Lincoln Town Car Gas Odor

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JOHNE6411
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2000 Lincoln TC V8 112,000 - Recently bought used. Now get huge blasts of gas odor that only last about 20 seconds, then goes away. Gas odor may come and go at any time, but can always be achieved with a quick, hard, sustained acceleration. Gas odor may be stronger with windows down. And may be stonger on passenger side of car. Mechanic is stumped. Wants me to narrow down origin of gas odor. Can't because it goes away before I can pull over and find. Any suggestions on where he should look please? He has already checked injectors and other obvious places to no avail. Thanks in advance.
Mar 8, 2007 at 5:59 PM
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2CARPRO JACK
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Possibly a pin hole in the fuel line, look for ANY damage to the line or stains where gas might have been under the car.
Mar 9, 2007 at 12:04 AM
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CORVETTE4+3
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sounds like a faulty sensor that controls your fuel mixture run a dionostic test to have the sensors checked to see if there working properly to the computer
May 16, 2009 at 2:34 PM
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