Dawes fitment check please...

[mudski]

Hey mudski, my GU has that black canister as well, i want to install my needle valve but i am confused on how to do this because of the canister. Can you please help me out? and the needle valve that im using will be in the engine bay not the cabin.

Cheers chris

Hey Chris that black canister is a vacuum canister, you can bypass it if you want as many of them snap the ends off where the vac hose goes on. I have just left mine on.
This is the diagram you need to go by if installing the needle valve.


So basically you will only have one line coming from the air resonator, next to the air filter housing, going into one side of the needle valve and the other side tee's into the vacuum side of the Dawes. Then you need to block off all three vac ports on the solenoid.
Hope this helps.

Edit : I bought my needle valve from Dependable distributors in Adelaide too. Mine leaks though, with the radio off and the car at idle you can hear a hissing sound coming from it. All the fittings are tight, the leak is coming from the centre section on the valve. I pressure tested it in water and does not leak, but under vacuum, it leaks. So I'm am wondering if this valve is designed for vacuum. My guess that it's not. Plus, I can wind my valve all the way in or out and it make sweet f.a difference. Because of the leak I believe. Jut one of the many things on my list to get around fixing.