Glen McCartney

I took out my wheel well liner to install some new Hella horns and looked for the infamous plastic tee in the gas tank vent system. Sure enough it was broken, but the hose that is supposed ot be attached is gone!

I have not been getting any gas odors, but I think it is because whoever worked on the car before I owned it connected the gas tank vent to the window washer fluid tank.

Below is the picture from Tony's web site. The window washer tank hose on the upper left part of the tank, on my car, is connected to hose #7 in the picture, can't tell from Tony's picture where it goes to. On the PET illustration hose #4, the uppper left hose on that tank looks like it is just vented to atmosphere. Is that correct, does it just vent to atmosphere?



From Tony's picture, it looks like hose #7above , which I think is hose #12 in PET illustration, should go to one of the Y inlets, along with hose #6 above, hose #10 in PET illustration, and then go to the cannister. The other cannister connection is hose #3, hose #14 in the PET illustration.

Hose #6 in Tony's pic, on my car goes to the vacuum device #18.

So how to hook up correctly? Is the left hose on the windshield washer tank just a vent that goes nowhere? Can I hook up hose #7 and #6 to the Y and then to the cannister? Does it matter which cannnister connection goes to which hose? (Hose #14 and hose # 7 in PET illustration). Does it matter if hose #12 and #14 are reversed when hooked up to cannister?

SeanR

Wow,

That is an interesting hook up. Post us a picture to we can see it. 5,6,7 should be together. I wonder what gas fumes would do for washer fluid.

DonT

Glen ---

PET illustration 904-10 hose #4 vents to atomesphere. See attachment with a yellow line around the hose.

PET illustration 201-10 hose 10 & 12 go into the "Y" connector, and hose 7 ("J" shaped) exits the "Y" connector and attaches to the cannister. See attachment with RED 7. (not sure which fitting on the cannister)

Note: I replaced the broken plastic "Y" with a stainless one, avaiilable from Nicole!

dr bob

Glen-

See the attached page extracted from my how-I-did-it document. It has a picture of the cannister installed that better shows the canister alignment and which of the two rear cannister hoses go where when it's all back in place.

Because I never wanted to do this again, I replaced the hard plastic line from the cannister to the Y with a piece of flexible vapor hose. I figured I'd just take all the strain off the Y, and tie it up securely in place. So far so good!

For those reading along at home, the whole document is available as PDF including the pictures. PM me with your e-mail address and I'll send it to you. It's about 1MB so too big to attach to this post.

Someday I'll invest the time in setting up the how-I-did-its in a Rennlist member page. Someday...


HTH!

Glen McCartney

Thanks for the pictures and the feedback. It is what I thought. The cannister on my car is reversed from all the pictures you all have posted, and the gas tank is vented to the windshield washer tank, or is it the windshield washer is vented to the gas tank?!!. Gotta love some of the A-holes who have worked on these cars, forbid fixing something right!

dr bob

Prepping to e-mail a copy of the instruction, I tried the Acrobat "reduce file size" option and managed to get the whole document, with pictures, down to less than 100kb from a little over a megabyte. So for those who are interested, here's the whole thing, with circles and arrows and paragraph on the back of each one...

dr bob

Primitive vapor injection for NOx and antiknock improvements?

Glen McCartney

Here is before and after pictures - definitely was vented to the windshied washer fluid tank.

Before - note hose connected from washer fluid tank - this was the tank vent connected to the gas tank vent line.



Now connected properly with SS Y I got from Gary Knox, thanks Gary



They even installed the cannister backwards and was interfering with the wheel well cover.