What is this cylinder? PICS ADDED

[Mikester]

u can remove it, car will work without it

But what does it do? lol. good to know i dont need it, as its broken, haha!

[DazVR6]

If its what i think it is now, its a charcoal canister. Apparently it sends wasted vapours back into the fuel tank.(i only know this because i ripped one off my mate novas when i built him a 1.6 turbo lump(vauxhall filth urghh)).

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What he said, ive also heard you can do with out it, but think hose must be capped off.

[nelds]

FFS Mikester......will you stop pranging your friggin dub !!

[Mikester]

FFS Mikester......will you stop pranging your friggin dub !!

It wasnt even moving, it was stopped, lol, some1 decided to hit it!!! lol

It will be on the road by the end of the week, until it gets the insurance funding for the full job. lol.

Going to bodge the bumper on, and get a new head lamp, and hammer the wing to get it out of the way. Propper essex job. lol

[Kenny_1.6]

carbon cannister neutralises the fuel vapour before it enters the throttle body... after 100K, it does practically nothing, so many people just by-pass it anyway. car will run fine without it, but only if you connect input pipe to wherever the output pipe would go