Charcoal Canister - Great Option!

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Reviving old thread. Any updates? I puked out damn near a quarter tank today. Maybe 1000 foot elevation change. Everything ran cool. (Which was my reason to test today). Super sketchy! Fuel boiling hard. Spitting fuel out of the filler. Had enough pressure behind the cap it flung it about 15 feet and the venting air had alot of pressure behind it for a while. Was worried about sparking off a rock or anything with all my kids in the rig. Will update with results soon
 
Mine worked fine for 10k+ miles going up and down from 6k to 10k feet altitude.

I just deleted it tho, and will see how that goes. Haven't gone to the mountains yet.
 
This scared me till I read up on it. And the gas smell was super intense and I had the wife and kids, felt like we were one random event from becoming a rolling bomb
 
I removed the charcoal canister. The hose coming from the firewall (gas tank) is now tucked into the fender. I capped off the hard tube coming from under the intake manifold. Save the molded hose from canister to manifold incase you ever go back to stock.
 
Mine has gone from vegas to Moab pulling trailer no problems. Wheeled hard in Moab and returned with trailer no problems. I have driven as daily driver and let sit no problems. I would do it again.

I wonder if those that had problems that it might be something else.
 
I completed this today with the GM canister (ACDelco 215-75 GM Original Equipment Vapor Canister). I removed the steel bracket where the canister is held, and removed the canister while off the truck. Then insert the GM unit (which is plastic, the Toyota is metal) and reinsert the whole thing into the truck. Here I ran into one SNAFU, there are 4 bolts holding bracket to body, 3 on the bottom, one on the fender. I was able to secure the fender and 2 of the bottom ones, it is a tight fit as the larger canister pushes the securing "ears" into the fuse box some. The last bolt I couldn't get int, as the larger diameter canister sort of blocks that location.
It seems pretty sturdy, not going anywhere. Did anyone else had this issue? With the GM unit being plastic bodied, I didn't want to bolt down too hard on the clamp. Hoses went in pretty easily with some dishwashing soap persuasion.
 
I just left the bracket on the fender. Found a long enough bolt to secure the canister using the upper bracket. Its holding fine. Left the lower bracket loose with no bolt in it. If you want you could somehow put along bolt in the lower but I havent seen a reason to.
 
what he said^^^^^^^
I put a longer bolt on the top one but also zip tied the bottom one just to be sure. its not going anywhere either way
 
Thanks guys. I won't be paranoid about it. I was surprised when I saw that little thing was supported by 4 bolts, almost like whoever designed it was expecting godzilla to try to pry it off. My experience working as a mechanical engineer in Japan told me they typically do things like that for a reason, I was expecting the canister to jettison out of the engine bay like a mortar round if not secured.....
 
The bracket was deigned to hold up on third world country roads, a single pot hole in the parking lot at the Neiman Marcus or Nordstorms is not exactly the conditions Toyoda designed the bracket for :grinpimp:.

If it bothers you, throw a zip tie over the top of the canister for good measure.
 
Just ordered one from Rock Auto for mine. i thought I'd ad some info which hasn't clearly appeared in this thread and about which I was ignorant until I started thinking about my gas smell problem. Gasoline is formulated with a variety of boiling temperatures. Winter gas boils at lower temperatures than summer gas. I am also assuming that gas from different refineries may have variation in boiling temperatures. I'm not sure if gas with ethanol generally has a lower boiling temperature. http://www.theoildrum.com/node/1776
 
No more whooshing when I remove the cap now, should have done this 3 years ago!
 
warezdog said:
No more whooshing when I remove the cap now, should have done this 3 years ago!
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Mine has done that for the three years since I've owned it. I thought it was normal. We were wheeling last weekend and stopped to check out a view and I heard this gurgling noise from the engine bay (figured it was just the radiator cap). Clearly it was coming from the charcoal canister.

Is there a current replacement one that is preferred or are they all about the same?

And for those in Cali, any troubles with smog checks with the new canisters? I know they pressurize the tank and check for leaks. I haven't had any problems so far.
 
surfpig said:
Mine has done that for the three years since I've owned it. I thought it was normal. We were wheeling last weekend and stopped to check out a view and I heard this gurgling noise from the engine bay (figured it was just the radiator cap). Clearly it was coming from the charcoal canister.

Is there a current replacement one that is preferred or are they all about the same?

And for those in Cali, any troubles with smog checks with the new canisters? I know they pressurize the tank and check for leaks. I haven't had any problems so far.
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Last week went from 800' to 7,500' & heard the canister gurgling, too. Is GM VS120 the one I need? Hoping this fixes a few prob's I've had!
 
LFD2037 said:
Last week went from 800' to 7,500' & heard the canister gurgling, too. Is GM VS120 the one I need? Hoping this fixes a few prob's I've had!
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No problems whatsoever here. Just sort of a

:hhmm:

I was actually sort of piqued by people's sense of a mileage increase...
 
surfpig said:
No problems whatsoever here. Just sort of a

:hmm:

I was actually sort of piqued by people's sense of a mileage increase...
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My prob's I hope it fixes, by what others have told me in another thread, is more power in elevated locations & better mpg's. No really noticable problems (ie. no CEL, MPG's are only slightly low).
 
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