{"id":203,"date":"2020-12-01T22:53:18","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T22:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.22\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/egr-valve\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:40:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:40:54","slug":"egr-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/?p=203","title":{"rendered":"EGR Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>EGR Valve Removal<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p>The truck was a mess of reburn and EGR hoses. Now I am all for saving the environment, but this is a 50 year old car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3duomKvdDQQTrCQZ4zFdYuYdFtoGVDj3GXld2UfuovxLyA6fdPkPvE_4G73WHQnOlJ1JFxtnk384XgYeW7yWQ_nw7EK7h9GIJXblzOMdgyZ8jyYGQmiRjtq3-QKE3LAdixUpY3M8JvSg-RmEdxL3CjK=w732-h975-no?authuser=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3duomKvdDQQTrCQZ4zFdYuYdFtoGVDj3GXld2UfuovxLyA6fdPkPvE_4G73WHQnOlJ1JFxtnk384XgYeW7yWQ_nw7EK7h9GIJXblzOMdgyZ8jyYGQmiRjtq3-QKE3LAdixUpY3M8JvSg-RmEdxL3CjK=w732-h975-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I remove the carb you can see the EGR&nbsp; port was rather burnt and clogged.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3fy_VIdQK0JCxfxOF_ctWqJA2omQXkpjSNQR-x78CT73g8e6XJMFe-y-B3F_xzoDcPTLrSpYwbr6YXV025Fs4YnDIipsGeNZhZf-dkiEvL5aXVvshaF0FVaENsl68zwCqZmoLqWZhQt-sFHKEmUBHcE=w1300-h976-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><br \/>\nhere you can see the carb plate, one with EGR and one without.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3f8DADbXCfzttwlWMbCcY1L3sqa4I4wqlkNDi6WjxBfBJbnr646iI-bN2fbR2fbj_2LpzM-ln14xTH26CvMhIcAAXtAyjJQboIWA0XmpTIvXog2peaMHcPYXx-Zb_mpAYrjuupLuJvK8RYvimf8WxBx=w1920-h755-no?authuser=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3f8DADbXCfzttwlWMbCcY1L3sqa4I4wqlkNDi6WjxBfBJbnr646iI-bN2fbR2fbj_2LpzM-ln14xTH26CvMhIcAAXtAyjJQboIWA0XmpTIvXog2peaMHcPYXx-Zb_mpAYrjuupLuJvK8RYvimf8WxBx=w1920-h755-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"157\"><br \/>\n<\/a>unfortunately the non EGR also had no hole to hook up the PCV which I wanted to keep<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3fvj1q9vy7gpwn3srPb9rR1XVZ0v_CA1G9lHb3yYWgQ-73CByqvVJNbhfvNyV8DRT49bwsdCq__7NEEn-BXoz0YE8CY1l0rPbpi9_H-EJvgNzhrXiklduGElwVZZyEU-fvpju6or-Q0zQe46_Dm08Sk=w1300-h976-no?authuser=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3fvj1q9vy7gpwn3srPb9rR1XVZ0v_CA1G9lHb3yYWgQ-73CByqvVJNbhfvNyV8DRT49bwsdCq__7NEEn-BXoz0YE8CY1l0rPbpi9_H-EJvgNzhrXiklduGElwVZZyEU-fvpju6or-Q0zQe46_Dm08Sk=w1300-h976-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nSo I cut a small plate of aluminium and bolted it where the EGR was<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3cXTn_zQyILt-uoLwyLfLOcFlLKJSTAn1GxVd5MgrcTxxB0J1Nl1f7dMYadIASZHLBbGV7F222d4Pd1b4FdCj_jo1kT7f-M8QUOYV9SRkXOrw2apDBsRyebISQnA1Q_NTphxPClcGa-AnhnZRTrVuRT=w732-h975-no?authuser=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3cXTn_zQyILt-uoLwyLfLOcFlLKJSTAn1GxVd5MgrcTxxB0J1Nl1f7dMYadIASZHLBbGV7F222d4Pd1b4FdCj_jo1kT7f-M8QUOYV9SRkXOrw2apDBsRyebISQnA1Q_NTphxPClcGa-AnhnZRTrVuRT=w732-h975-no?authuser=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Then put it between the carb spacer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3d4lmf7SKgzcxxUcVyXJLH1hi_dze3C5yvHETddGRLw6ox0YIb4u6Vb5gtBICTSK8tggKncqj6OzdcdOkNRci4UaVZAomquK8bBr7QGnFsC3nejYuLSweIEclasTOiCUkJTDgDEtD8KOX5oXNr6cAmy=w732-h975-no?authuser=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/pw\/ACtC-3d4lmf7SKgzcxxUcVyXJLH1hi_dze3C5yvHETddGRLw6ox0YIb4u6Vb5gtBICTSK8tggKncqj6OzdcdOkNRci4UaVZAomquK8bBr7QGnFsC3nejYuLSweIEclasTOiCUkJTDgDEtD8KOX5oXNr6cAmy=w732-h975-no?authuser=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\"><\/a><br \/>\nI dont think it looks too bad.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/5iEE6qVvEmpFiEvF8\">Click her for more pics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EGR Valve Removal The truck was a mess of reburn and EGR hoses. Now I am all for saving the environment, but this is a 50 year old car. When I remove the carb you can see the EGR&nbsp; port was rather burnt and clogged. here you can see the carb plate, one with EGR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maverick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smegnl.medina.oh.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}