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Hi Welcome to all and I wish my first contact to the forum would not be, my sportraks broken. Increasingly over a number of days I have noticed a strong smell of petrol coming from the rear drivers side of the car. Today I used £10 fuel going 3 miles and when I looked under the car I noticed fuel running from underneath the car. Upon inspection it was leaking from an object that looked like an aluminium can with big white plastic 'tit' coming from it, with a wire and I think fuel line going into it. It was no bigger than a coke can - does anyone have any ideas please my sportrak is dead in the water before I can at least recognise the part - Thanks Chad
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It is of course as the man says the fuel pump. You really shouldn't carry on driving if you are losing that much fuel, unless of course "dying in a ball of flame" is your new hobby. Unfortunately petrol vapour really is that flammable even in cold weather. A similar problem was discussed on here before, I'm pretty sure. A new sportrak fuel pump is like £370 ...... or something like that. There has been talk of fitting a Bosch pump as a replacement as you would get one for very little from a scrap yard. Whether it would be a suitable fit is another question.