EGR cooler gasket not correctly fit exhaust side

If you keep up on it, it should last many many miles!

 

My Oil Catch Can is a different style, but I believe the filter goes on the intake manifold side.

Are you doing the cut the PCV hose at the middle trick? Makes for handy elbows, and good fit. See page 1 of @danlatu thread on Oil Catch Cans.

If you chuck the hose barbs in a drill press, you can turn them like a lathe and slightly blunt the barbs with a file, makes it more forgiving if you ever want to disassemble.

Hose clamps should not be needed with the hose barb connections, may even be detrimental to the hose ends.

 

Be smart, and use clamps on the hoses. Just don't over tighten them. After ten years though,
they may damage the hoses so you'll have to replace them.

 

It won't hurt to use the clamps.
I believe the pipping(piping?) should be: PCV valve to Catch Can "inlet".
Catch Can "outlet" to intake manifold.
Steel Wool should be on the "intlet" side to slow down and catch most of the oil so you only get
the gases going into the engine.

 

Perhaps the egr valve is bad?
If you've cleared the code, and it comes back, maybe it just needs to be drive a while and
on/off cycles need to build up for the computer to clear it permanantly.

 

@Raytheeagle FYI, if you were curious, I had my IM off yesterday to replace the PCV valve and took a peek into the intakes. Pretty clean. When I cleaned my EGR a couple years ago everything looked gunked, like a demon had spit tar in there. The valves and intake walls were all clean, with only a thin layer of expected crud behind the point of the fuel injectors.

 

I'm a curious lad and love data.

Always good to have comparisons.

Particularly on the same vehicle.

 

I know this is an old post, but i'm thinking that when I cleaned my EGR, this exact thing happened to me; I didn't seat the gasket properly or I put it in backwards.

My question is, is there a certain direction/orientation that this egr cooler gasket needs to be installed? In other words, which direction should the little dimples be facing? towards the cooler or towards the exhaust manifold pipe?

 

IIRC the dimples should protrude in the direction of the gas flow. @Merv Himself discussed in one of his videos. I made a sketch of it somewhere, will check a bit later if I can find it.

I might leave it till next cleaning, suspect it’s preferable but not crucial; a hole’s still a hole, either way it’s flipped.

not 100% sure I got ours right.

 

I never paid attention whether there was a correct orientation to the gasket. I was more concerned about not dropping it while installing it back together.

SM-G781V ?

 

If the stud at the cooler lower bracket is removed (I’ve left mine off permanently), then the cooler can be pulled out without removal of the two rearmost studs from the cooler. When reinstalling cooler these studs hold the gasket and everything’s automatically aligned.