting the generous Wakefield garages charge me £50+ for their time, girlfriend said there was copious amounts of black smoke when I was reving it up the other day.

[Khare]

black smoke indicated oil burning. correct me if im wrong. white smoke means too much air in mixture and blue smoke too much petrol in mixture. Correct me if im wrong though, cos im not 100% sure.

[monzablue16v]

If you want it tuning when you get rid of the fuel smell take it down to Tony at ART down towards brasserie 99 at the B+Q roundabout, thats where I'm taking mine again when the respray is done. He's a top guy and made mine go like a missile!! I did a standing 1/4 in 15.2 in my standardish mk2 16v he rolling road tunes it for around £50.

I had a really bad fuel smell on the gf's polo and it turned out to be the fuel cap which had gone might be worth checking. On K-jet if you get a fuel leak it will not run as the system works on pressure so you would know about it!

If your stuck give me a shout a friend of mine has just broken a mk2 k jet 8v so have plenty of bits and pieces knocking around

[RS_Matt]

I'll try him if I can't find a leak and the starting problem gets worse. Ironically I currently use the garage opposite the Mazda dealers by the B&Q roundabout, but had issues with a CV boot they fitted on my old VTR.

[Ben Lessani]

On K-jet if you get a fuel leak it will not run as the system works on pressure so you would know about it!

Yup, thats what I was thinking. I reckon its more petrol fumes, ie. exhaust fumes. My car still goes like a rocket, tanked it past a porka at a moderate speed uphill this evening.