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What's this? It's in my front right wheel arch and has two tubes running from the top of it into the engine bay somewhere.

looks like a thingy to me

looks like a remote vacuam canister to me

sig wrote:looks like a remote vacuam canister to me

what he said

fuel vapoor filter, got something to do with emissions. petrol cruisers have them normaly left rear corner of engine bay. i thru them out as dont need anything like that when using lpgas

Ah cool. I didn't see anyway of opening it up to check it or anything but then I didn't actually take it off and have a proper look. Guess I'll just leave it where it is then!

Cheers.

mudlva wrote:fuel vapoor filter, got something to do with emissions. petrol cruisers have them normaly left rear corner of engine bay. i thru them out as dont need anything like that when using lpgas

My guess as well.

philux wrote:

sig wrote:looks like a remote vacuam canister to me

what he said

+1 definatly not emissions stuff.

Where do the plastic leads/pipes go/come from?

Good question. I tried to follow them but they disappear for a bit before they re-appear! I'm fairly sure one of them runs to some electrics and the other has a short blue cylinder plastic thing on it (that's probably some kind of small filter) before running to a thin metal pipe that runs along the edge of the big metal pipe connected to the turbo and then carries on to something underneath the throttle housing.

Make sense?!?!

its a vacuum canister you dont need it just put a joiner inbetween hoses and tuck up in engine bay .....thats what i have done in the 3 surfs ive had

Its the Vacuum bottle/reciever used to supply air(under vacuum obviously) to the sliding sleeve for engaging 4wd in front diff, part of std ADD system.

Haha so it'd cause problems if you removed it then huh?

no issues in any of my surfs apart from when the hose come apart.....no 4wd

taz01 wrote:no issues in any of my surfs apart from when the hose come apart.....no 4wd

what was the point in removing it? was it causing problems?

its a vacuum reservior.....it increases the amount of vacuum you have to make the ADD ingage easier.
Years ago when cars have vacumm window wipers you installed them to make them work at a more even pace other wise when you accelerated your vipers stopped.
Without the reservior you might find the ADD wont engage if you accellerating .

tyres ripped the inner guard out so was in the way catching mud so out it went..........

tallsam66 wrote:Years ago when cars have vacumm window wipers you installed them to make them work at a more even pace other wise when you accelerated your vipers stopped.

Yeah I had an old Falcon years ago with vacumm wipers and they always stopped when you were going up a hill and then they nearly beat themselves to death when you went down the other side