Charcoal canister

Can I just remove the charcoal canister? I'm working on the expansion tank and the extra room would be helpful. For years and years I have had several vapor lines in this area of the car that someone else had cut and left terminated and open to the atmosphere.

This car is old enough it no longer requires yearly inspections in the state where I live.


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Any advice as to how to proceed?

This car has lots of vapor lines terminated in no sane way. If rolled over I would expect fuel spillage, whether I remove this canister or not.

A roll over seems highly unlikely the way I drive the car. However, I cannot predict what the unwashed masses on phones in their large automobiles might cause, therefore would prefer if possible to avoid going out in a blaze of glory : - ).

 

Variety of reasons. At the moment the canister is in my way : - ). There must be 5-10 vapor hoses just cut off about the car and have been for the 13+ years I have owned it. Two of the hoses from this canister are terminated in no sensible way. One of them goes into some sort of valve (rusted) and attached to the rear of the engine compartment and the other end of the hose coming out of that valve is just cut off but heading towards the left side of the car.

It's a mystery of Rube Goldberg emissions devices. A mystery, in my opinion, better left unsolved.