I've got an EGR fault, but while I wait for my blanking kit to arrive, could I remove the butterfly valve for now?

I can't think that it would do any harm, as its slow as hell, so I'm assuming that the valve has failed shut.

Anyone else tried this?

Cheers,

Andy

take off the plastic engine cover

At the top of the engine you will see the two erg feed pipes entering the intake manifold.

Unclip the mesh sleeves with a flat head screw driver, then you will be able to see how the pipes fix onto the manifold (my memory fails me)

once you've unfastened the pipes they will slide out (you will notice it turns into a square section from a round section once inside the manifold).

Get someone to turn the ignition on, start it. and then stop it... look for soot/smoke from the two pipe ends, and then listen for a flip/flap noise on shut down.... the pipe NOT making this sound is the pipe connected to the faulty egr.

Once you know which one has failed... you need to unbolt that pipe from the other end also, then you can lay it on a flat surface, and using a very delicate hammer SMACK IT FLAT ( the end "square section" bit only) You can crimp it over at the end for a "belt and braces" job.

Once flat, re-bolt it back on...

Job done, an invisible egr blank off without all the grief RRS gone
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