I recently had the pleasure of having to replace a blown out cold-side charge air cooler pipe. During this process it became apparent that their was a fair amount of accumulated soot. The EGR and throttle valve both had what looked like enough soot to cause it not to breath freely. Without actually inspecting the intercooler, it seems likely to me that the intercooler would be full of soot as well..? Does that seem like a reasonable assumption? Is there an easy way to find out for sure without taking the intercooler off the truck? Any remedies or preventative maintenance that can be done to remove the likelihood of soot and prevent the chance of soot buildup in the future?

Thanks in advance for any assistance/ideas.

 

Not sure, I wouldn't think so. The EGR cooler on mine was coaked up pretty good when I deleted mine @ 5,800 miles. Was there alot of crud in the blown pipe?

 

I actually didn't do the work myself the attached image is a picture of the throttle valve. You can see there was quite a build up on the inlet side. I can only assume what it might have been like prior to the throttle valve as I understand it the folks replacing the pipe didn't dig in any further down the line to inspect.

 

As far as I know exhaust gas goes back into the system after the intercooler. Only clean air should be going to the intercooler. Pretty sure it goes in right at or after the throttle body. I thought I had a diagram but I can't find it....

 

 

That's what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure. Thanks Darren!

 

That Darren guy is pretty useful.

 

No way that can be for our trucks - the turbo shaft is too long.

Seriously though that is an interesting diagram. Makes you realize how much they have shoehorned in under the hood.

Ps. I like your avatar.

 

Pssst don't tell him that though

 

Sounds like I shouldn't worry about the intercooler then. Thanks very much for the responses!

 

I would suggest getting the Cold side intercooler pipe upgrade at some point, get rid of the plastic OEM part, Misimoto makes one and H&S makes one.

 

 

Sorry first post of a pic. Was performing egr delete on my '11 F-350 and twisted off one the egr small pipe bolts connected to exhaust manifold. Removed plenum and found soot buildup above. I did remove the intake cast spider and intercooler and washed both out with hot water and soap. Did CCV delete as well.

 

The ccv re route will fix that issue what your seeing is an accumulation of oil in the intake system

 

Looking at the CCV reroute, how difficult of an install is it? Like everything else, access issues? (EGR delete was a bitch!)