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When you fill the car with gas if you dont stop when it is full and you continue to make the tank take more, you dont leave any room for expansion. The fuel expands and can cause orings to fail when it gets warm. If you have trouble filling the tank because of the issue that you stated, the problem might be due to a collapsed filler hose. If you are running the engine when you fill it, the noise is from the fuel return line.
By you saying the engine "Dies" I am going to assume it restarts. If the timing belt failed the engine would not start again until the belt was replaced. So it could be a fuel or electrical problem.
Sounds like you could have gotten some water in your fuel tank from that fill up. Go to a autoparts store and get a product to put in the tank that takes care of water in fuel. Use it when you fill the tank up a few times after and hopefully it goes away. Whenever you can't sustain power in the engine or it runs rough then your cruise control will constantly be shut off because the engine doesn't have the power to keep the speed up and should go away once your engine is running clean again.
Some vehicles have a bleed valve at the thermostat. If you can not find one I recommend having it vacuum filled, that is how our shop does it. If you can not afford to have that done and you can not find the bleed valve then this will help. Fill your radiator. Starting with the lower hose and squeeze the hose until you see no more bubbles coming out of radiator or radiator tank. A RADIATOR TANK IS NOT THE SAME AS AN OVERFLOW TANK. Do this slowly until no more bubbles come to the top. Do this with the top hoses, heater hoses, ect... Drive vehicle until at operating temp, then allow to fully cool and check coolant level in radiator and radiator tank. Repeat.
maybe the gas smell is on your hands? or it's just kind of lingering for a while. as long as it goes away after a little while, and you don't notice that your gas is leaking out of the tank I would think everything is fine.
Try leaving the gas cap off after the next time you fill her up. A car's gas tank has to vent when gas vapors expand in the tank. Usually there's a valve in the gas cap.
Conversely once you fill your car up, and then burns fuel, if it isn't able to **** a little air in, then it'll VACUUM LOCK. Kinda like when you have a straw in a Coke, then you put you finger over it, and lift it out? The Coke stays in the straw until you release your finger off it. In this analogy the Coke is the gasoline and the cup is your engine.
If the gas tank can't draw any air in, then it won't allow the fuel to flow.
This is the simplest thing I can think of to check. Other than that, it could be a problem with any of the fuel/air electronics.
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