tzavaleta

On the drivers side of my gas tank (74) i have a line that leaves a black box runs to a canister in the front of the car and then returns. What is this for? Is it necessary? A good idea? I'm currently replacing all my lines and so i'm trying to determine what to do with these.

Thanks,
Thomas

daily_driver

theres also a carb line that goes to the canister to burn those vapors....

71vettman

my 71 has the same thing. It is a charcoal canister through which the tank vents its fumes through especially on hot days. Mine is still hooked up to the tank but not to the carb. This way the tank can vent and release pressure but the charcoal canister will eventually become saturated and no longer perform its job evaporative emissions controll. The reason I didnt hook it up was because I switched my carb among other things so I no longer had the vaccume hookup. The canaster must be hooked up to a switched system so it only recieves vacume at certain throtle positions. Otherwise you would essentially have a vacume leak in your intake instead of the canaster being periodically cleared of vapors. :mad :mad


[Modified by 71vettman, 12:10 AM 12/13/2001]

74Coupe

Tom,

Check back a few days and search for: http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=195858 "Separator Assem located on fuel tank??"

This save me a lot of typing, I asked a similiar question and posted a little info regarding this "sepatator"

Hope this helps

Dick B.

Tom73

71vettman,
Can you scale that pic back a bit, say to about 600 pixles?

Please.

tom...

71vettman

Yeah I know.... that was an accident.