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Please ID canister/pipe in engine compartment!

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jjbunn

jjbunn

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Here is a photo of the engine compartment in my GT. I am a little embarassed to say that I do not know what the canister circled in yellow, on the top left, is. From this canister there is a pipe, which emerges on the right hand side of the compartment, and is also circled yellow. This pipe is not connected to anything.

Is this equipment emissions-related?

Thanks!

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charcoal cannister - part of the emissions system for venting fuel vapors back to the gas tank.
 
Thanks Tony. The disconnected pipe ...where should that be going? Right now it's just open. My Haynes manual has a couple of diagrams of example emissions systems, but neither look like the one in my car.
 
The disconnected pipe (small circle) should be connected to the float bowls via a crossover pipe. The carbs on your engine are non stock for 1973 manufacture. In theory the fuel system was a 'closed ' system. Any fuel or vapour went into the charcoal canister then to a fuel condenser/separator attached to the RH sidemarker lamp area and back into the tank. Anyway it fooled the Feds.

Alan T
 
Grab a Moss catalog & study the drawing of an engine compartment with all the emmissions hooked up - its a great tool for ensuring yours is done correctly.
 
Hi Alan ... thanks for the info ... how can you tell that the carbs are non-stock? They look to my untrained eye very similar to the carbs depicted in the Haynes manual, minues the big black watering can covers :smile:
 
The ones you have are from an earlier car. Yours came with HIF4's... KEEP the earlier carbs! They're a bit easier to adjust and service, IMO. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif
 
Really?! How interesting. I have also noticed that the front grille is *not* a stock '73 grille ... it's the earlier version with the vertical bars rather than the mesh.

But the tags mark the car as made in April 1973.

You guys are a mine of useful information!
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif We try...

Sounds as if the PO had knowledge of earlier B's and was "retrofitting" that car to be what it was originally intended to be. It's a ~good thing~, BTW.
 
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