I had been thinking about blocking my EGR, and well, I was replacing my funky manifold gasket today, and accidently broke the pipe for the EGR a little bit. well, that sealed the deal. I just ditched the whole assembly all together, blocked the vacuum lines going to it, removed the remnants of my throttle linkage (already removed the butterfly). I brazed a piece of steel over the hole in the exhaust manifold, and cut a peice of aluminum sheet metal to block the intake side. put some JB weld between the plate and the manifold to make sure it sealed and bolted it on. turns out the EGR was either open a crack by default or was just stuck that way, so it had definitely been leaking some exhaust nto the intake. I never have to worry about smog checks out here in CA, and i'm gonna run 20% bioD 80% WVO when i get my act together, so i don't feel guilty about the emissions. I should have takeen pictures of it, but I didn't plan of having to do it, so i was a little rushed.

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83 240D four bagger stick diesel 276K