For those of you who have done the EGR delete on your OM602 and have done oil analysis, how did the EGR delete affect your soot production?

On my 92 300D, when it had about 200k miles on it, I was seeing soot levels of 1% at 7,000 miles (mixed city and highway). Curious what it will be now....any guesses?

The acceptable soot level question has been beaten to death....not interested in reviving that discussion (though the topic interests me).

I use M1 5w40 and have been playing it pretty safe with drain intervals every 5-6k miles....will probably extend a bit.

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14 E250 Bluetec 4Matic "Sinclair", Palladium Silver on Black, 158k miles
06 E320 CDI "Rutherford", Black on Tan, 177k mi, Stage 1 tune, tuned TCU
91 300D "Otis", Smoke Silver on Tan, 144k mi, wastegate conversion, ALDA delete

19 Honda CR-V EX 72k mi
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