no vapour separator or charcoal canister

[ybl8te]

reading about perished hoses on fuel lines - get a little wiff of petrol every now and then - but nothing i think that's too bad....

so popped the bonnet and look for the charcoal canister by the power steering reservoir and nothing, look else where and nothing......???????

jacked car up, back right wheel off and stone guard to get at the filler neck to the petrol tank......taken back bumper off, un-done tow bar to get at the petrol tank strap bolts and let the tank come down........

found one perished small hose that leads around the tank, origin of this is the 3-way connection block at the top of the filler snorkel - but this goes nowhere and just ends up by the muffler ?????

also there is no vapour separator cable tied to the filler snorkel.........

am thinking this tank is not original and maybe a vl......seems i can only fit in 53 litres from empty..........

what should one do - does all this mean my car is not running properly or is this because in NZ we have different rules as i know the vn v8 calais does not have a O2 sensor as well.....

Your thoughts appreciated

[RSWNEY]

Mine is the same, no carbon canister in the front of the car or by the fuel filler, just a dubious looking overflow hose running from the top of the fuel tank, around the side of the tank (attached with clips) to somewhere next to the muffler (my 3-way junction box might have been biffed when panelbeaters removed the tank a couple of years ago).

It looks like the Aussie VN sent this vapour hose to the junction box cable tied to the fuel filler pipe and then routed a hose to the carbon canister in the engine bay - my brake line brackets under the car have a spare location for another hose so I guess this is where it would run. My throttle body has a blanked off port underneath that the workshop manual says a hose attaches to and runs to the carbon canister - definately never was a hose there.

I just joined the two small pipes on top of the tank together with a small hose and ran a small hose from the pipe at the top behind the fuel filler down the back of the filler and cable tied it in place at the back out of weather. I'd rather route this hose to a carbon canister but I don't think the NZ VN V8s came with them.

You probably could route your tank vapour hose to the engine bay and install a carbon canister setup, would be alot less dodgy than the standard NZ arrangement.

[ybl8te]

seem like we have laxed emission controls over here........everything you say about your car adds up to me on mine also............coool - just wondered if peoploe over the years striped her down when parts broke....thanks for the reply

[delcowizzid]

yes we didnt get the emmissions crap on our NZ ones

[immortality]

yes we didnt get the emmissions crap on our NZ ones

well not until the later models anyway

[delcowizzid]

haha yeah then its the first thing to get ripped out LOL

[immortality]

haha yeah then its the first thing to get ripped out LOL

LOL, i remember when the LS1's first came out. a local exhaust shop literally had dozens of complete V8 exhaust systems laying out the back, cats and all that he had replaced with a decent system he makes and if you wanted work done you had to book at least a week in advance

[VK_3800]

I never could figure that one out, the charcoal canister has no negative effect on performance whatsoever, and earlier NZ models had them...

[immortality]

I never could figure that one out, the charcoal canister has no negative effect on performance whatsoever, and earlier NZ models had them...

some have, some haven't.

my VH does, my VN doesn't and my missus VS does.

I've also had another VH which didn't and neither did my missus old VK