I smell gas when walking up to my car after a grocery run or the like. No puddles underneath (except for the A/C condensation). The smell is LESS near the rear of the car and more towards the front. It can be smelled even inside the car. Pop the hood and can't find or see any leaking arould the fuel pump or carb. No signs of boiled off gas around the carb on intake. I have looked very closely around the carb. If I remove the air cleaner the smell is very strong. I expect to smell fuel in the carb, but is it possiable that it could be coming from inside the carb and wafting out?
Most of the time I heard of fuel tanks leaking, but the smell is really coming from the front of the car. The smell has been noticable ever since I changed the front jets down 1 size (2weeks ago) . Again I have checked very closely in this area. I may just pop the bowl off and check the seal for the hell of it.
Any ideas?

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You have a Holley...if you short run the car, and the intake gets a 'hot soak' (heat rising up from the block or exhaust manifold after you run it)... it may boil the gas in the carb/ bowls depending on the setup and how thick your carb gasket is...

In other word, after you shut it off and go get groceries, it pukes gas out the mains into the manifold, and smells like you flooded it...

Thicker gasket, phenolic carb spacer, no heat riser flap, etc... can/may cure it....


-D.Idiot

"Yeah that happens on hot days, or after you drive it like hell and put it away wet...at the grocery store..."

I don't remember if you have a vacuum secondary carb or not, if you do check the "O" rings on the transfer tube. If not ignore that. I always screw those things up messing with Holleys, that's why I'm going to go with a Carter/Edelbrock

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