Evap fuel vapor line question

[87RangerXLTct]

While replacing brake lines in my 93 ranger project I noticed a rotted line that goes to the charcoal canister/gas tank.
Will this cause any drivability issues or affect gas mileage significantly? Trying to determine how urgently I should address this?
From what I can see the line is rubber or nylon the whole run except for this 2’ section where it enters the engine compartment, doesn’t look like too bad a job to replace

 

[97RangerXLT]

well... the elbow that connects to the canister itself on my 97 rotted away 15 years ago. since it had a different diameter on each end it was not a cut a length of fuel line and replace it easy, I had to think of getting a plastic elbow with two different sizes, two different sizes of fuel line and putting that in and hey while I am at it maybe I should replace all of that line and the purge valve just before the elbow that does not work and probably hasn't worked for the entire time I have owned the truck but the truck was running fine but had a check engine light on for it and then ADHD kicked in and well look at the time, its 15 years later...

Granted i maybe drive my ranger 3 or 4 thousand miles a year but I had no driveability issues so it faded from my focus...

Great, now another little project to work on...

AJ

 

[87RangerXLTct]

I hear ya, everytime I fix something I find something else that’s messed up lol