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Old 08-25-2005, 05:01 PM
mpolli mpolli is offline
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OK.. I just took a look. It is simpler than I remembered. You don't have to remove the black cover (although that is quite simple anyway).

Basically, if you have your hand on the dipstick handle and then just move your hand 6 inches toward the back of the engine you will be touching the EGR valve. It is a circular gold colored thing. It has a small black hose going to the top of it. This is the control hose. It has a large hose on the side of it which goes over to the intake manifold I assume. It sits on a bracket that has a metal tube in the middle of it that goes to the exhaust manifold. I am guessing that would be the clogged tube but I am not positive. I am not sure what it would be clogged with since these engines burn no oil.

Hope that helps and if anyone knows I am wrong they will say so!!

Mike
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