Folks,
I cleaned my EGR today. It took 45 mins from start to finish (including the cleaning).
All you need are:
10mm spanner or sockets
Flat head screw driver
Some petrol or carb cleaner
Some rags and a vacuum cleaner.
To remove the mixer is the sum total of 4x10mm bolts, 3 x jubilee clips and some brute force.
Clean the mixer in petrol and CAREFULLY remove crud from the EGR valve inlet ( I did it with a vacuum cleaner ).
My mixer was about 20% blocked, but the port into the EGR valve itself was about 40% full of crud.
A quick test drive shows a massive improvement in smoothness and willingness to rev and I bet theres going to be a decent economy improvement too - time will tell.
If you are undecided about whether to do this - just crack on! Its dead easy, costs nothing and theres very little scope to make a hash of it. As I mentioned; just be careful not to poke any crud in to the inlet or EGR valve itself.
