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Originally Posted by nicholas
Good idea. I'm tempted to pull the EGR valve, make a cap for the intake manifold, then find some sort of cap for the EGR valve tube. I'm not so sure how easy that would be since I'm sure it is a metric size.
That would be a pretty good way to make sure that no hot gas is coming up, but it would take <10min to out back together in the event that I have to pass emissions in the future.
If I could get my hands on a broken EGR valve I could cut the nipple portion off and weld a plate over it to seal it off.
Does anyone have an broken EGR valve laying around that they would be willing to part with?
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I'm not endorsing this idea, just floating it as a problem solving exercise.
What about creating a sheet steel gasket without a center hole for the end of the EGR on the exhaust side? That should short end the heat at the source. Passing emissions sniff tests might not do so well though.
IMHO YMMV