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your spent charcoal canisters could be put to good use. I want to deconstruct charcoal canisters, develop a best practice for restoring their function, and reconstruct.
I restored mine on a 3FE '62, In that instance, I ported the canister from the low side and bottom, removed the gac, cleaned the vessel, put in an unmeasured volume of fresh media and plugged the ports. This was about 12 years ago, 250k miles, and it's not been an issue.
I'm rather certain that fouled media is a primary culprit, there's also likely wormholes (preferential capillary flow), tube way, baffle and dividing wall corrosion, and plain old crud that's in there that shouldn't be.
In other applications, gac becomes sorted or layered, stratified layers that get "cemented" and cease functioning, as well as who knows what.
The point is, I might have the right background and skill sets to arrive at practical rejuvenation, I wouldn't venture a guess as to the potential savings, but it would sure beat buying new oem or putting bastardized government motors devices in our engine bays.
So, I'm throwing this out there, if you have one, I'll pick up the freight, keep you apprised of developments, and you get dibs on the restored units, be a guini pig too!
Besides, this could be green, keeping green in our wallets!
I restored mine on a 3FE '62, In that instance, I ported the canister from the low side and bottom, removed the gac, cleaned the vessel, put in an unmeasured volume of fresh media and plugged the ports. This was about 12 years ago, 250k miles, and it's not been an issue.
I'm rather certain that fouled media is a primary culprit, there's also likely wormholes (preferential capillary flow), tube way, baffle and dividing wall corrosion, and plain old crud that's in there that shouldn't be.
In other applications, gac becomes sorted or layered, stratified layers that get "cemented" and cease functioning, as well as who knows what.
The point is, I might have the right background and skill sets to arrive at practical rejuvenation, I wouldn't venture a guess as to the potential savings, but it would sure beat buying new oem or putting bastardized government motors devices in our engine bays.
So, I'm throwing this out there, if you have one, I'll pick up the freight, keep you apprised of developments, and you get dibs on the restored units, be a guini pig too!
Besides, this could be green, keeping green in our wallets!
