a_j_mair
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did you have a fuel vent valve. small cicular vent that had another smaller pipe coming off of it? is at the back middle of engine. Will try and get a pic
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Sly_SRi
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does it look like this:
Corsa C Z20Let
Black Sleeper Turbo Project
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a_j_mair
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nope il do a wee drawing
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Siberia
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a_j_mair
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Rileysport
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quote:
Originally posted by a_j_mair
aye thats the 8v vent valve, remove it and plumb in the 16v one
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Siberia
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is that... that thing?
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ed
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My 1.2 8v has a fuel vent with a carbon canister. Though I converted mine to 2.0...
I think they all have them otherwise the fuel tank would implode...
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a_j_mair
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yeah that is that thing. i em well removed it pretty much the same as that it fell in half so i bined it. the pipes coming off it were full of black granular kind os stuff
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ed
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Yep, the canister is full of carbon, it's just there to vent the fuel tank and to allow air into the fuel tank to displace the used fuel...
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a_j_mair
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is the thing in my above drawing needed.
There is one pipe going in and one straight out and another out the top
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Rileysport
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Originally posted by Siberia
thats the valve you should now be using 
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Siberia
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if its that thing with the spring i have pictured above... i still have it in my car with i dont think its connected to anything... or at least it didnt annoy me enough to remove it when i was converting the engine...
[Edited on 20-10-2005 by Siberia]
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Rileysport
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quote:
Originally posted by Siberia
if its that thing with the spring i have pictured above... i still have it in my car with i dont think its connected to anything... or at least it didnt annoy me enough to remove it when i was converting the engine...
[Edited on 20-10-2005 by Siberia]
i just ripped it outta my car, and bodged some vacuum hose on to join the new valve to the charcol cannister
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a_j_mair
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that another worry ticked off the list then. Mine was binned and a straight connector put in place, it is this that is now connected to the valve i am told i should be using now 
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