runningallday
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Thanks for all the tips!! I'll probably start with the safest options and work up! can't wait to have my ALH breathing properly again.
You can buy a clean used one on eBay for $60, keep that in mind... Honestly no reason not to just buy a new one and clean it later, then you can put your car back together right awayWhat should an intake manifold remove/clean/replace cost at a good shop? Mine has about 180K on it.
I'm looking to have it done, any time I work on a rusty car I shear a bolt and end up drilling it out - no WAY I'm trying that on the back of an engine block where I can't even see what I'm doing. Great idea though!You can buy a clean used one on eBay for $60, keep that in mind... Honestly no reason not to just buy a new one and clean it later, then you can put your car back together right away
You could ask thomas exovcds on youtube, he's done it a lot and seems to be active on there.I'm looking to have it done, any time I work on a rusty car I shear a bolt and end up drilling it out - no WAY I'm trying that on the back of an engine block where I can't even see what I'm doing. Great idea though!
Either way, its a perfect recipe for getting all but 1 bolt out - old, rusty, subjected to innumerable heat cycles, and out of view.Intake is held on with Allen caps crews, turbo is held on with nuts. You do not need to remove the turbo to take the intake off.
Sweet thanks! Got worried because the egr one didn't have a metal gasket. I have the kit though so they'll be getting replaced.So all connections have a stamped metal gasket, except the pipe going to the valve itself, if has a composite gasket, that tends to get stuck on the valve.
The EGR cooler still is mostly full of soot, I could blow through it but not very well, it seems impossible to clean properly without destroying it. I did read you can bake it at 500 degrees until it's clear, that may be valid, but I didn't have time to figure that out and needed my car back.I have never encountered a clogged up catalyst on any ALH, ever, and this is with many of them modded and well over 300k+ miles. You won't be able to do the temp trick, as the TDI's exhaust cools down too quickly. Unless you can get under the car while it is being run on a dyno under load, you won't get any meaningful data there.
It also sounds like you may have ruined your EGR cooler. Plenty of good used ones out there. If your EGR valve is leaking, or sticking on slightly, the MAF value under full load (when the ECU requests the EGR be CLOSED) could cause some abnormal readings.