Charcoal canister removal , help

[Murdered LCR]

Has any one done this ? If so is it hard to do how do I do it , any guides about want to rip it out and remove it ,

Thanks Dan

 

[DaNnY_LaD]

rip out all the piping dan and leave the Canister pluged in to the actual circle bit on top which pulls out the box....

then Blank off the nipple on top of the Throttle bodie im doing mine today...you will get a EML light every so often but it wont effect the car at all..

Im thread digging at the moment for a Resistor for it....and same for the n249....

 

[ADAM_84]

Even with a resistor in place of N249 you'll still eventually get a light come up

 

[CJRamze]

What is its function?
I see alot of people removing alot of things from the engine bay and It makes me wonder because if they did nothing positive they wouldn't really spend thousands on RnD

 

[DaNnY_LaD]

Charcoal Canister was a US Requirement for Emmission...

 

[CJRamze]

I see, So will the removal of the canister increase emissions?
Not really a worry for me I'm running decatted, just incase people search in future! (Like noobs EVER search ANYTHING)

May it cause you to fail your Emission test in the UK?

 

[Murdered LCR]

Resistor is 10w 330 ohm mate same for n249 valve , will have a look today I think and see if it's easy enough

 

[Murdered LCR]

Ad you never get a light for the n249 that's the Sai that comes up

 

[Murdered LCR]

I have also read about running some vac line from one of the pipes down the wing also not to block some thing or the fuel will implode or some thing lol so need to make sure I do it right

 

[sambryant]

Dan i was looking into this a while back. On the early vag cars they just had a vacuum hose with a inline n80 valve with no carbon canister as standard. Could get one of these n80 and run it the same way. Just a thought.

 

[Murdered LCR]

Yer could do , I'm going to do some more searching on the net there must be a guide some where

 

[pstruck]

I'd be interested to see if there is an effective and safe method of doing this. I hate that ticking sound it makes!!!!

 

[The gaffer09]

Spooky, that was my next question. Is it on the left hand side of the engine bay? Black box type thing, heard it clicking yesterday a thought wtf lol

 

[Pyro]

Yup thats the one

 

[The gaffer09]

Great, good to know its not broken then lol

 

[Murdered LCR]

Just removed mine easy to do

 

[welchy]

Just removed mine easy to do

Fill us in how you removed it and what you needed then!

 

[BBoy82]

What does it actuallydo?
Where is it connected to?
If its an activated carbon filter for oil vapour removal, then it should get replaced at some point, as the carbon media will eventually become saturated surely?

 

[Phillc]

Dan, i removed mine a while back the light comes on nearly every day, really did my head in so i put it back, but only plugged in and with the vac hose to the mani, the fault i got was incorrect flow so nothing the resistor will stop its the ecu picking up on somrthing.

 

[Murdered LCR]

Phil my light is on constantly because of my de cat so I'm used to it , at some stage I plan to get a liquid gauge to clear codes etc as and when , it's really easy to remove tho , pics will be in my rr soon along with loads more