So I'm running into an issue here, and it's starting to greatly confuse me now.
Visited the autozone site listed above and went and tested the valve. I'm getting air when it's hot, not when it's cold like I should. Problem is in the process of removing it both of the plastic tubes broke off from age. Now I looked into replacing the TVV from Advanced, and Autozone but Ican't find it anywhere. I called them and they can't find it in there system and have no idea what I'm talking about. Called to two toyota parts departments here in town and told them what I'm looking for. Neither had the slightest what I was talking about. Kept refering to it as the VSV or something else. I had to explain to them what it did and where it was located, and even then I'm not sure one of them ever found it. One said he did find it and quoted me 76.47 for the part! Well, the other issue i'm running into here is that when I look at my engine compared to some other's and what toyota and Autozone have on there pages, they don't match....
For example I have always noticed that on everyone elses gen 3 5S-FE the exhaust manifold has the large silver heat shild with the O2 sensor on top, then a second shield below that. Mine looks nothing like that at all. I have a heat shield with an O2 sensor, but other then that the lower heat shield is not the same. Also according to Autozone's site and Toyota's page I was looking at my car should have the large brick looking charcoal canister. But in fact mine has the single round one with two leads at the top and two at the bottom. So now i'm hoping to open this up to some others in the community here. Can anyone think of a reason, or where I should search to figure out why the hell is it when I fill up my gas tank it will start to purge liquid gas from the bottom of the canister? I'm not talking a small amount here either, I'm talking about it will purge a large amount, enough to leave a puddle on the ground and let it start running down the road. According to what I have read thus far the Cansiter has a valve at the top of it, and then a check valve on the side. From there a vacuum line runs to the TTV and then to the Throttle body. I previously had tested the two lines on top of the canister and found them to be working. I just tested the TTV and found it to be working. i will test the canister again tomorrow to see if I missed something. On top of that I can't find a check vavle for the canister. One hose runs from the tank to the canister, the other top hose to the TTV. One lower hose runs into the side of my car and the last hose just runs down to the subframe where it purges my gas to the road side.
VSV, TTV, BSV - Charcoal Canister
It worked fine until I fixed it! 
Linear Mode
