I saw this post on the UK site. http://www.mdocuk.co.uk/forums/viewtopi ... highlight= It is talking about removing and closing up the vacuum hose on the EGR valve and that this solved their smoking off the line problem...no blanking though. This was done by a Mitsubishi mechanic.
I have been meaning to clean my EGR valve to hopefully reduce some smoking that I'm getting but haven't got there yet. I thought I would do that first and then if that doesn't work look into something like blanking or maybe this vacuum hose thing.
What do people think about this?
-Mark
Vacuum Hose removal from the EGR valve
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DelicaMark
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Re: Vacuum Hose removal from the EGR valve
My vote is to clean it out and get it working properly, if not for a mechanical reason, then for environmental reasons. Less pollution can only be a good thing.
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Re: Vacuum Hose removal from the EGR valve
Just to completely beat the EGR valve horse to death here...if my EGR valve was gummed up and not working properly then would I expect to see a result of more black smoke? I guess if the valve is stuck open then I would see more black smoke and if it was stuck closed I would see less smoke. Which in my case I see more black smoke so then my EGR valve should be stuck open...right?