Charcoal Canister. 4age bluetop... How to install

[4ageCort]

Hi

New to forum and 4age... I have a 1962 cortina and previous owner was kid enough to install a 4age and t50 from a 1984(?) sprinter... Efi with a tvis thing (?)

I now very little about the 4age, and am quickly coming up to speed but need to rego the car and it is needing a charcoal canister to be installed

So where does it go and can I fit it myself. I'm reasonably mechanical so with a bit of help should under stand

[lexsmaz]

Charcoal canisters are normally located in the engine bay & fuel Vapours only are supplied to the canister from a hard line breather tube running from the petrol tank, your Cortina wont have the breather tube under the car though ..

I think the cortina's have a vent tube connected to the filler neck though & if that's the case you will need to run a T piece off the breather tube & run that up hill in the boot somewhere so no petrol can actually go down / up that line & then exit the hose under the car in a hard line form to up front basically anywhere in the engine bay that you can easily fit the canister, obviously not close to an exhaust though & you need to supply a purge line to the canister that will supply engine vacuum to the canister, but no vacuum at idle though, so you need to find a vacuum source at the throttle butterfly that has no vacuum at idle but starts to create vacuum as the revs rise, check with your engineer about the breather T piece in the boot first but I think it should be ok ..

You can get simple carbon canisters from the wreckers with just two outlets at the top consisting of a breather line from the tank & a purge vacuum line, some more complex canisters have multiple hoses don't get those ones

[4ageCort]

thanks, So i think the area on the RED CIRCLE is to the charcoal canister, and the yellow is for AC advance (ithink) but not sure why they are looped. the car doesnt have AC ... so If i attach the canister to RED and Cap off the YELLOW, should BE ok??


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[4ageCort]

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[lexsmaz]

Bit hard to tell from your pic, but it looks like the 2 pipes comes from the same Vacuum source point ?? easiest way is to just start up the car & check if either pipe has vacuum at idle ( which you don't want for the canister ) & then slowly bring the revs up & see which one then starts to get vacuum & if the both pipes seem the same just take your pic as to which one to use ..

I'm guessing the pipes are looped together as it was easier to loop them than find some individual blanking plugs ..

On a side note my first car was a GT MK1 Cortina so I have some fairly fond memories of the old corty's, you will have to post up some pics of it ..

Regards ..

Rob ..

[masterofsinanju]

Any point googling for images of a 4age in it's natural habitat? then all you need to worry about is plumbing up the fuel tank.