Dear All,
Hope all pw members are doing good. Today I came across a very serious problem in my Datsun 120y 1974 model. In the morning when I opened the car I felt a very severe smell of petrol from inside. First I thought that may be some pipe is leaking under the hood but there was no leakage. Then I looked beneath the car and I found that petrol is leaking from the rear of the car. As there is no petrol pipe at that place, I opened the trunk and saw that the petrol is actually leaking from the fuel tank.
I immediately removed the hard board sheet from the trunk and i could see that the petrol is leaking from the top of tank where fuel gauge is located. My brother topped up the tank last night. We took out around 4.5 liters of petrol from the tank to drop its level. Now my question is that what can be the problem? The car is with us since 1986 and I am facing this problem for the first time. can we get the fuel gauge seal separately or we have to replace the whole fuel gauge assembly.
Thanks,