[s-cars] Gas smell when hard on throttle?

[Alvin Labonite]

Gas smell is gone. I jb welded the broken bleeder valve (plastic) and did
some hard runs - no more smell from the cabin and even under the hood.
yippeee!

On 10/18/06, Igor Kessel <KBATPO at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Robert Rossato wrote:
> >>From the best I can tell looking through the Family Album, my guess
> > would be that it is the bleeder valve for the charcoal canister system.
> > Part number 4A0 201 096.  I'm assuming it's dealer only.
> >
> > If the dealer is too pricey you may want to source one at a junk yard.
> > It's common to all NA market 100/A6/S4/S6, from '93-'97.  The '90-'91
> > Coupe quattro also apparently used it.
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
> >> [mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Alvin Labonite
> >> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 2:13 AM
> >> To: S-CAR-List at audifans.com
> >> Subject: Re: [s-cars] Gas smell when hard on throttle?
> >>
> >>
> >> It looks like I found the source of the smell. Any idea what
> >> this is and
> >> where to get this part?
> >>
> > http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/139763.phtml
> >
> >
> > On 10/17/06, Alvin Labonite <alabonite at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> it's definitely noticeable/smellable :) inside the cabin when hard on
> > the
> >> pedal which I noticed at lunch time today. I popped the hood open adn
> > it
> >> seemed to be coming from the passeger side between the headlight and
> > the
> >> airbox. I can see a fuel line behind the airbox that goes underneath
> > but not
> >> sure where its going to. I will investigate when I get home tonight.
> > Any
> >> ideas befoe then?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >> Alvin
>
> How interesting! That might explain the enriched mixture/aromatic
> hydrocarbon smell at WOT in my car.
>
> --
> Igor Kessel
> two turbo quattros
>