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Originally Posted by shearjs
Does anyone see any reason why I couldn't take some sheet metal and weld together a small box with a spot to hook a hose up, and fill it with activated carbon? Wouldn't this serve the same purpose as the large vapor canisters that you can buy?
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You could do that, but I'm not sure how long that would last before you would smell the fumes again. The activated carbon would eventually get saturated with the hydrocarbons and start to "leak" by. If you added another port on your home made canister and vented it to the engine though the purge system, it would remove the hydrocarbons from the activated carbon. It would also help very slightly with gas mileage...