Charcoal canister help please

[hogster]

Picked up an AU falcon canister today....using as much AU stuff as I can so that I can try and ease the compliance burden for the windsor engine.

Anyway, trying to get my head around what is what
There are 4 lines
1 - is blocked
2 - I think goes to air
3 - vent from tank
4 - purge line to manifold

The issue is that there is a to wired solenoid that I think came from the purge line (got a box with stuff unattached). Does anyone know what activates that solenoid or is it simply a case of hooking up to some part of the ignition so that the line is open while the car is running

Thanks
Hogster

[sideshow]

solenoid is activated by the ecu

make sur eu get this right

i had a transit van which i wired up an au v8 and idiot mechanic hooked a vac purge line to the tank direct with no solenoid and no canister

now the transits have a plastic tank so within 2 mnutes of running the vacuum in the enigne sucked the fuel tank together and would overheat the pump so hot u coul dnot touch it

was prob lucky it didnt go boooooooooooooommmmmmm

[stephen low]

Hogster

If the car was at home I could send a pic. Not sure why I don't have one anyway.

One of the connectors into the cannister runs two lines but for the life of me I can't recall any of them!!

Concur with sideshow though, in that the ecu drives the purge action and just make sure this connection is high up on the filler neck.

I used the provided connections on the fuel tank and had petrol being pumped out the purge line not a safe event!!

[stephen low]

Hogster

I should add that the cannister style didn't change much but the layout seemed to although this may have just been my observation on pre AU cars in the pick a part yard.

I'll try and get a pic tomorrow of my set up as it is one item not yet stripped off.

Cheers

[stephen low]

Hogster

Got to the car this morning and took the following picture -

Attachment 14085

This shows my cannister located above and behind the rear wheel in the top inside of the driver's side wheel arch.

Top line is the purge line to atmosphere and just runs around the rear of the arch to the outer side of the wheel well. The other line is blanked off.

The lower connector line leading to the clear hose is then connected high up on the fuel filling neck. The other line leads around to the engine vapour line through the purge solenoid.

You need to think about how you mount the solenoid as when mine turned on you got this strange high frequency rattle. Until I figured it out I was paranoid the engine was having a failure.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

[jess]

Hey Hogsster
it is pin 67 that drives the evap solenoid and 71 (red) if it is working properly it will tick away at idle, hook solenoid between engine vacum and canister hook the upper most outlet the one near the filler cap it is a black little canister if you have the vn tank to the carbon canister the other end will vent into the air cleaner
cheers
jess

[hogster]

Thanks guys -

I reckon that the collective advice has got me sorted.

Thanks again gentlemen, I just wish you all lived in Darwin, you could have had my car built for me by now

Regards

Hogster

[sideshow]

late model aussie cars are a pain in the butt with charcoal canisters

the japs sure know how to build top quality cars goto yr local wreckers and use a canister of one of them

about 1/3 the size of a comm or a ford canister