EGR Valve, cooler, pipe...oops

Just throw in the towel, and clean what you've got? The pipe and valve are trivial to clean, the cooler takes about 8 hours, with repeated oxi-clean soaks.

 

that drives me crazy about eBay and amazon, i'm never comfortable that i'm ordering the right thing.

 

The big plus: you know you've got the right parts. Price is right too.

 

Go to your nearest car wash and use a pressure washer. Cleaned mine up in under 30 minutes.

 

My cooler cleaned in 30 min

Hardest was removal and fitting

 

That's astounding. My only concern though: the fins in there are thin gauge, basically radiator material. Maybe ok, but I'd hate to find out too late. Regular radiator fins are aluminum I think? And this appears to be stainless steel, so maybe strong enough to take the blast?

Slow but sure with Oxi-Clean works too. Will require a day's down time, coupled with all the grief of getting it out and back together. Took me two days, lol, but I was in no rush, and it was not imperative to have the car available.

 

Compared to using hot oxyclean soaks, looks about the same:

Clean_egr_cooler by mjoo posted Jun 7, 2017 at 10:49 AM

 

My oxi-clean result, and thanks to @mjoo for suggesting it:

 

And mine too! The spare that I bought was completely clogged

 

What is the cooler pipe and why clean it? I have 2010 with almost 200K miles.

SM-G920V ?

 

Contact the seller and he may have the one you need and exchange it. It's worth asking.

It seems like there is a cottage industry just waiting for someone to do an exchange service with these parts. You send me your clogged ones, I send you clean ones. Who needs the money and has the time?

 

It gives you an idea of what the overall condition of the system is in.

If you’ve not done this by 200 k miles, I’d suggest getting the egr circuit cleanse on your short list of to do’s .

 

SHOW OFFS!!! Dam you guys, nice job. Lookin nice & clean.

Gotta tackle this late this, or early next year. Or might just chicken out & drive to hybridpit to hav'em do it w/catch can install.

 

I’ll have my spare clean and ready to go in a couple of weeks .

You’re welcome to it if you want to work for it.

Or you can drive down south and shell out some $$$.

Pressure washer will be my next tact on Sunday .

 

No loss, just post it on the sell section on the forum so an owner of a Prius C can put it to use to prolong ownership of their C.

 

He already did.

But it’s for $140.

I think it’ll be there at that price for a bit.

 

Take some before and after photos before the wash. Engine bay wash included? Got the next 2 days off til new job begins, Monday begins the 2 hour round trip commute.

 

Whatever you want to do.

Just know that I f we are doing the egr circuit, we start early in the day as well need time to get things apart and replaced .

You’re engine bay looks great compared to ours.

But we can add that to the list.