Well, I haven't had a problem with the ol' cruiser in awhile now and everything has been fine and dandy. A month ago while driving on the highway, I noticed a had huge loss of power and a whistling noise coming from the rear of the engine. I pullied over checked where the noise was coming from and I noticed that the vacuum hose coming from the egr valve and connects to the modulator was dissconnected. Connected back and that was that.
While a month later (this past weekend) same noise same loss of power occured while driving. Pullied over and I knew where to look at and what to look for, but this time I noticed that not only was the hose dissconnected, but the modulator was torched too. Well, I knew that at this point from reading past mud thread that the cats were going to be clogged or partially clogged.
So I took the easy (non-ca. friendly) way out and cut off the cats, welded straight pipes in place, and went ahead and replaced the torched modulator and told myself that was the end of this story. Not. Long story short, my egr valve is still torching away. Vacuum hose gets torched and now my damn little plastic cover that covers the rear part of the distributor wires has a nice little burn (the vacuum hose got dissconnected from the bottom of the modulator and was still attached to the egr valve. Vacuum hose was pointed down to the cover and that's why that got torched.
One thing I have noticed is that the egr valve is constantly blowing extremely hot air. What's next? Should I replace the egr valve? Does it sound like my egr valve is bad? Could it be anything else? Any input?
While a month later (this past weekend) same noise same loss of power occured while driving. Pullied over and I knew where to look at and what to look for, but this time I noticed that not only was the hose dissconnected, but the modulator was torched too. Well, I knew that at this point from reading past mud thread that the cats were going to be clogged or partially clogged.
So I took the easy (non-ca. friendly) way out and cut off the cats, welded straight pipes in place, and went ahead and replaced the torched modulator and told myself that was the end of this story. Not. Long story short, my egr valve is still torching away. Vacuum hose gets torched and now my damn little plastic cover that covers the rear part of the distributor wires has a nice little burn (the vacuum hose got dissconnected from the bottom of the modulator and was still attached to the egr valve. Vacuum hose was pointed down to the cover and that's why that got torched.
One thing I have noticed is that the egr valve is constantly blowing extremely hot air. What's next? Should I replace the egr valve? Does it sound like my egr valve is bad? Could it be anything else? Any input?
