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<blockquote data-quote="Throttlehogg" data-source="post: 14624118" data-attributes="member: 109312"><p>I know, I know, I've been a bad girl. No more lurking. Thanks for the welcome. I'm not even going to tell you how long it's been since that filter was changed - it's embarrassing. Nevertheless, I have a couple of more details to add now that I'm done for the day. While poking around back there I discovered that the fuel filler neck seal is leaking, it looked to be dry rotted so I've bought a new one and will change that soon. Normally, I would blame any discoloration on rust and/or crud in the tank, but this one is different. I poured the majority of the fuel in the filter into a clean bucket and after all the fuel evaporated, what was left behind in the bottom of the bucket was a thick oily sludge. Like the crud stuck on the bottom of your motor after you've ignored an oil leak for awhile. Definitely not rust. </p><p></p><p>Since I already had the car in the air, I thought I'd go ahead and do an oil change, and wouldn't you know it, the old oil smelled like gas! Weird. There has got to be a way that the two are coming into contact with each other. What about a bad piston ring? Could they be intermingling in the cylinder? What happens to unburned fuel? Doesn't it go back to the tank? Usually I'd first reference the shop manual when confronted with this kind of dilemma; however, I can't use my damn shop manual anymore because it runs only on XP and the Virtual XP I previously used to run it in a Win 7 environment doesn't work with Win 8. Chilton's and Haynes are virtually worthless anymore...ARRGH!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Throttlehogg, post: 14624118, member: 109312"] I know, I know, I've been a bad girl. No more lurking. Thanks for the welcome. I'm not even going to tell you how long it's been since that filter was changed - it's embarrassing. Nevertheless, I have a couple of more details to add now that I'm done for the day. While poking around back there I discovered that the fuel filler neck seal is leaking, it looked to be dry rotted so I've bought a new one and will change that soon. Normally, I would blame any discoloration on rust and/or crud in the tank, but this one is different. I poured the majority of the fuel in the filter into a clean bucket and after all the fuel evaporated, what was left behind in the bottom of the bucket was a thick oily sludge. Like the crud stuck on the bottom of your motor after you've ignored an oil leak for awhile. Definitely not rust. Since I already had the car in the air, I thought I'd go ahead and do an oil change, and wouldn't you know it, the old oil smelled like gas! Weird. There has got to be a way that the two are coming into contact with each other. What about a bad piston ring? Could they be intermingling in the cylinder? What happens to unburned fuel? Doesn't it go back to the tank? Usually I'd first reference the shop manual when confronted with this kind of dilemma; however, I can't use my damn shop manual anymore because it runs only on XP and the Virtual XP I previously used to run it in a Win 7 environment doesn't work with Win 8. Chilton's and Haynes are virtually worthless anymore...ARRGH! [/QUOTE]
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