slugish transits

[gazza]

hello everyone stumbled accross your forum, very good to see a useful site for transits, read with intrest about smokey / slugish transits, i have a 99 100 lwb non turbo, its mint and well looked after. up untill a couple of months ago i had always been disapointed with the amount of go and mpg, best i could get was 34 mpg and it always felt a bit flat, i service my kit regularly so it wasnt filters etc just inherent to the breed. that was untill i had it off the road to shift me tax about, i decided to have the inlet manifold off to do the valve clearances, it was full of black gunge, spent a week soaking in jizer, got that cleaned then had a good look at the set-up. what a naff emmisions control set up!, egr has now been disconnected, butterfly valve in air intake cable-tied 90 degrees relative to shut position, rod from injector pump to butterfly valve removed, breather from oil filler blanked off at inlet mainifold and a new bit of pipe run into an old bottle, gunge scrapped out of inlet ports, all this has resulted in a motor that breaths properly, 40mpg and a 2.5d that feels like a 2.5d! hope this of use to you all, ford should be ashamed of such a crude set up!

[Luke]

Thanks for the Tip gazza!!! and good to have you on board!!!

[Blue van man]

Hi Gazza,

Just read your thread on cleaning out the soot and doing away with the EGR valve,so I'm off to try it this weekend and look forward to seeing the results.

will let you know how i get on next week.

Thanks again for the great tip mate.

Blue van man

[Aquanaut]

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