EGR cooler gasket not correctly fit exhaust side

How's everyone going

Removed the egr on my 2010 today as it recently logged P0401, figured best sort it out before driving any more, lucky I did! found the gasket half hanging off the manifold side, only on by the top thread someones had the cooler off before, like who does this?

Good news is the cooler looks reasonably clean, i will also take off the manifold and pcv, clean everything, and install a catch can.

Not sure if this gasket is worth cleaning up and reusing, its slightly discolored from heat in one spot which to be expected considering how it was on there! Think it should seal, theres a bit of soot to clean off but it's not too kinked or bent, still looks decent really, i imagine it's not cheap through the dealer and I'm pretty tight

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Hey EGR gurus cheers for replies

It's fair to say I found that little exhaust leak that's been bugging me lol

Mendel I must admit it's pretty tempting to wind that stud out and toss it, and maybe I will.. cheers I don't have too much trouble with getting the gasket on personally, maybe im just patient or know how to hold my tongue haha..

Haven't cleaned everything up yet but I got myself a fresh can of oven cleaner from coles last night, have a few other chores on the go today and want a chance to chase a gasket on Monday.

Hi Dogman, the thing is it's actually not really that mangled or damaged as such, it just has some carbon on it where it crossed path with exhaust hopefully that will clean off with some oven cleaner and steel wool, it should clean up 98% compared to how it was.

cheapest gasket i can find online is about 70 bucks with postage, it's only 20 for the gasket but postage 50 and I don't really want to wait a month for it to come from the other side, I will check the dealer tomorrow and check parts stores for generic brand metal film exhaust friendly gasket for some other vehicles, and a couple people I know might have a good used gasket

I noticed a lot of people on here don't even replace the rubber manifold gasket, I will inspect it but feel it's probably going to be squashed and money will end up on dealers hand for that at least

Matt

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Mendel I missed this on my last as we both posted at the same time thanks for the part numbers, will have a google now!

Cheap parts at Amayama I will definitely keep an eye there in future but can not wait that long to get my 2010 back going, I've already been a month in passenger seat of the Mrs poor old 2008 and sometimes driving my tch, I enjoy driving too much to stay passenger for much longer and hate driving the camry the seat is just horrible (among other things)



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I think it will be okay, just want to clean the carbon off before I say for sure, I just thought because it's been jammed in the path of flow it may have a "hot spot"

If I can get a new one on the shelf locally at a reasonable price, I will .. otherwise this sucker is probably going back on!

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ended up being cheaper at the dealer than expected, $5.95 for the egr to exhaust gasket, $25.20 for manifold gasket and about $4 for the egr pipe to manifold o ring, only thing i have to wait 3 days but that's okay just enables me to be lazy

 

Feeling doomed (always the pessimist)

Manifold was completely clogged at #1, had to chip at it with wire and feed it brake cleaner for a couple minutes to dig a path through the carbon, who knows how long it's been like this I have only owned the car about 10 months and 8,000km

Inlet ports both head and manifold have a good bit of carbon on them, not sure how many km on this engine, it was replaced before I got the car,, hence the egr gasket being misaligned and it didn't seem like the egr cooler had been off the engine before, only disconnected at the exhaust.

This all started one hot day about a month ago I got P0401 so I stopped driving it an hour later with intention to do an egr clean before driving it any more, it always did and still does run perfectly and uses minimal oil (that I have noticed) and after sitting a few days always starts up without shake and runs beautifully.

After finding the manifold blocked like this I feel like I'm on borrowed time lol, guess all I can do is clean everything and add the catch can and drive it with my fingers crossed

All the EGR components are now perfectly clean but can anyone confirm if oven cleaner is safe on the manifold, inlet ports are pretty grubby and I'm tired of trying to clean it with carb / brake cleaner




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Hi Dogman

Done the cooler and egr valve/pipes etc, that all come up clean.. & i already used oven cleaner on the egr valve woops?

We cant get Gunk here, carb cleaner and gun or pipe brushes will be okay for the little egr ports in manifold but i wouldn't mind to get the inlet ports a little better, but probably wont waste too much time on that its pretty pointless

The (unknown km) replacement engine was installed a couple years ago when the car had about 360-37k km on odometer .. so its done a few miles since it got in there, odometer is now 455k km. I think the egr and cooler came pre-installed on the engine as it did not seem to me like the cooler had been previously removed from engine, only disconnected at exhaust

don't like seeing that port for cyl1 completely blocked, it leaves a very dirty taste in my mouth

 

Hey Mendel thanks for that, i know you are somewhat cautious about this stuff so i trust you're judgement, just finished up reading the 100 page thread on egr cleaning, trying to decide on occ location is killing me

Intake seems pretty bad to me, what do you think? either way if its okay to use with the plastic manifold i will carefully foam it up with oven cleaner while trying to avoid the metal inserts and give it a wash out within 5 minutes, the parts wash/carb cleaner is not making much of an impression on the intake ports and not looking forward to cleaning the ports in head