"jim beam" <retard-trap@bad.example.net> wrote in message
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>
> when a car starts, you have to dump gas because the motor is not warm,
> thus the fuel doesn't fully vaporize, thus you need excess gas to get
> sufficient vapor density to burn. if you dump gas, then turn the motor
> off? where is the gas now? in the inlet, and /not/ being sucked into the
> motor. so where does it go? it evaporates back out of the air intake.
> thus you smell gas!!!
>
> so that's all the o.p. is experiencing - a few seconds of excess gas
> because he hasn't warmed the motor. utterly trivial.
>

Maybe so, but it still does not rule out a gasoline leak. The risk is too
great to just shrug it off.

Mike