What is this?

francophile1947 · Post by **francophile1947** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:05 pm

Hi all
I appear to have a leak, of some sooty stuff, from the curved metal pipe in the photo, where it joins the manifold.
Is this pipe part of the EGR system?
Sorry for poor quality picture - I had to use my webcam cos' my card reader has bust!

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 3:07 pm

Yep, from memory that's part of the EGR system

francophile1947 · Post by **francophile1947** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:00 pm

Thanks Ian

I feel a "blanking off" coming up.

Maxter · Post by **Maxter** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:38 pm

If you do, please let us know how you do it.

Cheers

M

Bumbly1 · Post by **Bumbly1** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:11 pm

Do a search, Dandywarhol has posted this with photos, easy peasy and better performance!

francophile1947 · Post by **francophile1947** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 6:30 pm

Hi Maxter
I took the "technical" route as a temporary measure.
Undid the 2 bolts, plus one on the clip half way along the pipe, lifted the pipe a little and put a 2p piece over the hole. Put it all back together and tried it. It actually seems to run better, but I'll know more when I've given it a longer run. If no problems I'll make a proper blanking plate.

dandywarhol · Post by **dandywarhol** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:49 pm

The pics were Veg Ians Tpm.................

Veg_Ian · Post by **Veg_Ian** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:19 am

I took the "technical" route as a temporary measure.

Ideally all that pipework, diaphragm and control stuff could come out if you could permanently seal the entries for the inlet and outlet manifolds. It would make for working on the engine a lot easier. It's just having the inclination to get stuck in .....

neil/di · Post by **neil/di** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 3:51 pm

John look forward to the out come of your tests please keep us posted
Thanks
Neil

francophile1947 · Post by **francophile1947** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:11 pm

Will do Neil