Fuel leak

[BigRed-HDL]

I just got the vette out of the garage where its been most of the winter. I took it the gas station to fill it up and after I filled it up I look down and there is a large puddle of fuel running out from underneath my car. I looked underneath the car and fuel is dripping from just next to both of the rear wheel wells. At first I thought "Oh crap there is about to be 16 gallons of gasoline on the concrete", but then I notice that the dripping fuel is now coming down pretty slow ( a couple of drips a second). So then I thought that maybe the gas pump just put too much fuel in and there is some kind of overflow letting it leak out to the ground (I have no idea if there is such a thing, but it makes sense to me). Anyway I drove my car back to my appartment and noticed that when I was stopped at a light I would notice the fuel smell. I get home and look under the car and it is still dripping fuel, but now it seems like it is only coming from just next to the right rear wheel well.

Any thoughts?

 

[KANE]

Sounds like a seal from your twin-tank line arrangement. Maybe one of the hoses is bad coming from your siphon lines from the passenger side. Still, could be from the drivers side, but most likely it is from the fuel line arrangement in the rear- dry rot.

Put it up on the jack stands and check it out.

 

[BigRed-HDL]

Looks like the hose clamp had worked loose on the driver side. I tightened it down and it seems to be fixed. I'll have to keep an eye on it. Thanks for the help.

 

[dens56]

I got back from a cruise last summer and had a gas leak on the driver's side just under and behind the driver's seat, dripping on the floor. As soon as the pressure bled down from the fuel system, it stopped. I took it to the dealer the next day and found out that the plastic (very disappointed it was plastic) "Y" between the two tanks had broken. When comming home from the cruise, I put the selective ride control in "sport", which gave the car a very hard ride. I don't know if that was the "straw that broke the camel's back" or not. Two week earlier we had just came back from a two week cruise out Route 66 with no problems. I was sure glad it waited until I got home before it broke. Anyway, it was replaced and is fine now. The dealer told me that this was the first time they had seen this, (they don't work on a lot of Corvettes).