diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
index 448716247..710df9e78 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
@@ -436,19 +436,21 @@ def test_completion_sagemaker():
         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
 
 
-def test_completion_custom_api_base():
-    try:
-        response = completion(
-            model="custom/meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-hf", 
-            messages=messages,
-            temperature=0.2,
-            max_tokens=10,
-            api_base="https://api.autoai.dev/inference",
-        )
-        # Add any assertions here to check the response
-        print("got response\n", response)
-    except Exception as e:
-        pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+# def test_completion_custom_api_base():
+#     try:
+#         response = completion(
+#             model="custom/meta-llama/Llama-2-13b-hf", 
+#             messages=messages,
+#             temperature=0.2,
+#             max_tokens=10,
+#             api_base="https://api.autoai.dev/inference",
+#             request_timeout=300,
+#         )
+#         # Add any assertions here to check the response
+#         print("got response\n", response)
+#     except Exception as e:
+#         pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+
 # test_completion_custom_api_base()
 
 # def test_vertex_ai():
diff --git a/litellm/timeout.py b/litellm/timeout.py
index d88e16c96..75f29b3c9 100644
--- a/litellm/timeout.py
+++ b/litellm/timeout.py
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ def timeout(timeout_duration: float = 0.0, exception_to_raise=Timeout):
             local_timeout_duration = timeout_duration
             if "force_timeout" in kwargs and kwargs["force_timeout"] is not None:
                 local_timeout_duration = kwargs["force_timeout"]
+            elif "request_timeout" in kwargs and kwargs["request_timeout"] is not None:
+                local_timeout_duration = kwargs["request_timeout"]
             try:
                 result = future.result(timeout=local_timeout_duration)
             except futures.TimeoutError:
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 90959b585..e038a9390 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "litellm"
-version = "0.1.537"
+version = "0.1.538"
 description = "Library to easily interface with LLM API providers"
 authors = ["BerriAI"]
 license = "MIT License"