aha(fuel leak)

[Brett Dikeman]

Who says the archives aren't worth anything?

http://www.audifans.com/archives/1998/02/msg01822.html

"Yet another recall was for a problem with the fuel filler neck that 
allowed overfilling of fuel which would swamp out the charcoal 
canister near the engine compartment and cause a fire when the excess 
fuel came out the bottom of the canister and was ignited by the 
exhaust system..."

Ding ding, we have a winner; I think the lister who commented about 
thermal expansion was dead on the money(car was stone cold when 
gassed up, then after an errand, brought into a fairly warm garage).

Anyone know how to check both the top electrical valve, and the 
bottom drain?  I finally got the liner back enough to peek inside, 
everything's clean and dry as a bone up top, but there's a nice large 
drain at the bottom of the canister.

Lastly- Mark Chang pointed me to a site which mentions the canister 
itself in most cars has a limited lifetime.  How much are these 
little buggers?

What's normal operation for the valve(ie, under what specific 
conditions is the valve opened)?
B
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