Definitely tighten all the bolts before driving. I had a shop replace my EGR the first time it went, and they broke one of the bolt threads off in the block🤦🏻♂️ I went through 6 of those stainless steel flex pipes before I realised why it was failing. With only three bolts holding my EGR (which were loose too) the movement kept causing that pipe to fail. When it fails it starts off cracking and you can smell exhaust fumes in the cabin, until it finally cracks all the way around the pipe and you loose turbo boost, plus it sounds like an engine with the exhaust removed! The best thing to clean the core out on the EGR is to soak it in a bucket of water with caustic soda in it. Leave it overnight and it will come out clean. Cheers
The bottom one (the Torx 30).. mine wasn’t too tight luckily. It came off ok with a socket Torx with the 10mm extension. It was the one a bit higher up for me near the pipes that rounded off and was a real pain.
@@DossingAroundInBoats mine looks like strange angle and torx30 is not taking it - 2h down the line. will have some break before attacking again ...haha. thanks for info
@@DossingAroundInBoats I got the right one but day no 2 with 30torx slimmer still no luck, if feels that the flex pipe is on its way to hold it properly and I might need to do with grider there just not sure how I'm going to fit one. Did you managed to do it by hand or used impact drill?
Can you get your phone down there with the flash on a record it for 20 seconds.. that’s what I done to see what was going on. From that I discovered my nut was rounded off. I got my impact driver down there just about but that was a bit too powerful for the nut extraction kit and basically rounded the nut even more. From there I got a cheap dremel copy, with a flexible extension that allowed me to grind it off. I kept using my phone to record the progress. A grinding stone in the shape of the end of a pen worked well.
This is most honest video ive ever watched on car maintenance
Cut hands , rounded nuts , but the job is done
Haha, thanks for your comment. Nothing is ever easy. I always come away with a battle scar! Well chuffed I managed to get it fixed though.
@@DossingAroundInBoats feels good
Egrs and dpfs are evil
Definitely tighten all the bolts before driving. I had a shop replace my EGR the first time it went, and they broke one of the bolt threads off in the block🤦🏻♂️ I went through 6 of those stainless steel flex pipes before I realised why it was failing. With only three bolts holding my EGR (which were loose too) the movement kept causing that pipe to fail. When it fails it starts off cracking and you can smell exhaust fumes in the cabin, until it finally cracks all the way around the pipe and you loose turbo boost, plus it sounds like an engine with the exhaust removed!
The best thing to clean the core out on the EGR is to soak it in a bucket of water with caustic soda in it. Leave it overnight and it will come out clean. Cheers
How lose was the flap after you had finished cleaning it? Were you able to easily move the actuator by hand?
Would highly recommend getting a new one at this point. For the sake of £250.. piece of mind etc.. lol
how did you managed to get that last bolt out - the lower one- I lose it already. thx
The bottom one (the Torx 30).. mine wasn’t too tight luckily. It came off ok with a socket Torx with the 10mm extension. It was the one a bit higher up for me near the pipes that rounded off and was a real pain.
@@DossingAroundInBoats mine looks like strange angle and torx30 is not taking it - 2h down the line. will have some break before attacking again ...haha. thanks for info
There’s a couple of spline 10mm that attach the exhaust pipe so don’t confuse those.
@@DossingAroundInBoats I got the right one but day no 2 with 30torx slimmer still no luck, if feels that the flex pipe is on its way to hold it properly and I might need to do with grider there just not sure how I'm going to fit one. Did you managed to do it by hand or used impact drill?
Can you get your phone down there with the flash on a record it for 20 seconds.. that’s what I done to see what was going on. From that I discovered my nut was rounded off. I got my impact driver down there just about but that was a bit too powerful for the nut extraction kit and basically rounded the nut even more.
From there I got a cheap dremel copy, with a flexible extension that allowed me to grind it off. I kept using my phone to record the progress. A grinding stone in the shape of the end of a pen worked well.