EGR removal

[john656]

Doing a few jobs on the disco this weekend, one of which is the head gasket and seeing as its apart i thought it would be rude to not remove/blank the egr off. Is it best to remove the little valve completely or just block it off with some tin either side?
Any heres one i did earlier pictures?
300 tdi by the way.
Ta

John

[BigA]

I believe its best to remove it/blank the actual EGR valve. If its stuck open, even slightly, it will let gasses out still, even if they are not being recirculated back to the turbo.

[MudRat]

you can remove it, its easier to put in a bit of tin between the block and the valve, bit of sealant, 5 min job.

[mark-d]

for about £15 you can buy a kit and do it properly, comes with a new gasket a plate and new hose from your intercooler to your inlet manifold.

its worth cleaning the inlet manifold while its off and the intercooler as they will be full of crap

[DISCO-CHRIS]

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[lurch_917]

its better to blank it of properly as a freind done a half assed job on his went for a play and actualy drownd his engine through the valve

[mark-d]

yer better changing the intercooler - minifold hose to a 200tdi one

[mark-d]

here ya go this is mine and id say its the best was to do it.

[Range Rover Blues]

Yes I'd put money on the pleneum being full of oily greasy black sludge.  The combination of oil from the turbo and the engine breather coupled with the soot form EGR makes a right mess.

TBH I'd also sugest rerouting the engine breather to a catch tank too rather than the turbo inlet, I then fed the breather from the tank into the airbox to burn off any smelly fumes from the oil breather.  I guess a really good catch tank could be plumbed back into the turbo elbow but mine still passes some oil droplets.

[mark-d]

it would av to be water tight tho