Fuel tube
What is the fuel tube in the cargo area in a 1972 blazer called and what is the purpose? Thanks
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You mean the pipe next to the filler neck?
It's a fuel vapor vent stand. 3 vent lines hook to the bottom that aid in tank filling and reduced emissions. One line will run all the way to the engine bay to the charcoal vapor canister that gets sucked up and burned off by the carb. It's the only emissions piece on your blazer worth keeping. |
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I dont know why you'd want to. You have the main vent line that runs down with the fuel neck...
But you also have two vent lines that run from the gas tank to the vapor tube, one on each side of the gas tank. This is so that when the fuel sloshes back and forth you always have venting on one side or the other. The third line on the vapor tube, the one in the middle, runs to the charcoal canister under the hood. At the canister you have three lines. They are all marked on the canister. One leads back to the vapor tube. Another line from the canister is spliced into the PCV line to the carburetor. The last line is a vacuum line that should be hooked up to ported vacuum on the carb. When you run the engine off idle, the ported vacuum opens a valve on the canister and the engine consumes the gas tank vapors via the PCV line. At idle, the vapors vent out through the canister. Here's a pic from the factory assembly manual of the gas tank and vapor tube lines: Attachment 1755114 This is basically a closed system and if you remove the lines as you'll get a gas smell, higher evaporation rates, and maybe a fuel leak depending on how you plug the holes. |
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my tank only has the one up the fill tube and one on top (some sort of aftermarket 36 gallon thing). If I connect the top one to this tube, with no other lines (no charcoal canister or anything), will the tank fill better and not gurgle out the fill neck so often?
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Mr Freeze - I think i need pics to understand what setup you have.
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All emissions controls are gone. Tank has filler neck, pickup tube, and 2 other fittings. One of those is the vent to the filler neck. The other used to be a return line from the fuel injection. I now have a carb, so it is just plugged. The vent tube (purpose of this thread) is not connected to anything. Should i connect the currently plugged fitting to the vent tube?
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Thanks for the info guys.
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