Can anyone give me the details on disconnecting a 1983 240D EGR. I've read other posts but I'm a little confused, pics would be great! Thanks.

Josh

The simplest method is to find the valve, disconnect the vacuum hose and plug the hose.

That's it.

Now, if you wish to go further and eliminate some of the vacuum lines that go to the valve, I can't help you with that........some of them are transmission related so care must be exercised.

If you have a manual transmission, you might consider what I did. Find an older OM616 in a boneyard and swap out the intake manifold, eliminating all the linkages and that weird butterfly valve that can't be doing any good. Provided, you live where the smog nazis aren't.

Rick

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

Mine is a automatic tranny, I'm just not sure which vavles go to the RGR, some of them are on top of the valve cover right? Thanks for all the help.

You should be OK if you just plug the hose as Brian suggests. You can also remove that black cover on the switchover valve bank, trace the vacuum line from the EGR and plug on the other side of the valve (bypassing the valve). Many of those valves are leaking and causing transmission shifting problems.

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

Thanks for the input, is the switchover bank that mess of hoses that is in the black case on top of the valve cover?

That would be it.

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80 300SD (129k mi) 82 240D stick (193k mi)77 240D auto - stick to be (153k mi) 85 380SL (145k mi) 89 BMW 535i 82 Diesel Rabbit Pickup (374k mi) 91 Jetta IDI Diesel (155k mi) 81 VW Rabbit Convertible Diesel 70 Triumph Spitfire Mk III (63kmi)66 Triumph TR4a IRS (90k mi)67 Ford F-100 (??)

Havent looked, but is the procedure for my 240d the same or do i have no nader valve?