i recently took off my charcoal canister thinking it would be fine, well it wasnt,..... well first off i cranked up the car to leave, drove fine for about a min. or so then when i hit about 2500 rpms it started jerking so i turned it around and came back to the shop,.. i then thought it was the differiential or the tranny but i cranked it up again and put it in neutral,...reved it up a little and every time it hit the 2500 range to 5000 it would be really bad like it is out of time or something,and it was smokeing really bad... soo... i then realised that one of the vacum lines running from the charcoal canister was to keep the engine in the right timeing,...soo i proceed to put the charcoal canister back on,...so i do and i crank her up and she dies, try again and the same thing,,... i have to hold the gas a little to keep her at a steady rpm soo she wount die but any ways,... it still is doing the same thing,... and it is blowing smoke like a smokestack,..so know im trying to find out what i should do,..if not i can inch her to my friend who is a local mechanic, god i hope its nothing serious

i cant live with out her any longer

I removed the carbon canister on my 78 and didnt run into any problems like that. I dont really know what else to tell you other than check those vaccum hoses again. "If it aint' broke, dont fix it!" Good Luck.

Man mines doing the exact same thing!!!

I've changed cleaned and inspected almost everything.

Is yours puffing a ton of black smoke out the exhaust?

Fouling plugs?