Yeah, but she doesn't look as sexy! Is there anything any greater then a cute blond driving a big truck?

 

Yeah, the cute blond that lets me drive the truck you paid for.....

 

Naked... .....

 

I don't like em naked.....it takes all the guess work out of it.... I need something for my imagination to ponder.

 

I finally pulled and cleaned my EGR valve yesterday. My photos did not turn out so well, but, I can say that T_B photos at the start of this are indicative of what mine looked like. Tough bugger to get out. For those who care:

2003 Excursion 4x4 34,550 miles, no additives or tuners. Mainly a weekend driver (I take the train to work). I make sure on weekends to give it a good hour run - city & highway. Most miles are highway making trips back to Michigan all summer with the occasional snowmobile trip in the winter. I idle it at start up generally 3-5 mins and depending on the drive, cool down idle can be 3-5 or 10 (no added gauges to know how long to cool down).

I pulled this because my mileage went down this last year and I am hopeful cleaning it will bring it back. I start a new job this next week and will be putting 140 miles on it every day (all highway).

 

One reason you may be getting your EGR sooted up is due to your idle time. 3-5 mins. in the morning and up to 10 after a drive is probably excessive, especially the cool down time. Generally if you are not towing and just cruising on the highway, 1-2 mins. is all you need...probably not even that long.

 

admorris,
Thanks for the info.
I'll shorten the cool down and start up. W/o gauges I was not sure how long it would take. Unfortunately my milage has not improved since cleaning the EGR..

 

My '05 had the EGR replaced by Ford about every 5,000 miles or so, with that and a boatload of other problems, an arbitration hearing with the BBB, and a lot of bitching, Ford replaced it at about 18,000 miles with an '06. 6,700 miles with this one and no plroblems yet, but I am keeping my fingers crossed

 

Just had to have mine changed (04 F250 31k). It had started giving me trouble on a trip to Houston and back pulling my 25' T/T. The tech pulled it and it looked just like the pics in the first post and was stuck in the open position. He did clean the port real good before reinstalling. I used Stanadyne from 1500 miles till 20K then switched to Power Serve until now 31k. Had recently up the amount of PS to the max burt am wondering if that might of had an effect? Will go back to the lower amont.

wesran

 

Wesran,

Do you have any idea how one cleans out the port?

 

7 egrs 04 f350 psd 52,000 miles and now after the latest Flash last week my EGT temp on the Down pipe reads 600F around town average outside temps 0f 70-80 ... Any ideas on egr relation again?

 

I did not see him actually clean the port, he just came and showed me the valve and said the port looked just as bad and would have to be cleaned before installing the new one. It didn't take him very long to clean and install. From the time he took it in, changed and cleaned then road tested it was a little over an hour.

 

i will be cleaning mine soon

 

I think this post has gotten too tunnel vision on the original post. F250Wheels pulls his and only has a light coat of carbon which you would think would be the norm but no one comments and everyone is ready to go pull theirs to clean based on the original post. The original poster needs to provide some more specific information. The other post with pictures did not look bad either.
The data needs to be better accumalated, i.e.: heavy wet sticky build up and light carbon coating based on specific infonformation as to, tuners, idling, driving style, PM etc.
I think this type of information would be helpful in deciding whether or not cleaning the EGR should be done on a regular basis. This information could be gathered from those that want to go thru the trouble of pulling the EGR.

 

Curious question t_b

On mine, there is a big goam of wires around my EGR. Between it and the oil filter is a wrapped up bundle that's probably an inch and a half thick. Did you move yours or does it not have that mess? It makes it difficult to get a wrench on mine.

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