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    Today’s project..EGR bypass valve block plate

    Living in MA I have yearly safety and emissions testing. I run deleted 11 months a year then flash back to stock and reinstall everything. And no before it’s mentioned I am not removing the cooler yearly and deal with that hassle

    I have been doing this since 2010.

    The issue I have been plagued with is the EGR cooler bypass valve always gums/seized up after the 11 months. I try to free it up my moving it back and forth before a code gets set (yeah it’s happened a few times.

    This year it got stuck at full open and threw a check engine light.

    Rather than mess with it, I bought a low mileage valve and actuator from a member at the cumminsforum

    Once I had the new one in hand I took off the old one and replaced it. Perfect. Everything now worked as it should

    It got me thinking, that valve and actuator took me no more than 10 mins to remove. It would be nice if that was removed for the 11 months too.

    I spent a day trying to find the block off plate, but yeah... that doesn’t exist.

    This is what you are left with when you remove the valve



    So I rummaged around and found a 5”x4” piece of 3/8 plate steel.

    Traced the gasket onto the steel and broke out the plasma cutter and made this



    Worked it over with the grinder and got it all installed

    Now along with all the exhaust parts that I store safely inside to prevent theft on my truck I can not store the valve and actuator in there too

    Not too bad. Whole project took about 30 mins








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    Nice work man! It does make you wonder why no one makes a plate like that now.

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    Nice work friend, maybe you could make few $$ with your idea.

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartdave View Post
    Living in MA I have yearly safety and emissions testing. I run deleted 11 months a year then flash back to stock and reinstall everything. And no before it’s mentioned I am not removing the cooler yearly and deal with that hassle

    I have been doing this since 2010.

    The issue I have been plagued with is the EGR cooler bypass valve always gums/seized up after the 11 months. I try to free it up my moving it back and forth before a code gets set (yeah it’s happened a few times.

    This year it got stuck at full open and threw a check engine light.

    Rather than mess with it, I bought a low mileage valve and actuator from a member at the cumminsforum

    Once I had the new one in hand I took off the old one and replaced it. Perfect. Everything now worked as it should

    It got me thinking, that valve and actuator took me no more than 10 mins to remove. It would be nice if that was removed for the 11 months too.

    I spent a day trying to find the block off plate, but yeah... that doesn’t exist.

    This is what you are left with when you remove the valve

    https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3c1ae5a3ce.jpg

    So I rummaged around and found a 5”x4” piece of 3/8 plate steel.

    Traced the gasket onto the steel and broke out the plasma cutter and made this

    https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...36894ea6e7.jpg

    Worked it over with the grinder and got it all installed

    Now along with all the exhaust parts that I store safely inside to prevent theft on my truck I can not store the valve and actuator in there too

    Not too bad. Whole project took about 30 mins

    https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3a87b2394d.jpg
    https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7806f25893.jpg





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    Great job looks good very well done

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    Very cool.

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    Man I give you prop's!! I dont know if I could go through all that work every year.
    Thats dedication.

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    love it ,what tuner do you use ?


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    MM3 from DRD. Used a mini for about 7 years and switched a few months ago


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