Re: Weird thing in the passenger side wheel well . .?

[drew <drew@dyermaker.cs.uoguelph.ca>]

It's part of the evaporative emissions control - it stores gas vapour
vented from the fuel tank and routes it to the intake manifold via a small
vacuum controlled valve located near the throttle body boot.

Removing the cannister would result in gas vapour escaping from your fuel
tank into the atmosphere - causing pollution (and a gas smell on hot
days.. ;) )  If it and the subsequent plumbing are removed, your car could
fail a visual pollution control inspection in some states (if the
inspection is thorough enough.)

Personally, I'd leave it there...

Drew

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 XXSpArCoXx@aol.com wrote:

>     Ok so I have my rocco front end all apart cause I want to go over it and 
> tighten everything up that may have gotten lose this winter. Now I had to 
> tighten my hood lifts. To do so I had to remove this big black plastic thing 
> in the passanger side wheel well. All I know about it is its L shaped its 
> empty and it hase a hose going to the driver side wheel wells charcoal 
> canister, and the exiting line goes off somewhere under the car. 
> 
> Now my question is this huge L shaped thing one of VW's over kills?
> 
> Can I remove it and connect the lines to eachother, Kinda cutting out the 
> middle man
> 
> It would make getting to my fender lights easier. thats the only reason I 
> want to know if it can be removed. 
> 
> Well thanks
> ~Danny~
> 88 16v
> 
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