Carbon canister

[Peperami]

Something to do with fuel vapours?

What does it do?

 

[Gaz_]

purges vapours into the inlet. Some guy removed his, all pipework etc

 

[Peperami]

Lol. So what would happen if you removed it?

 

[Gaz_]

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

 

[graham_172]

car runs fine and emissions are fine aswell.

 

[Peperami]

Cheers for the link mate.

Took it off a few months ago, just wondered what it did, lol.

Engine light is on though :dapprove: is yours Graham?

 

[Gaz_]

You need to reconnect the solenoid, then tie it out of the way, as per thread by the sounds of it?

 

[Peperami]

:S Lol oops.

And which bits the solenoid?

 

[Gaz_]

Its the bit that the wiring under the drivers headlight plugged into. Its attatched to the top of the cannistor iirc? Only a small thing. i presume thats what neeeds reconnecting as per link

 

[Peperami]

Ah, couldnt work it out in the link.

Yus, i have that wire ziptied to the drivers side engine mount. Will have a go at reconnecting the thingymajig, and hopefully all will be well... lol

 

[Peperami]

Cheers guys, found the bit.

Will reconnect it tomorrow and get the engine light reset.

 

[dannogtt]

mine aint not on an it's fine

 

[mini-valver]

Emission light should go out itself dude.

 

[Peperami]

Even without resetting the computer/ turning battery off for a bit?

Bugger, lol.

 

[mini-valver]

Yep. Mine has done twice! Llambda went first time, new one in and it went off and second time it came on was when 2 coils went and it was throwing loads of un-burnt fuel into the exhaust!

 

[Peperami]

Hmm, i do have a problem with either my coils or throttle body also, so maybe with teh thing in the engine light would go off when thats fixed.

What do faulty coils sound like? throttle seems to get stuck and burble like a scooby at times. Pretty annoying. It then unsticks itself after a bit. Does it sometimes more than others. TB was cleaned out about a month ago.

 

[mini-valver]

172's use a coilpack and 4 HT leads whereas the 1.4/6's use inidividual coils for each cylinder. When they go you lose all power and it sounds like a scooby thats fucked!
FBW throttle should'nt 'stick'. You your revs just stay at an RPM without touching the throttle? When it burbles does it drive the same or seem slow?