Morning all,

Just wanting to tidy the bay up a bit on my mk3 polo and dnt reali like the look of it and can i remove it?

How would i go about removing it?

Cheers

Ben

Yep you can,

just unscrew it from the top, remove all the pipes coming off it and block them all up except the one that smells like petrol which you just leave open

Yep you can,

just unscrew it from the top, remove all the pipes coming off it and block them all up except the one that smells like petrol which you just leave open

Is the one that smells like petrol the one coming off the T on the inlet manifold?

pretty sure you block the one from the inlet manifold, and leave open the thick clear one coming from the fuel tank

http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?...amp;hl=charcoal

Edited 7 February, 201115 yr by richoco

pretty sure you block the one from the inlet manifold, and leave open the thick clear one coming from the fuel tank

http://www.clubpolo.co.uk/forum/index.php?...amp;hl=charcoal

Thanks alot dude:)

I have removed mine on my 6n2 GTi and blocked the pipe from the inlet manifold and left open the clear one from the fuel tank. I just have the problem now with my engine management light coming on... anybody know how to trick the car into thinking the canister is still connected? Please help :)

We're a bad lot, us car enthusiats. G40 owners are the worst.

Crankcase vapours back into the engine? Nah, fuck that, vent to atmosphere.

Catalytic converter? Nah, sod that, it saps power.

Charcoal canister? Forget it, I'll vent mine to atmosphere.

Brilliant.

You have to wonder how much VW spent developing parts to make our cars as eco-friendly as possible, only for us to rip them all out!

Edited 28 March, 201115 yr by Alex

those canisters are only good for <5000 miles anyway the charcoal becomes saturated and it no longer does its job as well.

a similar system is used in dry cleaning machines to stop the vapour escaping to atmosphere but on those machines theres a service cycle that super heats the charcoal to dry it out and then sends the super heated air into a condenser to distil the vapour back into usable chemical.

We're a bad lot, us car enthusiats. G40 owners are the worst.

Crankcase vapours back into the engine? Nah, fuck that, vent to atmosphere.

Catalytic converter? Nah, sod that, it saps power.

Charcoal canister? Forget it, I'll vent mine to atmosphere.

Brilliant.

You have to wonder how much VW spent developing parts to make our cars as eco-friendly as possible, only for us to rip them all out!

my g40 makes up for it by spending more time in bits in my garage than it does driving

Why not just loop the pipes at source? If they loop around through the canister,simply remove the canister,shorten the pipes as far back as you can,then join them together.

Am i missing a reason this shouldn't be done?

Might do it to the mrs valver. Hey,I'm green - my '85 has a ceramic catalyst! And after a catch tank,its crankcase gases go into the carbs! :proud:

I've got a feeling that's how we did it on mine. Can't just nip out and check though

There's a thing on the bulkhead panel with a plug in it. A pipe goes from the throttle body to that,then from that to the canister. Could just put it on the throttle body,so its still operating with the plug in it.

Without the canister,i suppose it could fault,though.

maybe a noobish question but what does the charcol canister actually do?

^^ it allows the engine to swallow and use up the unburnt fuel vapour created from the fuel tank (by the Ecu opening the wee blue vacume valve infront of the ecu at the given point (when you come off the power iirc) and allows bunnys to run about in the field when you drive past so they dont need to wear a face mask or get asthma........ i.e its alot of rubbish and is best relocated to the bin.

Can remove the fuel line breather ( feed to the charcoal canister) way back at the tank at the gravity valve including the 3rd line under the floor (wee black thing in the rubber filler neck jonny bit) then just run a pipe down from the gravity valve and clip it to the edge off the tank with a trumpet end. (thats how VW do it) when its not fitted.

rest you just remove and plug at the source. you can get a charcoal canister blanking plate to cover the hole in the wing so it looks ment too, think they are about £3 from vw (its listed under a mk2 item).

Edited 31 March, 201115 yr by genesisGT

ahhh ok cheers for that shall get rid of mine this weekend then

^^ it allows the engine to swallow and use up the unburnt fuel vapour created from the fuel tank (by the Ecu opening the wee blue vacume valve infront of the ecu at the given point (when you come off the power iirc) and allows bunnys to run about in the field when you drive past so they dont need to wear a face mask or get asthma........ i.e its alot of rubbish and is best relocated to the bin.

Can remove the fuel line breather ( feed to the charcoal canister) way back at the tank at the gravity valve including the 3rd line under the floor (wee black thing in the rubber filler neck jonny bit) then just run a pipe down from the gravity valve and clip it to the edge off the tank with a trumpet end. (thats how VW do it) when its not fitted.

rest you just remove and plug at the source. you can get a charcoal canister blanking plate to cover the hole in the wing so it looks ment too, think they are about £3 from vw (its listed under a mk2 item).

Oh my god, is the carbon canister a piece of original equipment that you don't want?!?

Haha it just seems VW folk spend more time removing OEM parts from

The engine than fitting aftermarket =p haha!

Oh my god, is the carbon canister a piece of original equipment that you don't want?!?

Lol yeah rare but true, looks neater without them and I get to fit the banking plate :-D so win win in my books

Easy bit of weight saving too.

I've got a MK2F, My Charcoal Canister is located near the filling up area, Its been questioning weather i should remove it or not, Any ideas...