Looking to gettin my egr blanked, and remove the cooler. Has anybody made there own egr plates or do they buy them. And what do you with the electrics when it's removed. I've been told to get a copper pipe to go from one side to the other after I blanked the plates for the cooler.

u can make your own no problem mate
I made some for my VW easy to do but for £10 I brought the truck ones

u can use 15mm copper to join the hose together after u remove the cooler or u can get some heater hose and replace it with 1 longer length I have done it both ways

just cable tie or let the muli plug hand out the way no problem with EML cming on

I got just over 2ft of heater hose from my car spares place, cost me a quid!

Cheers lads. Heard it's the first thing you should do. As its prevents HGF and adds a little more bhp to what is slow anyways ha

ha ha not sure it will add any BHP but yeh it will help prevent HGF from pourous coolers

Well I've goth this far. I've created a big plate and a small plate. As that what it said it needs? I hat rig

This look right one big plate and one small

yeh that will do is that steel or alli

just re use those gaskets an maybe a smear or sealant ull be good

I had thought about it tbh mate. Il get some gasket sealer high temp on the way home. Just looked on flea bay and the small one looks right shape and size But the big one looks like a square with angles bolt holes

Steal I think. Just found the metal at work tbh proba a mil and a half think. Seams sturdy. I can't bend it by hand at all

as long as it fits on and over the hole and the bolts line up and seal the holes snug it dont matter what shape they are

Yeah pretty sure it will have tried but it lines up with gaskets. Is there how to guide on This forum. Still need to get the copper pipe I reckon il use heater hose tho. What mill hose do I need

EGR Removal pics

How to :- Remove EGR Valve & Cooler

Cheers lads giving it a go tonight

As everyone else has said, I wouldn't use the copper pipe method myself (done two and used one length of hose ) your doubling the leak risk if you do. Just be careful putting the hose on the rear steel pipe, it bends easily and could be damaged.

I've used air hose for spray painting, as it's a pressured hose. It's a bit smaller but fits snug. Just out of question after removing the cooler I assume the system will just self bleed and for me to keep and eye on the coolent level. Is this correct?

you would not have lost that much coolant mate only what the cooler holds you should not even have to top it up no need to bleed either as you wont have that much air in it will just come out via expansion bottle

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I've used air hose for spray painting, as it's a pressured hose. It's a bit smaller but fits snug. Just out of question after removing the cooler I assume the system will just self bleed and for me to keep and eye on the coolent level. Is this correct?

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I've used air hose for spray painting, as it's a pressured hose. It's a bit smaller but fits snug. Just out of question after removing the cooler I assume the system will just self bleed and for me to keep and eye on the coolent level. Is this correct?

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Well at he mo there on the truck 😳 il just keep an eye on the for the time being. I've got some thicker metal at work I was going to make them out of aswell. And that is about 5-6 mil thick. So after reading your reply il use that instead. It's all sealed on using high temp gasket sealer. There does not seem to be any leaks but il certainly keep an eye out over the weekend at it. And make sure there not going to burn out. Cheers @greigboy

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Well at he mo there on the truck 😳 il just keep an eye on the for the time being. I've got some thicker metal at work I was going to make them out of aswell. And that is about 5-6 mil thick. So after reading your reply il use that instead. It's all sealed on using high temp gasket sealer. There does not seem to be any leaks but il certainly keep an eye out over the weekend at it. And make sure there not going to burn out. Cheers @greigboy

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Yeah I will do mate. Cheers for your input. I did wonder about the diamanté r of the pipe. Defo be changing that today then. Least I now have templates to work from haha 😂