Notice this for some time now. Does not smell like gas. What is it? It never disappear nor anything. Always there. Im talking about that wet looking thing on my gas tank
Should I be worried? Is this a gas leak?
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Notice this for some time now. Does not smell like gas. What is it? It never disappear nor anything. Always there. Im talking about that wet looking thing on my gas tank
No water in the spare tire area nor trunk. No water in the car, I have yet to wash the car with soap. Its been 5 months since I own the car and it was wash only once 3 months ago.
EDIT.. I just went outside to touch it. Its dry, still there, but when I wipe my finger on it, it feels dry yet greasy like? Sort of like when you spill motor oil on the engine and you wipe your finger over it, Only its drier. I threw some water onto a dry section and it does not feel like that other part. Few months back it was more wet but not that wet.
EDIT.. I just went outside to touch it. Its dry, still there, but when I wipe my finger on it, it feels dry yet greasy like? Sort of like when you spill motor oil on the engine and you wipe your finger over it, Only its drier. I threw some water onto a dry section and it does not feel like that other part. Few months back it was more wet but not that wet.
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dbsupra90;884896 said:
The car has been garage kept by the last owner and has never moved for years. I brought it home and it was still clean from being under the covers.
I remember removing the access panel and saw nothing of that other then just dust.
some people use tire shine stuff on it to make it black again as it's a rubberized undercoating (like I do)
The area that is dry has just been washed better from either you or just driving it...
The area that is dry has just been washed better from either you or just driving it...
That's gas leaks . When i first got my supra , it does that everytime i filled up the gas tank . I replaced all gastank gaskets that i could order from toyota dealer + mk4 fuel pump at the same time , no more fuel leak after that .I'm sure that's fuel leaks , only fuel can do that to your gastank , water can't.
jetjock;884867 said:
lol... come on now, that was low.
I don't suggest tasting around for gasoline.
I am still really kinda shocked that none of you guys have ever just tasted a fluid to identify it at least one time in your life... It isn't all the time that you just know what something is....
For the record though, I don't taste everything. I never learned the tastes of the fluids willingly either; I learned most all of them from having them spill on my face while under a car.
Sorry, couldn't help myself. I used to work around machines full of chemicals that could kill, a few so potent their olfactory levels are higher than their lethal doses. Put another way by the time you smelled them you were already dead. While not that bad the simple truth is cars are full of poisons and I go out of my way not to smell, taste, or touch any of them. Bottoms up to you though 
LOL...ain't it the truth
Aircraft will cure ya of ever touching fluids of any kind. One I was associated with used LOX (liquid oxygen) for the O2 system and would drip when freshly filled...touching LOX will ruin your whole day. Another used hydrazine as the fuel for an EPU (emergency power unit)...that stuff is truly nasty too.
Aircraft will cure ya of ever touching fluids of any kind. One I was associated with used LOX (liquid oxygen) for the O2 system and would drip when freshly filled...touching LOX will ruin your whole day. Another used hydrazine as the fuel for an EPU (emergency power unit)...that stuff is truly nasty too.
jetjock said:
Amen to that. Add me to the "never tasted a fluid to know what it was" list.
I start ripping apart the car to figure it out, not sacrifice your well-being....
Do yourself a favor and drop the tank.
gtsfirefighter
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johnathan1;885243 said:
That's for sure. Even the smallest of leaks will make almost impossible to be around the car.
Was it like that when you bought the car? It looks as if something oily leaked onto it at one time.
jdub;885177 said:LOL...ain't it the truth
Aircraft will cure ya of ever touching fluids of any kind. One I was associated with used LOX (liquid oxygen) for the O2 system and would drip when freshly filled...touching LOX will ruin your whole day. Another used hydrazine as the fuel for an EPU (emergency power unit)...that stuff is truly nasty too.
LOX is definitely some bad stuff if it touches your skin. When I would fill the lox converters on the C-141, it would purge and go into the drip pan. Then I would find the closest insect and drop it in the boiling lox. It was freeze instantly.
The hydrazine is most certainly nasty!!!! An aircraft where I was deployed at (can't say which one) had that stuff. They say it can kill you with a minimum amount of exposure.
One last bad fluid that I can think of is Skydral (hydraulic fluid). That stuff can do some damage. I've heard of people that have used it for paint stripper with no problems. They use it on the other aircraft that we have here, not the one that I work on.
Yeah no gas small at all. I brought the car like that and thought it was a sealant, then I realize the person I brought it from would be too lazy to seal it.