First off I have a 2006 with 70 000 miles, bone stock, well maintained, I love the truck and want to keep it for a while, so I have been reading about this EGR delete and was wondering if I should have this done? I would NOT tackle this job myself and was wondering how much labor to do this and what the cost would be. Currently the truck is running perfect, I also priced out another extended warranty for 4 grand canadian from ford? Would this be worth it its 3 years 60 000kilometes. Thanks for any advice.....Jason

 

I actualy don't recomend doing a EGR delete anymore. There have been some recent discorveries that show that the cooling fan dosen't operate properly with the delete in place. Due to that, and I do now beleave that you can operate with a funtioning EGR system for years and years without ever having any problems. The other thing is to do the EGR delete on a 06 you would need a custom tuner to turn off the EGR system so that it won't set the cell. What I recomend now is leave it alone, and if you do have any problems down the road replace the cooler with a bullet proff diesel one. They make a great replacement one that has had virturly no failures. If you have a good set of gauges, minimum of ECT, and EOT (as far as the EGR Cooler is concernd anyways), you can catch the signs before anything every happens and get it fixed. I would recomend you get some sort of OBDII gauge if you plan to leave it stock. The edge CTS is a real nice one. You could go with analog gauges, but for a stock truck I really just recomend going with a OBD II gauge. You should also get a Fuel pressure gauge, as that can't be had through the OBD II port. I do beleave with the edge you can add the sender and see fuel pressure with it as well.

 

OK WTF...sorry! I put $1300 into the truck at the local dealer, saying the EGR was bad. Torn the engine apart, cleaned the carbon out and put it all back together! I didn't want to do that again so "I was" going to do the EGR delete kit and get a tuner.......now should I do it or not! I have a 2005!!! Someone shed some light on this subject!

Thanks

 

I don't recomend doing an egr delete. Instead I would install a bullet proff diesel egr cooler. They have very little to no failures.
When the dealer did the egr cooler did they replace the oil cooler also. It has been found that, for the most part, a pluged oil cooler are the root cause of egr cooler failures. This happens because when the oil cooler plugs it limits flow to the egr cooler, causing it to fail. I beleave there is a tsb out that states you should always change the oil cooler when you have a failed egr cooler.
You should, if you haven't already, get gauges to monitor EOT, and ECT. There should never be more than a 15 deg difference between the two, when at operating temp. EOT being the higher one. If you see more than a 15 deg difference, with EOT being the higher, then you have a pluged oil cooler. That should be taken care of imediatly.

 

"get gauges to monitor EOT, and ECT".Where do you buy these guages, and what do these stand for EOTand ECT?

 

EOT=engine oil temp, ECT= engine coolant temp. You can get them just about anywhere. The easiest way to monitor gauges is though the OBD II port. You can get something like the DashDaq, really nice. Or you can go get a Edge CTS. Either one of those would be my choise if I were going the OBD II route. If you do one of those I would also recomend getting the pyro kit with it, along with the fuel pressure prob and what ever else is need to display that.
The other route, witch is the one that I went, is to get individual analog gauges and install them on the A-pillar or like wise. I don't really recomend this way for a stock truck. Just mainly becuase it can get expensive, and for most people that plan to stay stock they don't want to do all the mods to the inside like that.
Get ahold to Clay at riffraffdiesel.com He can set you up with what you need.