Thanks guys, glad to be of help here on FTE.
and to answer your question regarding the cooler delete;
There is only one kit that I know that fits what you are looking for however it's very pricy, but it will support the 'y' in the factory up-pipe.
Maybe someone out there knows a cheaper way of supporting the pipe. Or for just over $200 you can get a solid pipe built like what 'firstcoastdiesel' offers.
Otherwise your best bet is to remove the intake to get to the existing egr cooler and mod the thing yourself.
http://images.dieselpowermag.com/tec...+valve_kit.jpg

Benchwrench,
Is this illustration a stock cooler or a modify one? And if it's the latter of the two were can I purchase one.
I went over to the firstcoastdiesel web site, but they only have an up-pipe and a complete intake manifold.
Or do they take your exsisting cooler and modify like the illustration?

GLM- The bottom three pieces in the picture are used to replace the cooler. The cooler is stock.

Thanks W_huisman,
do you know were I can purchase these parts?

The site that has them is Home

$595.00?!?!?!!!!!!!!
Damn I could roll my own for that much

I don't think that picture is the $595 Liberator kit.

The Liberator website says their $595 kit comes with a solid up-pipe without an EGR flange. The round flange on the end of the flat stock in the picture is for clamping to and capping the EGR connection to the up-pipe. Since the up-pipe in the Liberator kit doesn't have the egr flange, that part in the picture wouldn't be needed.

The only part that I'm interested in is the tube & support clamp that re-directs the coolant from the oil cooler back to the water pump. I plan on capping the oem up pipe and supporting it to prevent the flex part from cracking. $600 bucks for those three pieces is ridiculous; so anyone know were I can purchase the tube??

oops, double post

sorry, haha made another mistake. I'm trying to put my post in the tech forum and biffed it again.
I was wanting to add the pictures for future reference.

That is the kit they sent me a couple years ago, it had a set of intake gaskets with it.I nearly $h!+ when I opened it and saw what I had paid over 500 bucks for.

This picture shows just one way you can do that.
This is what's left of a cooler.
Some crackerhead thought it looked a crackpipe so the name stuck and became dubbed "the crackpipe mod" :-missingt
At anyrate, this mod will be alot cheaper than $600 and fits the bill to what you were asking. I like the idea too.
http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j2...etrick-1-1.jpg

:-drink

Will this find a way into the tech. folder?

Yes, it's already there in the tech folder under the first link entitled "EGR Disconnect Instructions" post #834
:-bigparty

that looks very ingenious. I take it that he cut open a cooler and used the inner tube to complete the water flow passage???

I don't know what a new EGR cooler sells for, but I'm going to start looking at either a used or new one on ebay to perform the crack pipe mod. Surely it can't be more than $600?

I've never pulled my EGR valve, but I now have frequent P0401 codes, so I'm thinking that the valve is sticking.
I have an 03 with 75k miles on a bone stock engine.