Gasoline Smell....where is it coming from?...6 conversion, Update 5/18 Options

[billh1963]

When driving the car (engine is a 2.2L 6 with triple Webers) I frequently smell gas. This is with the targa on or off. The smell comes and goes...it's not consistent; however, it always occurs

If I stop the car and check around the car (with the engine running) I don't smell it. With the engine running I have checked everywhere and don't see or smell anything. No drips or puddles under the car, around the carbs, etc. I have checked connections on the fuel pump and nothing there.

I have thought of two possibilities:
1. Leaking fuel line in the tunnel (which I should smell all the time...right?)
2. Fumes coming into the cockpit from the engine compartment.

Any other thoughts?


Update: 5/3
Drove the car extensively today and, as usual, the gas smell comes and goes. Stopped while the smell was strong and checked around the carbs...dry
Looked under the car...dry
Opened the trunk...no smell.
Even pulled the gear shift to see if there was a gas smell in the tunnel...nothing

The only thing I see is this line is hanging out in space...could the smell be coming from here?
Should I cap it or does it need to connect somewhere?
Remember...this car has triple webers...it's not fuel injected.

[JStroud]

Bill, unless they removed them you should have two plastic lines running from the front trunk near the brake fluid reservoir going down thru the fender well under the driver rocker panel into the rear fender well then into the engine compartment below the oil tank. On your charcoal filter the line coming out on the side with the small tube should be hooked up to one of the plastic lines then hooked to the air outlet port on your fan housing. The other end "hanging in space" should be connected to the other plastic line the connected to the air filter housing. This would put the system back functioning.

If you don't have the plastic lines you can route the hanging line down and under the car like the overflow tube like I stated earlier but don't cap it.

Also if that charcoal filter line is disconnected, where does the one on the other side go, they both would have fumes coming out.

Hope this helps,
Jeff