Blocking of EGR

G'day Phil

Do you know of any real gains to be made with the 1HD-FTE by blocking off the EGR other than preventing the above problems? Any downsides that you are aware of?

Thanks
Jack

I am not aware of any downsides as far as the motor goes. The EGR is purely there for emission control.
The photo with all that carbon was mine - at 80k. It took a lot of effort to clean it out and the motor has performed better and delivered better economy since, and its just ticked over 100k.

Hi there Phil,your pictures and explanations was a lot easier to understand then all that mumbo from the other 10 pages of high tec talk. Thats not a good sign, is it ??? to have so much build up at such short klms on your vehicle. Obviously all these vehicles with the same motor will be looking the same I would imagine. So how often are you required to do as you have done and clean it all out before it does some serious damage ?? Or is it some thing that will only be done when the vehicle owner notices it running shi@house was this the case with you or did you just do some probing around and come across it ?? Steve M

Steve,
I have a few mates with 1HD-FTE 78/79series who have all followed the advice of the LCOOL article and inactivated their EGRs.
One had a 2005 model and had a look at 35k, and said there was lots of carbon in there too. So he's cleaned it up and doctored the EGR, so it's no longer active.

I thought my vehicle was a touch underpowered; it was blowing a bit of black smoke when I floored it while offroading in sand - other vehicles didn't do that; and fuel comsumption was about 1 l/100k worse than mates with identical vehicles. No major problem, but it wasn't perfect.

Then George at LCOOL published that article. After doctoring the EGR, its all good again. It sounds a bit better and the turbo whistle is audible again.