ventlation canester or wahtever....

[MMamdouh]

waht does the ventlation canester or wahtever it is called do? i am talking about the thingy that is beside the rear right wheel on a lanos and i am asking because i realized it is missing from my woo.

is it bad to remove it?

MMamdouh

[exist3nce]

That canister is for emissions most likely.... (took this from wikipedia)

Evaporative emissions control
Efforts at the reduction of evaporative emissions include the capturing of vented vapors from within the vehicle, and the reduction of refuelling emissions.

Capturing vented vapors
Within the vehicle, vapors from the fuel tank are channelled through canisters containing activated carbon instead of being vented to the atmosphere. These are known as carbon canisters. The vapors are adsorbed within the canister, which feeds into the inlet manifold of the engine. When the vehicle is running, the vapors desorb from the carbon, are drawn into the engine and burned.

Evaporative emissions from the vehicle are limited by law and tested as part of the new vehicle type approval by a so-called SHED-test. The current limit in the USA is 2 grams of HC per hour, which may amount to an evaporation of one liter (1/4 gallon) in a month.


Reducing refueling losses
All modern vehicles have tank filler necks that instead of just being a tube into the tank, as in earlier vehicles, now have a small-diameter hinged and spring-loaded door only large enough for the tip of the filler nozzle. This prevents vapor leakage when the filler cap is removed, and also prevents a catalytic converter-fitted vehicle being refueled with leaded fuel (since the leaded fuel nozzle is too large to fit).

This is accompanied by modifications to the filling station pumps. They are now equipped to suck the vapors back into the pump as they are displaced by fuel. Some have intakes around the head of the filler nozzle, while others have a rubber 'boot' that presses securely around the end of the filler neck to prevent vapors escaping.

Vehicles sold in North America started to be equipped with "onboard refueling vapor recovery" (ORVR) systems around 1997. These systems are designed to capture the vapors displaced by the incoming fuel and evaporated by high environmental temperatures in the vehicle's vapor canister rather than releasing them into the atmosphere. This system makes vapor recovery systems on filling station pumps redundant.

[kinkyllama]

Lol. I didn't even know something like that was in cars untill a couple weeks ago when my CEL went on about it

[MMamdouh]

so it is not that big deal... thats a relief

thank you guys

MMamdouh