Charcoal Canister help

[minoclan]

I have a 1970 with a 1985 3.2. I have been having an issue with a fuel smell that I think that I have tracked down. Every time that I fill the tank and corner hard, fuel pours out of overflow tube on to the ground. I got black flagged at my last event.

About two years ago I had the front pans replaced and a lot of the wiring simplified. I know that the body shop wanted to remove the charcoal canister from the system. Apparently in putting everything back together they got it wrong. The canister fills up with gas and then dumps to the overflow tube. I have gone over the schematics here on Pelican BUT it shows that canister recycling the fumes to the carbs (that I don't have).

Does anyone have an early car conversion to a 3.2 that retained the evaporation system? Can you share some pictures of the trunk and canister mount? Mine is ziptied to the fuel filler neck.

[Targa Me]

Your canister should be mounted underneath the right rear fender well. The canister has 2 openings. one is a vent to the outside air and the other one is an inlet coming from the rubber boot of the (i'm gonna call it the...) throttle body. the hose coming from the T.B. goes through the fender near the oil tank (oil tank on a 1985).

[ossiblue]

The location of the charcoal canister varied from the early cars (in front by the fuse block) to later cars (in the rear, engine compartment or right rear fender.) However, your problem does not stem from the location of the canister. From your description, you appear to be missing the collection tank which is located behind the left headlight bucket. This is where liquid gas (over flow) and vapors that condense are collected, allowed to vaporize, and are drawn into the charcoal canister. No liquid gasoline should be able to enter the canister directly. Take another look at the schematics, and identify any components that are missing on your car. It sounds like the body shop connected the overflow hose to a hose that ended in the canister and the canister is piped to the outside--both incorrect.

[E Sully]

You should have item 3 in your left front fender behind the headl9ight bucket. The small tube out of the top of that thank should go to the charcoal cannister.
The charcoal cannister is next to the battery in the third picture. You should have 2 lines, 17 and 18 in the diagram, running to the engine compartment. One line goes to a nipple on the back of the air intake box, and the other should go to the engine shroud. The 3.2 did not use this, so I drilled a small hole in the shroud on my '86 3.2 to fit a generic PCV valve and grommet to connect the hose to. If you have the original 1970 engine you could take the nipple off the air shroud. This provides air to vent the charcoal cannister to the air box.

[minoclan]

You guys are awesome, thanks