The heck with the EGR question/response --This guy has it figured
out about Waldo and Lazy parents!! Very "To the point sir!"
At 05:42 PM 1/21/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Technically speaking, the EGR is not to provide for faster warm-ups. Rather
>it is designed to heat incoming air, which increases combustion
>temperatures, which in turn reduces emission of NOx. You cannot simply
>remove the tube without fabbing a blockoff plate. You can use a peice of
>old intake manifold gasket (the graphite/metal gasket) and make a gasket to
>fit, but without a hole for the gas to travel through the tube. In effect,
>making a blockoff gasket.
>
>If you don't have any handy, send me a SASE and I'll send you a peice.
>
>The sky is blue due to refraction of light through upper atmospheric dust
>and ice.
>
>Waldo is a fictional character, designed and encouraged by liberal
>democrats. This is to promote social decay by removing responsibility from
>lazy parents. It also provides them with a scapegoat when their child is
>given a neurodepressant drug, rather than the belt across the ass they so
>desperately need.
>
>-Jon Smith
>
>
>
>I recall someone mentioning blocking off the EGR valve in a response to one
>of my pinging posts. Well now that everything seems to be peachy, I need
>something else to keep me from getting bored lol. When I did the intake
>gaskets I saw the EGR tube ran to a place on the exh manifold. Assuming
>this is like any older engine I've worked on, this just runs some exhaust
>through the intake to warm it up a tad faster right? I've got an exhaust
>tick, I have to assume the seal didn't survive the R&R. I'm in a
>non-emissions area so this should be fine. Is this just a manner of taking
>the tube off between the manifolds or is it more involved than that?
>Someone mentioned a cheap kit from dealers that does this as well? Any part
>numbers or should I just ask for the EGR block off kit? How cheap is cheap?
> Why is the sky blue? Where's Waldo? Lol. Thanks guys,
>
>Travis
>'92 Dak 5.2 4x4
>
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