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Has anyone recently sourced a good quality after-market rear wheel bearing/hub assembly for the 450? Care to share the details, or link? I've got a laundry list of items to tend with on a cdi, and this is one that affects the drivability today.

@stickman007 just left Chilliwack 25 minutes ago, and will be back in Edmonton tonight! He probably has a couple of ideas! Get your multimeter handy. He had my Prius headlamp issue sorted out in 15 minutes yesterday; I had retrograded to halogen headlamps with brand new housings from a tired HID system in my Gen II. The final connection of the new H4 harness from a newly installed relay behind the headlamp had been hooked up incorrectly, and he was actually able to resolve it with no cutting/splicing/resoldering/heat shrinking! Anyway, his IQ on electrical stuff is probably about 180. (Failing that, it's whatever mine is times Pi, lol.)

Okay, after a fairly decent "Dawn and Gone" power wash yesterday at a friend's yard, which necessitated 130 km round trip drive!!.... I took the smart over to the nearest Shell and filled to the click, and no leaking no spillage, nada.... Garbage can lid bone dry after sitting in the driveway, so back to thinking about the potential that the superfill was compromised by the filler cap gasket potentially, or maybe where the filler neck fits into the top where the metal ring is situated, although again, I'm not 100% sure on the geometry here.... And not really going to worry about it too much, because I don't really need to superfill, I can just fill to the click, no big worries, although I will get a new fuel cap at some point because the plastic clip that holds it to the door is long gone, so a new one would be a good idea. I've never had a CDI leak from doing a superfill, and I've done lots and lots and lots of superfills, as has @Eddie Eddie Eddie, but I guess there's always a first!

Well that is a laundry list! The cabrio I have needs quite a bit of laundering! I just did an oil change on it, for certainty, and I measured what came out, it had 200 to 300 ml too much... I extracted it nice and hot and filled almost exactly 3 L. What came out was ~3.3. Oh sorry, wrong thread, sorry for the hijack, LOL. Snowball will be pretty good after this round, eh?

I'm "testing" a theory that fuel from my "super fill" somehow bypassed the fuel cap due to a timed out gasket (maybe uneven from drying out/getting brittle, not a full seal?).... I actually looked at it last night - and presumably the "bottom" portion of it (from the point of view of where it stopped after putting back on) was wet - the rest of the gasket was not! Yes - I presume the the channel below the filler tube runs out to below the car somewhere... but I'm also not sure "where".... I'm going to drive 100-200 kms, then fill to the click, and if no leak, then filling the vehicle itself, and the filler neck are "not likely" the culprit. It is possible the filler neck is integral to the tank itself. The guy most likely to reply (sooner than later) is on a ship off the Alaskan coast right now, so I've moved on to other projects for a few days. I am doing a roof rack delete on an FJ cruiser once the parts I've ordered arrive, and today, a good friend helped with wiring up my new headlights on a JDM RHD 2007 Prius, of which I have now tossed out the HID crap altogether, and downgraded to halogen! With brand new after market DOT approved headlamps that aren't fogged out and where I will not get electrocuted trying to change a bulb.

No @Eddie Eddie Eddie superfills in the meantime! (He used an electric jack to lift up the passenger side when filling... I saw him do this in person one time at the Chevron on Clearbrook Road at Highway 1 in Abbotsford.)

Okay, took the car for a short drive, parked it again with the lid underneath, and bone dry thus far.... Looking like I will drive it for 100 to 200 km in normal usage, and then fill to "only" the click, and see what happens then.

Okay, approximately 24 hours later, and we have a bone dry garbage can lid, so the vehicle is no longer leaking while sitting, and if it was residual, that has cleared up as well. I've fired up the car and will let it idle for about 15 minutes and we will see if there's anything in the lid. If nothing, then the urgency to resolve this is less; I cannot knowingly drive a vehicle with actual fuel leaking.

Hard to say if this is a "currently happening" leak, or possibly just residual finding it's way out. I'll dry this up again, and see what the next 24 hours brings.

I put plates onto my newest smart cdi a couple days ago after parking the FJ Cruiser for a couple weeks.... Very first time to put fuel into the smart today.... Filled to the click and then up to the top of the filler tube a number of times, as I have always done in all the previous (diesel) cars... Temperatures were only about 30° today, not excessive. Parked in the driveway at home, and then when I went to leave more than a couple hours later, as I was pulling out I noticed a nearly 1 ft diameter circular leak on the driveway Checked it out right away and determined that it was diesel fuel.... Put the car into the garage and went to get something to catch any additional fuel, and in the meantime, a bit more leaked, photo here is the small spot in front of the passenger side wheel About 4 hours after this, there was maybe 50 to 100 ml in the garbage can lid. I soaked that up with paper towels, and after taking the car out for a 50 km drive to burn off about 2 L, which is about what I would have filled extra after it originally clicked when filling I have parked the car for the night and we will see if there's any fuel in the lid in the morning Anybody experience this? Obviously I'm going to get to the bottom of this before the car gets driven any further but it's got to be something related to the filler tube I would think, or it's just a very strange coincidence that it began right after a fill up within 10 km. I'm a little bit rusty on my smart geometry, and can't think of all the things that might be in the vicinity of where that leak is... PS, the cardboard is to catch drips from an intercooler leak which is not yet rectified

Way to go!

Bon voyage to Izzy and Alex! They stayed with us in Chilliwack on Friday night, and then Saturday night I sent them out to the "spare home"/ office / man cave in White Rock... They left me their Focus RS to drool over, and took an Uber to go catch a cruise ship. In the meantime, I have parked the FJ Cruiser while I wait for the roof rack delete parts to arrive, so that I can also deal with a minor leak that is coming in 98% likely via the the roof rack bolts, and I have moved the plates onto the smart. Which incidentally, all things considered, is running not too badly, but it actually has trouble once it gets up to 90-100 kmh, difficult to go much faster than 100. Anyway, lots of little things to do on the vehicle. And of course it still needs the intercooler changed out and the EGR delete, but it's not throwing codes or three bars of death or limp mode or anything like that, and it's shifting nice, but yeah this slight lack of power is interesting.

Welcome....!

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