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2001 Dodge Caravan: Today there is a smell of rooten eggs coming from my heater vent. It happened after I turned on the heater. It smelled for a short time them the smell subsided. what causes this?

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2001 Dodge caravan v6 3.3

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had radiator flushed

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March 19, 2006 2:56 a.m. (4 minutes and 54 seconds later)

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rotten eggs smell is caused by a large amount of fuel being burned at once, it may be just that you are smelling it when you turn on the vent. i know if you pull the vacumn line off of a fuel regulator it will cause this smell

Edited by pacobadazz on March 19 2006 at 2:57am

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Sent March 19, 2006 3:05 a.m. (8 minutes and 52 seconds later)

how can i stop this from happening?

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March 19, 2006 3:10 a.m. (5 minutes and 24 seconds later)

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