palebeachbum
New Member
For the past 30k miles, my Mom's '95 Volvo 940 has developed a "pinging" problem that has gotten worse with time. She thought maybe the timing wasn't set properly, so she had the timing belt changed since it was due anyway. This didn't fix the problem and her Volvo mechanic told her the timing is self-adjusting, so it couldn't be the cause of the problem anyway. It occured to me that I notice the distinct smell of gasoline outside her car a lot of the time. Could this "pinging" and gas smell be caused by a bad/leaking fuel injector? The car has 172k miles and runs very well otherwise. The "pinging" and gas smell are worse some days and not present other days. What's going on?