It is a vacuum reservoir to keep the HVAC controls in operation when engine is not producing good vacuum such as under acceleration or climbing long grades. Newer S10's still have one but it is hidden inside the drivers front fender.
A vacuum canister can be purchased from an auto parts retailer for this purpose.
Engine vacuum can be used to operate all kinds of devices in your car, from vacuum modulators in the transmission to the devices that open and close the doors for your cabin heating and cooling. Vacuum lines are the tubes that deliver the engine vacuum to those devices.
when you remove the engine cover, you see small sphere closest to your alternator. Remove that sphere (vacuum reservoir) and you see outlet pipe from Main radiator. Remove the plastic elbow and you see the thermostat on your engine. Cheers!
The engine does not produce enough vacuum to be usable.
The engine is the vacuum pump. All the vacuum operated accessories are operated by the vacuum supplied from the engine.
A gasoline engine makes it's own vacuum. The diesel engine has a vacuum pump next to the power steering pump.A gasoline engine makes it's own vacuum. The diesel engine has a vacuum pump next to the power steering pump.
The engine does not produce enough vacuum to be usable
The canister stores gasoline vapors from the fuel tank so they can be ran into the engine and burned.
The vacuum pump on a Vanagon diesel engine serves to generate vacuum pressure, crucial for various functions such as powering the brake booster, controlling emissions systems, and operating accessories like the HVAC system's controls.
the purpose is to suck myy ballls
The engine itself creates Vacuum once it is running.
You must have a diesel. The vacuum pump is what gives you POWER BRAKES and on the newer engines it also makes the power steering work. Only a gas engine makes vacuum. A diesel engine does not make vacuum, so they install a vacuum pump.