360 charcoal canister

[jordanius maximus]

what is the charcoal canister, what does it do and can it be removed? thanx

[Dutch]

Welcome to the forum. The charcoal canister is an important and often overlooked component to the motor's general health. In a nutshell it recieves vapors from a variety of places and either recyles them or safely allows a minimum amount of emissions. The most important donator would be fuel vapors from the gas tank. You cannot safely remove the canister under any conditions except to do maintenance. The pressure relief valve is one of the most often overlooked replaceable parts to the engines health and should be inspected (read replaced) since its doubtful it was ever done by the PO. Not doing so won't stop you in your tracks but will cause a variety of bad symptoms. The canister is easily removed and serviced but make sure you mark which lines coming into it and replace them in the correct order.

Good luck
Dutch

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360 Bored and Smoked
Edlebrock Carb, Cam, Covers and Manifold (They have a line item on my pay-stub).
K&N, MSD, Taylor, American Racing,
Goodrich, ConFerr, blah, blah, blah...Way to many stickers (for my wifes taste)

[Mud Thrasher]

The canister is part of your emission controls. It stores fuel vapors and sends them to be burned. I don't think it would be a good idea to disable it because it would mess up your system and cause it to run poorly. Hope this helps.

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'78 Chief 360/quadra-trac
D-44 f&r/3.55 r&p/31x10.5x15 G/Year Mt's
dual exhaust
Mallory Unilite Dist.
Edelbrock 4bbl 1405 carb
lined gas tank
free rust/new body soon

[Stuka]

If you have the OEM carb that your rig came with you need to have it hooked up. If you have a fter market carb, such as the Edelbrock 1406 carb, it cannot make use of the charcoal canister.

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1975 Cherokee
360 w/ Edelbrock Performer Intake and Carb
T18a
Spicer 20 T-Case
Dana44 w/3.54 Gears
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[Dutch]

Stuka's right on the money with the Edlebrock set-up. Just remember that doesn't give you a license to pull out the canister. Just leave the purge valve nozzle on top unconnected. It still needs to be there for fuel vapor/trickle.

Dutch

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360 Bored and Smoked
Edlebrock Carb, Cam, Covers and Manifold (They have a line item on my pay-stub).
K&N, MSD, Taylor, American Racing,
Goodrich, ConFerr, blah, blah, blah...Way to many stickers (for my wifes taste)