Gasoline smell in a Porsche 944. I found it. It’s the filter. When you take the carpeting out of the back, then take the foam cover off the gas tank, you find a white cloth type material. This is the “Activated Carbon” filter that the manual refers to. Mine needs to be replaced, as leaning towards it got me a face-full of gasoline. There are two gas lines coming from the tank, but they look to be in good order. That’s good because those look like a total turkey to replace.
I took out the retarded after market cruise. That was satisfying. There’s some kind of speed sensor going probably to my ECU or to a wheel (I’m not sure what monitors speed on it, but I’m betting it’s going to a gadget on a wheel. I started a leftover parts pail, which currently has a lot of ugly wires, fuseable links (very handy to have as a shoddy one is 3.99 at radio shack) and little plugs. There is still some kind of insane doo-dad connected to the power lock mechanism, but that’s on the way out. I’ll need to take off the dashboard to get at it, unfortunately. That looks like a complete pain in the ass; I’d like to mention. I’ll fix the speedometer while I’m at it, I suppose.
So, mysteries solved, but nothing actually fixed (save the removal of the stupid stick)
Next time I’ll finish the cruise removal and remove the rest of the stereo. Hokeyjoke McMoron thought it would be a good idea to wire that into the key switch rather than establishing a persistent power circuit for it. I, personally, don’t want the radio to turn off with the car. I like it to be on all the time, and to manually cut power to it.