While I'm online.......EGR valve - where is it?

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tonyw

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Well, I now have my Haynes manual and am at the page where it details the EGR valve. Problem is, it has a tiny picture showing the valve, but nothing that I can identify around it to give me a hint as to where it is in the engine bay!

Now, I know you hardened Discoverist's out there will be laughing your socks off now, :eek: but I really would appreciate any hints/photographs, etc, as to where it is! I have the 300 TDi engine (I was sure about this at first......), and had intended to fit a blanking plate to the EGR. I have since read threads that say you only need to disconnect the EGR plug. Reasons being that (a) it is easier to do and (b) it would need to be reconnected before the MoT anyway. That really raises another question; Why fit the blanking plate if it means an automatic MoT failure? :confused:

I think I'll have to locate one of those OEM Workshop CD's...... ;)
 
yella disco said:
its on the inlet manifold mate, fitting the blanking plate doesn't neccesarily make it fail the mot, it just ups the emmisions a tad but if yer emmisions are high it will take it over the threshold hope this helps ;)
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Thanks Yella Disco, so would the best option be to disconnect the plug and tie-wrap it to a safe place?
 
Well, I have added a photograph below of the inlet manifold as I see it, and correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't it already have the blanking plate fitted? :eek:

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/attachment.php?attachmentid=821&stc=1&d=1157461519

And, why does this part of the engine bay look so different from that picture in Ormus's post in the "exaust gas blanking plate?" thread -
http://www.landy110.co.za/images/EGT_Pics/JH004.jpg

The pipework is different in my 300 Tdi engine! Plus, if that isn't the EGR blanking plate, then where is the EGR? :confused: Does this mean that I have no EGR fitted? (which might explain why I can't find the EGR electrical plug too!).

Lastly, looking around my engine bay, I could not find the throttle position sensor! :mad: Discomania told me in another post that its on the injection post, in the right hand side of the engine bay, on the right hand side of the pump. But I can't see it. If you look at the first image above, I don't think that you'll be able to see it either.
 

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You don't have an EGR valve, that plate is an EGR blanking plate, I think someone has taken it off and replaced the pipe from the intercooler to the inlet manifold. Exactly what I am going to do next week.

Although I have seen some LR workshop manuals with the same setup, so someone who knows may tell us, if yours for some reason didn't have one in the first place. I know that certain export models don't have it so it does exist.

Also why you proably can't see the throttle position sensor.
 
Thanks Discomania. I guess that now makes the TPS question a moot point.

Do you know why the rubber pipework also seems to be different, between the 2 pictures? The pipework seems to route past the washer bottle on my engine, yet it goes up by the bulkhead on the other engine!
 
I don't like being the doubting thomas, but my engine is in the top picture, and Ormus in the bottom picture. If anything, my engine looks like the pipe is going forward and up, whilst the pipe on Ormus's engine looks as though it is going rearwards and down.
 
I have just looked again, and its not a snorkel, if you look you will see the air filter on the left hand side of the engine, its a 300 in a defender, yours is in a Disco right?
 
discomania said:
I have just looked again, and its not a snorkel, if you look you will see the air filter on the left hand side of the engine, its a 300 in a defender, yours is in a Disco right?
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Yep, mine is a Disco! :)
 
So your filter is the front right hand side (from the front), the Defender has it on the left hand side in a cylinder housing.
 
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