EGR Valve Flow Insufficient, Gotta pass emissions Options

[estaticd]

At the bottom I have another question.... please scroll down.

Hey all, I'm just trying to troubleshoot this problem on my own, which is probably a dumb idea but the stealership wants to milk me for $400-600 to fix the problem, which is pretty much out of the question.

My mechanic says it'll be far less than that, but even still... if I can fix it on my own it will always be cheaper.

The main question I want to know is if I can just disconnect the thing alltogether, since the emissions place I am going to does not do a visual inspection... but will not pass it as long as the CEL is on, which it is, and which it has been for awhile now.

And if so, how would I go about doing this?

-Wayne

This post has been edited by estaticd: Jun 6, 2005 - 4:08 PM

[estaticd]

Yeah... well I got everything unbolted like you said... sprayed down the EGR valve and pipe with brake cleaner (used pretty much entire can on it) and it wasn't very dirty at all...

Drove it for 40 miles, then CEL came back on.

I still gotta check if the valve is working at all.

I got a vaccum gauge(EGR) and multimeter (VSV? forget the name of it) and I'm going to have a go at it tomarrow.

Emissions suck.