What's this pipe for?
Last but-one fill up at the local CPC station was followed by a very strong (headache inducing) and persistent smell of petrol. Couldn't see a leak, and the subsequent top-up at the same place to establish post-carb-reconstruction consumption didn't repeat the smell, so I assume the kack-handed yoof just spilled a lot of petrol.
Self-service places are fairly rare locally, but I may have to start seeking them out.
Anyway, while looking for leaks, I noticed this open pipe.
It has apparently been connected to something in the past, because the end is stretched a bit, as by an insert, but I can't see anything it could have plugged onto.
Best guess is it was a connection to an activated charcoal vapour trap cannister, though theres no sign of one, or mountings for one, now.
The other part of this pipe is the middle of these three loops inside the car.
By coincidence, at the end of last semester, for no particular reason I took what might be a vapour trap cannister from the (empty) engine compartment of an abandoned Corolla on campus (wish now I'd taken its wheels and tyres before they towed it).
I suppose IF that's what it is I could hook it up to this mystery pipe somehow, though its got 3 connections. Or I could just put a filter or a golf tee/bolt in the mystery pipe and forget it. Its probably been open for a decade or so.
denso 77740-12520 138600-2650
Google seems to confirm its a vapour cannister, though from a quick look I didn't find that particular one.
Last but-one fill up at the local CPC station was followed by a very strong (headache inducing) and persistent smell of petrol. Couldn't see a leak, and the subsequent top-up at the same place to establish post-carb-reconstruction consumption didn't repeat the smell, so I assume the kack-handed yoof just spilled a lot of petrol.
Self-service places are fairly rare locally, but I may have to start seeking them out.
Anyway, while looking for leaks, I noticed this open pipe.
It has apparently been connected to something in the past, because the end is stretched a bit, as by an insert, but I can't see anything it could have plugged onto.
Best guess is it was a connection to an activated charcoal vapour trap cannister, though theres no sign of one, or mountings for one, now.
The other part of this pipe is the middle of these three loops inside the car.
By coincidence, at the end of last semester, for no particular reason I took what might be a vapour trap cannister from the (empty) engine compartment of an abandoned Corolla on campus (wish now I'd taken its wheels and tyres before they towed it).
I suppose IF that's what it is I could hook it up to this mystery pipe somehow, though its got 3 connections. Or I could just put a filter or a golf tee/bolt in the mystery pipe and forget it. Its probably been open for a decade or so.
denso 77740-12520 138600-2650
Google seems to confirm its a vapour cannister, though from a quick look I didn't find that particular one.
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