broken vaccum hose

[V6LE_CAMRY]

I was loking at the engine in the camry and found a broken hose that goes from the valve cover to a tank in the front of the engine. the tank uses two hoses and one of them is just broken loose. I looked at teh haynes manual and it says that it's called the Vaccum Tank. What does this do? doe sit affect how the engine works or soemthing?

[Gary_602Z]

I will take a shot at this! If it is a vacum resovoir the only thing I can think of would be to allow the brake booster to work for a liitle bit if the engine quit running thereby losing vacum to the brake booster. Or to allow vacum to the booster under high rpm/low vacum conditions.
Just quessing!

Gary

[foompla]

i think your talking about the charcoal canister. im suprised you havent gotten an evap code yet

[drunken_panda]

Isn't the charcoal canister near the gas tank?

[chronoti]

not on the gen 3, if it's the vaccume tank your ACIS system doesnt wount workand your causing a vaccume leak, the ACIS doesnt trip any codes because well it's not needed for anything but performace @ 75% throtal and under 3k rpm. but still your causing a VERY small vaccume leak and should plug that hose back in or buy some new hose of ebay.

[V6LE_CAMRY]

i think i'll try to get a new hose. do they sell them at the local auto parts store like kragen or auto zone?

[V6LE_CAMRY]

Oh and it's not the evaporative chlorical canister because that one is located toward the back of the transmission, so it's not the one im talking about.

[Dave's]

One of my cars had an aftermarket cruise which needed a vacuum canister/tank to maintain control going up hills. There's one on my '91 Toyota truck too.

[V6LE_CAMRY]

So can this be the cause that my cruise control does not work? The light flashes when i turn it on.