Kiggsia
Petty Officer 3rd Class
- Joined
- Sep 18, 2008
- Messages
- 98
Until my two 6 gallon outboard gas tanks are getting low on fuel, gas sloshes up into the small tank vent thumbscrew, and runs out a bit along the top of the tanks, and the smell in the gas tank compartment leaks out into the boat and is sickening. Even the regular vented fumes are strong enough to be sickening. So I ran rubber hose from quick disconnect fittings on the top of each gas tank, and teed them together to a single rubber hose going to a copper tubing water trap at the outside of the boat, near the outboard motor. I can now close the thumbscrew vents which don't baffle fuel as well as they are supposed to, and which also vent in the inside of the boat. And yet I'm wondering, has this sort of fuel/fume smell inside a boat ever caused anyone else to try anything like this, probably nobody but me was ever troubled by these things....