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sigrid moore Posted on Feb 07, 2013

Why does my car smell like burning rubber under the hood after i drove it for a while?

After driving my car for 10 miles or so it starts to smell like burned rubber under the hood. When standing at a stoplight I can smell it inside of the car. Any idea where this smell is comming from. I have noticed the smell after I drove it for a while about a week ago

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it could be the resistor going bad butit can also be the motor going bad also.

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if your brake light is coming on while driving it is because your low on brake fluid that light doubles as a warning for low brake fluid so check it out...

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the burning smell will be the new gasket for the regulator it is perfectly normal for this to be occuring

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Yes they are related. I had the same thing happened to me the forks got bend so I had to replace the whole clutch system, clutch cover where the forks are at and the clutch itself. When they replace the clutch plate they should also replace the clutch cover or vice versa. I don't think it's you it's probably just the car. I suggest you have the clutch plate and clutch cover replaced.

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Sounds like it might be either the fuel filter or the fuel pump, cause if you ran the tank down, you probably had sludge in the bottom of the tank that you sucked into the engine, you can try using a fuel system cleaner, you may have sucked sludge into the injectors running it, Zmax sells a fuel system cleaner, or there is one called RUN RIGHT, I would try putting some of that in letting it sit a few min then after it sat a few to soak in and break down the sludge, then start the car up, kick your idle up to around 1500 RPM do not go higher then that cause you will damage the engine, try that and see if that works for you, if not then I is probably the fuel pump or filter.
hope this helps.

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