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Anyone have any ideas why my vapor canister would leak gas?


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Is it a 2008 bmw 325i? LOL


For real though, what kind of car ya got? It's possible that the vehicle was put into a "clear flood mode" by a stuck open evap purge solenoid when your foot was to the floor therefore pulling raw fuel through the canister. This can happen when you overfill your tank (never a good idea to overfill your gas tank) . If it is the evap system since I'm making the assumption that canister is already flooded with fuel, you first have to replace the canister and then you gotta apply 12V to the solenoid to keep it open while you blow out the system. After if I'm right you would need to figure out why the evap system failed as could be due to various other issues. 


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It's a 2005 Chevy Malibu maxx V6 i been driving it still but gas drips from the vapor canister so somehow gas must still going into it, if gas got in it just once i would think the leak would stop is there gas normally in there i thought maybe the housing was cracked or something


According to a quick Google it seems common place for these cars to have evap problems and vacuum leak problems. I would assume the same that somehow gas is still being pulled through the canister but also the gas that is "normally" in there is vapor, not acutal liquid. Your canister is flooded and should be replaced, but not before figuring out why it was flooded first. I don't think a crack in the housing should cause such an issue to occur but I'm not sure. Try smoke test through evap system and see what's up.


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