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RyanV

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I just wanted to point out something I found with my swap that could potentially be a fire hazard.

If you use the stock charcoal vapor canister you might want to replace the bottom hose with a much longer 5/16 fuel hose, and run it down along the outside frame somewhere. You can use a couple MARINCO Adhesive Cable Tie Mounting Bases/zip ties to attach the hose to the frame. Clean the frame with acetone fingernail polish remover for beast adhesion. This will keep the fuel vapor far AWAY from the exhaust.

 I could smell fumes when I got home from the pressure in the gas tank. I could see fumes just pouring out of that bottom hose which is right about where the exhaust downpipe is! Yikes! You have to remember the 22RE exhaust was on the other side so this wasn't an issue.

Typically the tank only draws fresh air up through that hose, but I think that with excess tank pressure the vapor can is overwhelmed and you get vapor spewing from that line, especially if it's hot outside. I actually found my vapor canister to be bad and went to the junkyard and found another one that is in better shape.

You can test the vapor canister easily.

this is a link to a pic of how to test the vapor canister

https://flic.kr/p/rBfT4w

« Last Edit: Mar 18, 2015, 09:29:43 AM by RyanV »

 
 
 
 
 

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