International Scout II fuel filler tube.

I was filling up my 72 Scout II the other day and I started to smell even more gas than usual.  I looked around and noticed that Fuel was leaking from up inside the body just about where the fuel filler spout is.   It was not a big leak but big enough to make a puddle.   when I got home I removed the spare tire  and opened the access panel.  It is pretty dirty and hard to see inside there.  I could see well enough to know that the fuel was leaking just were I though,  the back side of the fuel filler tube.

To replace it, I first drove to a car wash with a pressure washer and spent about $3 and jammed that wand up inside that rear quarter panel and washed the heck out of it.   Then I let it dry for a couple of days and that made the job a lot easier.  It was still a dirty job.  While I was in there I also changed out all of the little rubber tubes that distribute the fuel vapor from the tank to the vapor collector.   After looking at the old broken filler tube, it looks like letting the gas spout hang from the fuel filler tube was the cause.