Hello,<br /><br />I have a strong gas odor in the bilge. My boat is a 01 Larson 190LXI with a Volvo stern drive. Any suggestions as to what would cause this leak?
Failed fuel hose, leaky carb bowl, fuel dispensed into a rod holder, tank vent hose disconnected, are a few things I can think of.<br /><br />Ventilate it and check all the fuel system connections and hoses for now.
as funny as the ciggerette thing sounds let me tell ya a story.<br /> I was working at crawfords exxon in cleburne TX back in the early 80's. new underground tanks had been installed about a year earlier. the city folk came by with their gas fume sniffer and proclaimed the new tanks were leaking.<br /> called the installer and their crew brought out a better sniffer and determined it was natural gas not gasoline.<br /> gas company sent out a crew and started digging up the drive and sidewlk hunting for the leak.<br /> about 10 AM the hole was almost chest deep and maybe 20 ft long.<br />about that time we noticed the worker that was hunting the leak was seated on the sidewalk with his feet in the hole calmly smoking a ciggarette <br />my boss about had a cow. he ran towards the guy screaming and I headed down south whilhite .<br /> but I figgued it was a heckuva fume detector he had betwixt his lips.
