Carbon Canister 182 change aahhhh!

[MARTYN ARCTIC BLUE 182]

Ok, my tappet noise is getting louder and after some really useful help from forum users, i've decided to change my carbon canister as the bloody tappet sounding noise is getting louder and pissing me off by the minute.....been thinking its the hydraulic tappets playing up, so me changing the canister first to see if its that hopefully.
Advice please.... is the carbon canister easy to change? can I only get one from the dealership? do i need any specialised tooling? bugger I have no decent garages around here in MK that would help me, so do it myself if I can.......any help with this would be really cool.....
Martyn

 

[caister]

Its not the canistor that make the noise its the solinoid that connects to the top of it. Theres a large thread on how to rip it out somewhere as its not needed so save some money and just remove it!

 

[Chris_H]

unplug the connector issue solved

 

[MARTYN ARCTIC BLUE 182]

Thanks guys, any idea where this thread is, can't find it, would be useful, day off today, take the bloody thing off......

 

[pinky]

My carbon cannister ticked..I changed it myself (and Im a girl..lol) you just take the o/s wheel off take the arch liner out and you can reach the cannister from there.
It has 3 bolts holding it in undo them and it has 2 tubes going to it...they have clips on which you need to squeeze together and pop off...then you just reverse the process to replace it.
You might want to know though that when I changed my carbon cannister (which cost about £60) it did NOT stop the ticking. It only stopped when I changed the o2 sensor (before cat) which I though was totally unrelated.
I found out this was the problem after putting the car on a diagnostic machine.

 

[MARTYN ARCTIC BLUE 182]

Me thinks I will go for the canister first, try that then the sensor....thanks for the advice.....

 

[Tom@JMS]

interested thread going to keep an eye on your results, got a similar ticking sound coming from the drivers side arch area, definitely not the hydraulic lifters as its not coming from that area in the bay. Can any tech genius (fred where are you) explain what the carbon thing actually does/ why it would make such a noise?

 

[rory182]

what is the carbon canister connected to? If it's vacuum from engine then make sure you don't leave vacuum tubes loose (i.e. drawing air into the engine)

 

[msisleman]

Here's the thread. Note my post at the end for basics on how it works/what it does....

http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?t=239212&highlight=purge&page=3

Any clicking noise will be the purge solenoid, nothing to do with the canister itself, it doesn't have any moving parts.

rory182, good point indeed, if anyone is taking the canister off then block the vacuum pipe leading to the inlet manifold.

 

[pinky]

It just recycles engine emissions.

 

[mattjk]

just unplug it to see if that solves it, then go about removing it if it does.

 

[MARTYN ARCTIC BLUE 182]

Sounds a plan to me, the thread is well helpful
Off work with a bad back, so got to wait till it gets better, before I try it, F@@@ it hurts, cheers guys and Girls

 

[rory182]

It just recycles engine emissions.

US / California spec motorcycles all have these, they seem to be for higher temperature countries to prevent fuel evaporating.

 

[msisleman]

US / California spec motorcycles all have these, they seem to be for higher temperature countries to prevent fuel evaporating.

Not for engine emissions at all, its the evaporative emissions from the fuel tank ie. the fuel vapour.

US legislation is even stricter then EU and now requires ORVR (Onboard Refueling Vapour Recovery). Basically not only does the fuel vapour from the fuel tank need to be captured but also the vapour that comes off while refueling needs to be captured in the canister. You should see the size of the latest canisters for US!!!