I spent today cleaning. The amount of buildup was pretty bad. The EGR is done, I cleaned it with hand tools and alot of carb cleaner. I ran several cans of degreaser, carb cleaner, brake cleaner through the manifold. I scraped and scraped with various tools. A ton of gunk came out, but it still obviously needs more cleaning. Audi,VW 1.9TDI EGR valve cleaning, passat,golf,audiA4,A6 how to clean egr valve PO400,polo 1.4 tdi egr valve clean. Driving a diesel slowly, or on light throttle settings at low revs, never giving it a good thrashing (which they all need and you won't hurt it!) does also bugger up the egr. Also, supermarket diesel does contribute to more carbon build up it's reckoned. May 14, 2016. #3. I started with a dynamic delete via a tune. Better economy, 5-10% and more power from the tune. When the system started leaking I bypassed it. Not much point to mentioning but no EGR runs better than a leaking EGR. Only downside is slower warmup, mostly apparent well below freezing. Location. Canada. TDI. 2002 mk4 golf. Nov 12, 2020. #16. It's not that I can't fabricate my own blanking plate. It's just that the egr delete kit comes with a straight pipe and a blanking plate already hence I did not make one because I plan to take out the egr valve and cooler too. cynide wrote:Hi Guys looking for any advice on EGR valve problems. Im driving a 2005 96kw polo sportline @200k on the clock. I have what seems to be a pretty bad "leak" coming from the breather hole just underneath the EGR valve. Its spraying out quite abit of muck, and I also have a build up of gunk that seems to be coming from my intercooler. ogSl. A guide how to clean the carbon deposited on the anti shudder valve of modern volkswagen tdi diesel cars , usually people think its diesel throttle body but First, the pressure of the exhaust gas must be relatively high, as the EGR is taking exhaust off from the manifold section in between the cylinders and the turbo. This then means that if the egr valve and bypass flap are both open, high pressure exhaust will actually displace intake air in the total air intake charge. losing water,no sign of head gasket gone so removed egr cooler and tested it by putting a air line to it and putting in a bucket of water and found air leaki The reason for asking is due to the EGR getting choked up on SWMBO's 1.9 tdi. The engine mgmt light comes on, VW want something like £900 for a new one or £200 to clean the old one out and the forums warn that even doing that might leave you with a faulty one. Going through the faults of the car . the car has no faults other then the bumper that was hurt . so i decided to quickly check the EGR Valve 2009 jetta wagon TDI. Jul 6, 2012. #1. Does anyone have a picture that could be sent of a 2009 TDI Jetta Sport wagon to show where the EGR valve is. My TDI has 100,000 miles on it and it is sending a code indicating an EGR problem. Have been told most of the time it is just a mater of cleaning the valve up and it is ready to go.

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