Engine: EJ25 DOHC from a 1998 Legacy GT

Does anyone know what this part is? It's attached to the underside of intake rail #3. It has an vacuum input coming from the top of the manifold in the center of the throttle body, and then an output down to the engine underneath the manifold. It's a black plastic sensor encased in a metal box and has one electrical connection (two wire) that is unplugged in this picture. Anyone know what it is? I broke the input by pulling on the vacuum line. Plastic was brittle.

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I had the same question on here recently (search!!! ;) ). It's the purge control valve for the evaporative emissions system (charcoal canister for fuel vapors vented from the tank).

Pat Olsen
'97 Legacy 2.5GT sedan

I would if I knew what it did :) Will the car run if I block off that line for a few days and leave it unplugged till I get a new one?

I think it should, you'll probably get some sort of emissions related CEL I would imagine.

It is specifically called the CPC Solenoid (Canister Purge Control).

Your car will be fine running itself. It will set a CEL/code once the ECU cannot run the EVAP Purge Control logic as you are missing values, which read in form of 0% to 100% according to load and throttle postion.

And as long you are not doing an emissions test before you get the part in :)

-paK +1

Thanks guys. Hopefully my remanufacture of the part will hold together with the liquid nails :D

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Ok so my remanufacture didn't hold as predicted. Anyone have a part number on this?