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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 04:58 PM
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Does anyone know what this thing in the pictures is? It is on my 97 camaro SS, under the front passenger side frame rail, right in front of the sway bar mount and right under the battery/coolant reservoir. It appears to be vaccum related since the only thing running in or out is a small hollow line that goes into the main wiring harness. I posted this in the vehicle specific area, but had no luck. Thanks in advance if you can help me out.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 05:02 PM
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That's your vacuum canister. It goes to a check valve near the pcm and gets vacuum from the intake manifold near the vacuum port for the FPR. It has a line out of the check valve that goes into the passenger compartment for the HVAC system.
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exactly what 96LT1 said
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Thank you very much. Is it ok to splice this line with a vaccum line coupling? I was cleaning up some rust from a leaky battery and nicked it with the wire wheel brush.
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ya just stick a piece of vacuum line on there that fits tight and all will be well. i have had to do it to other cars a few times.
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Blinker Fluid Resivoir..






They got it, I'm just messin..
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Blinker Fluid Resivoir..






They got it, I'm just messin..
I thought it was a can of beep for the horn.
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Lol..I've never heard that one..
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Originally Posted by BigBlockBuck
I thought it was a can of beep for the horn.
That is by far the best think Ive heard next to turbo fluid, and headlight fluid. First time Ive heard that. XD
Kudos!
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It's the Factory Air Storage Reservoir.
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No. Wait. It's the Tire Inflation Maintainer Gas Storage Reservoir.
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Exhaust sampler.
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I broke the fitting on mine. Ordered some aluminum online, welded it up, powdercoated it! No more broken brittle plastic. This piece will last longer than the car. You can see it, it's the smaller black piece in the upper part of the photo.
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Very sweet qc97z, beats the hell out of the brittle factory plastic.
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I need to give a How to take a digital photo class for members here. The only thing in focus in that picture is the 1970's golf bag hanging on the wall in the background.
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...he tried his best.
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That's John F. Kennedy's golf bag.
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At least it's not Clintons golf bag, God knows what you would find in it or on it lol.
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Haha whatever Monica didnt swallow..
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You know it's not Obama's golf bag, he is using his way too much to be on the wall. Everytime I turn on the news he is off playing golf somewhere.
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