[Y-Blockhead]

Originally Posted by Bruce

With your hands nice and clean, feel around the steering wheel bracket where it attaches to the bottom of the gas tank.
Give your pinkies a sniff.
If you smell gas on 'em, you problem is the bracket. It is an 85-year-old problem.
Sometimes you can fix it with a coat of tank sealer. Other times you have to have the bracket re-soldered.

Originally Posted by leadpot

The steering wheel bracket has been converted to a 31 and there is no sign of any leakage there, same with the shutoff valve & fuel line connections. Have checked them all by smell and by rubbing a tissue on them for signs of moisture.

Good suggestion but I think he has it covered with the addition of the '31 mount.