Gas Tank venting on a 75, How is it different from a 74 Options

[Bartlett 914]

Hi All.

I have 2 cars. My driver is a 75 and a restoration project 74 car. My 75 often stinks of gas. I don't think there are any leaks. I never see fuel anywhere only a smell. The 74 I have has a carbon canister and hoses to the engine. These run thru the fenfer well on the driver's side. The 75 has none of this. There are no holes for hoses to run to the engine. The picture shows my expansion tank. The single hose runs out of the tank to vent under the car just below the spare tire.

Mark

[dmenche914]

and my 1970 914 US market (per door sticker) has no vapour system at all!!! it was an early build, I recall the serial number something like 1600 or so, it was built in late 1969. There was no charcoal can, no evidence it was ever ont he gas tank, and no hose nor holes for the hoses anyware on the car, the fitting ont he fan house was even not drilled and fitted Convinced this car never had evap control, I wrote the factory, they claimed in a letter to me that the car was built to US EPA standard (thus it should have had the evap system) However I was told verbally thatearly int he production things were a bit chaotic at the factory, and it could well be that a euro-version car with no evap got stickered as a USA car and shipped.

My early car also had a removable muffler heat sheild (screwed on, not welded) which is different that all the other 914's I have seen.