Did it but made some changes. Turned the pipe around so as to place the filter higher up and away from the exhaust heat. Also realized the the heat is going to melt your tape adhesive sooner rather than later. Solution: the crimp clamps used on the pipe fittings. Get a third one (will do in the am since MB dealer is open till noon on Saturday). You will find that your breather filter when placed into the pipe flange, will be held snugly in place with one of those clamps. Problem solved. Also I used some of the red liquid gasket under the seal on the exhaust. Crimped it down moderately so as not to have as much metal to metal as possible, and will wait until tomorrow pm to crank it up. If I can't get the clamp will jury rig the filter until I can get one. Thanks again for doing the ground work on this one. Since the egr is closed during most of the driving, I don't think the computer is going to miss the charcol air much. It is absolutely assinine that the epa ever required the egr on the diesel cars, as it is a prescription for early death. Fortunately the older models plugged up without detection and that's what probably allowed the cars to avoid emphysema in their old age. I did not take off the intake and clean the other valves and hope that the continuous clean air will allow me a long time before I have to do so. Thanks again, Harvey

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