Shacking, gas smell while idling
Sunday strange situation pals, need some advise from you all.
Since a couple of weeks I’ve noticed a clear reduction on the mpg my truck does, and today I started up the truck and noticed that when idling, the truck shacked more than usual. Also I noticed a gas smell through the exhaust, not smoke just gas smell. Note that the check engine light never came on!
The first thing that came to mind was to clean the IAC valve, which I did.
Assembled everything and went for a test drive. When idling the truck still shackes and the gas smell is still present. When I hit the gas the engine response is normal, the issue is while idling only.
I don’t want to start changing parts randomly, so, any ideas where can the problem be?
To sum up;
- no check engine light
- gas smell through the exhaust
- shakes only when idle
- normal engine reaction when pressing the gas pedal
- bad mpg
Also good to mention;
- oil change (castrol magnatec full synthetic 5W-30 1 month ago
- new Motorcraft FL400S oil filter
- brand new K&N air filter
Any ideas will be welcome!!!!
Thanks a lot and have a great weekend
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Paysandú, Uruguay
1996 Reg. Cab Ford Ranger, V6 3.0L, 5 speed manual trans.
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