EGR tube...? EGR removal...?

[High Mileage]

So the EGR tube on my Ranger rotted into pieces, now my truck is running like complete garbage. I've been unable to find this piece anywhere but the dealer, and with a newborn on the way, so $141 is alot to pay for it. I'm not even sure I could completely remove the old one, due to the rot and rust. This is the first vehicle that I've owned that even has an EGR system, so I'm pretty unfamiliar with them. Can I just unplug the pressure sensor and valve? What are the pros/cons of eliminating the system? Thanks in advance for your help...

 

[buckshotz43]

i just looked on google for them and amazon ive seen them for about 75 bucks which is a good change, my egr and DPFE are bad on my ranger but im payin about 120 for them online is the way to go. from what the advanced auto guy said to me is its just for california emissions regs. but some how i think its important, why else would they put them in a car ya know?

 

[toxa]

EGR = Exhaust Gas Recirculation. It's to lower emissions. Recycles part of engines exhaust back in to the intake. What a bunch of tree hugging bull crap. You can fix it or you can just block it off. On my grand prix i just blocked it off on the exhaust and intake. Car ran just fine. If/when egr starts giving me problems on my ranger it will go too.

 

[oldfordman]

Folks- be careful about that attitude of just blocking off the EGR tube. On newer vehicles, the EGR is an important part of keeping your engine from pinging. Feeding a little exhaust back into the intake lowers combustion chamber temps, thus reducing pinging. Our new vehicles are already running as lean as possible, it doesn't take much to get them pinging. I bought my '99 Ranger used with about 90K miles on it. Pinged like hell, but was throwing no error codes. Took me 4 months to systematically find all the little things that added up to a big pinging problem- a small vaccum leak, small crack in the EGR tube, DPFE sensor just starting to go bad, a bit of carbon, etc. The Vulcan flex fuel engines are notorious for pinging unless everything is just right.