return line to gas tank

Shannen Durphey shannen at mcn.net
Tue Oct 20 19:43:03 GMT 1998


mrvette wrote:
> 
> Nah, I can attest with my'72 vette that the reutren line on a full tank of gas
> tends to heat up the gas, and expand the tank, forcing a leak conditon....when
> the tank is somewhat enptied,  the fumes disappear....
> believe me I have monitored this condition VERY carefully over the 3 years this
> mod with DPFI has been in effect, and tried all sorts of thigs....it's not
> really a leak, just escaping fumes...a real pain in the ass....you know the cold
> gas goes through the warming of the FI rails on the engine, and goes back heated
> to the tank,  gradually it all heats up, and forces gasses to escape,,.....the
> old type of evap canister, allthough operationg correctly is not up to the job,
> hence the late model FI cars have a bunch of capillary tubes in the system...
> a real weird piece of engineering, of which I have no knowledge....
> anyone out there who knows of these things....?

Actually, many EFI cars have simplified the vapor canister.  One line
from tank vent, one line to purge valve(ecm controlled).
Shannen



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