TriumphStag wrote:Or you can buy a pre made plate from eBay for a few quid...
On the note about taking slightly longer to start, that is not the case with mine - pretty much starts before I have finished turning the key. Blank has been fitted for well over a year now.
Already had the materials so it just cost my time.
If I hadn't have been doing that the wife would have had me putting shelves up or other household bloke stuff
Didn't have to wait for it to come in the post either
Where and how to fit said plate. (Iv'e already got one in so I didn't pull it apart this time)
EGR removal.
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Remove the 2 T40 torx bolts housing the Egr to the throttle body.One arrow is blue to show there's another bolt out of shot.
Undo the clamp at the base of the Egr either with a flat blade screwdriver of 8mm socket.
Bottom arrows indicate bolts to be loosened if your'e taking the manifold off as well to clean it (highly recomend the cleaning)
One bottom arrow is yellow (The bolt sheared so I didn't bother trying to get the other 1 out)
It's better if you can get them loose but not the end of the world if you can't.
Close up of 1 of the T40 bolts.
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Once the Egr is off you can decide wether or not you want to remove the butterfly from the housing or just tie it open with a tiewrap.
If your just blanking it and using a tie wrap then just slip the plate between the Egr and manifold and replace the torx bolts and nip them up.
Here's 1 I made earlier.This blank has been in 2 vans and covered MANY miles.
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If you want to go the whole way.Throttle body and butterfly removal then these need to be loosened.
2x 10mm bolts.Also the hose clip and pipe comming from the air box.
Butterfly is held in by 2x T15 (T15 is the only small torx bit in my set covered in Egr shite so I must have used it to remove the screws)
If you want to go further and remove the nannas the yellow arrow indicates the 17mm bolt on the support bracket that needs to come out.
Remember the sheared bolt earlier?It's ok as the bracket will bend enough to get the manifold off without un doing the 2 or in my case 1 remaining bottom bolt.
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And it's mate.
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Small yellow arrow indicates WTF.Looks fubar but checked with a mirror and it's clean.
The camera does indeed lie.
Once off You can try to locate the torx screws in all the Egr soot (rubber gloves are highly recomended from this point if you haven't been wearing them)
See pics in my earlier post showing throttle body and manifold.
Due to 5 pic thing.
To be continued..........
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