You do know, I hope, that you're sitting on a bomb with a very twitchy fuse.
Literally. All electronics off - everything, fridge, charger, everything -
no static electricity sparks, stay away from the boat until you get this
tended to.

Hard to imagine the dealer being sanguine over the telephone. Small amount
of gasoline in the air of a boat's bilge can be very explosive. If you're
lucky when it blows you'll be killed outright.

I view this as a life and death emergency, extremely dangerous, has to be
dealt with absolutely immediately by someone who knows what they are doing.

I know I'm sounding dramatic but I wish I could sound more so.

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"Run all 8" wrote in message
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I have a heavy fuel smell in the cabin of my 1997 sea ray 240 sundancer. I
smell (very little) fuel in the engine compartment.I called the dealer and
they
think that it could be a fuel line (fill,vent or line to engine). they
said
that it is rare that the fuel tank in this model and year could rupture.
the
thing that i don't get is how come the smell is in the aft cabin and not
in the
engine compartment, if a fuel line is bad? (all lines are in the engine
compartment area). I did pull the access panel up in the aft cabin and the
fuel
smell was stronger.it looks like i can pull the tank with out to much
trouble.
I guess my questions are.
1) if i don't see any fuel in the bilge, could it be leaking?
2) if it is a fuel line could the vapors vent out of the engine
compartment and
stay in the aft cabin area?
3) if i do need a new fuel tank, is there a place on the net to find them?

thanks for any help i can get, Joe