Another of those random questions I'm afraid. Having recently broken the
thermally activated vacuum switching valve for the charcoal canister system
and priced them up at Toyota i nearly fell off my seat. I then priced up the
one-way valve used in the system which has also failed on my setup. Again
almost died, and when I was forced to buy 7 exhaust studs and 7 nuts for a
princely sum of over 100$ equivelent (Toyota use 1.25mm thread pitch so
they're bloody hard to get at engineering shops too) so uninspired by the
pricing, was I, that I've decided to do away with the evap system
altogether - i hate trees anyway.
The problem i have is I dont really want to smell petrol vapour all day
long, nor leave the tank sealed (bad idea lol) so do I - a)simply take the
existing tank vent and re-route it under the chassis a little, hopefully
keeping smells clear of the passengers and vapours away from the rather hot
engine or b) figure a way to somehow make it exit through the the charcoal
canister and out, or finally c) keep the existing setup but have it venting
all the time right into the intake pre-turbo and risk vapour buildup in the
intake on hot days.
J
Ray O - 05 Mar 2007 22:07 GMT
> Another of those random questions I'm afraid. Having recently broken the
> thermally activated vacuum switching valve for the charcoal canister
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> J
I believe that the charcoal canister gets purged at cold startup. You could
probably find an electrically operated VSV and rig a switch in the cockpit
to open and close manually.

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