I want to get rid of the gas smell in my garage. How about this........ I have a 2"x10" stainless overflow tank I bought on Ebay a while back. Why not mount it under the car, connect the 1/4" vent line from the tank, fill it with activated charcoal from PetCo, and run the other 1/4" line out to wherever??? Why wouldn't this work? Joe
It will suck charcoal dust back into your gas tank. The tank not only breaths out it breaths in. But you could put an iline filter between the cannister and the tank I suppose and that may keep that from happening.
If you do this and it works let us all know! (And don't forget you'll need to switch to a sealed gas cap or else it'll still vent the fumes straight into your garage.) BTW, my gassy smell has been reduced dramatically since I swapped out my 1-inch aluminum carb spacer for a 1-inch composite spacer. Worth a try.
MG Midgets run a vapor cannister setup. Look at that and see what probably doesn't work as it is MG and all. It may give you some ideas though.
so is there any reason to be concerned about gasoiline fume "soaked" charcoal? I'm being smart here--I'm legitimately asking because i don't know. the charcoal odor eliminator seemed like a good idea until this crossed my mind.
Get a regular canister. A Chevy venture van or olds sillouhettr ,maybe others but I just saw that one. Are about 6"x6x2 and mount sideways. They are under the van right in front of the tank . You could fit that anywhere Your idea would probably cause you troubl
The factory evaporative emission control canisters 'store' the fumes while the vehicle is parked, then the system is purged with fresh air when the engine is started. Otherwise it just 'fills up' with vapors and becomes ineffective, if not explosive. Ray
Back to the drawing board! I did put some non-restrictive stuffing in the ends of the puke tank to keep in the charcoal and hooked it up for awhile.......still a gas smell out of the canister! I give up for now! this may sound kinda hokey, but I ran a piece of 1/4" clear tubing out a small hole at the corner of the garage door and around the corner. Then when the car is in the garage I slip the vent hose and tubing together....problem solved....Sort of! Let's hear some more ideas!
In theory the charcoal and canister sounds good but the problem is the charcoal doesn't last long enough. The charcoal gets saturated way to quickly and it's ability to absorb ends. I wanted to take care of the fuel smell as well (when parked in the garage) on my 32 and here is what I came up with. I purchase one of those small old antique brass fire extinguishers (9" long), gutted it and drilled a bunch of holes in the bottom (for venting). I drilled and tapped the nozzle to accept a threaded 1/4" barbed fuel fitting. I mounted the small extinguisher on the firewall, ran the 1/4" breather hose from the tank to a ball valve under the car then ran the hose from the ball valve to the fitting on the extinguisher. Now when I park my car indoors I just close the ball valve. The fire extinguisher looks right at home on the firewall and nobody knows it's my fuel vent. When your ready to drive just remember to open the valve.
I don't see it being a big deal to fit modern sealed system components to an older car. With a little creativity you could even handle the carb vents to the same system like they used to do in the 70s. Done right you might see a couple vac hoses at best.
Hey Modified, you now have 3 threads running on this same subject, it might be easier to follow if you kept it all in one. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8369903#post8369903 http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=753745&highlight=smelly
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