But as my friend who has the same vehicle warned me, you will always be working on something on it. So I used the Suzuki Forum to read the codes for free using a paperclip and then researched the code and the fix. The forum had some great videos that walked me through each of the steps to remove and clean the EGR Valve, which was extremely helpful. For me, pictures and videos always work best.
The nice thing is that there is plenty of space under the hood of the Suzuki, making it very easy to get to and remove the EGR Valve. As you can see in the pictures, that black plug is hard carbon buildup from the exhaust, which was not easy to remove.
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| Lots Of Work Space |
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| EGR Valve All Plugged Up |
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| Manifold Side Plugged Too! |
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| Nice And Clean Again! |
Thank goodness for my Dremel and grinding stones, which made the job much easier. I ordered the replacement gasket from Autozone on New Year's Day and it is not scheduled to arrive from Memphis until Tuesday. Their shipping cost was over $5 for a $2 gasket, they must be sending it via the Pony Express. I won't be ordering parts from them again anytime soon.
So I won't know for sure until the gasket arrives and I put everything back together if my repair was successful, but I have to believe that just like my nasal passages where plugged over the holidays and I couldn't breath, the Tin Can should breath much easier now.
I hope you are breathing easy and enjoying the weekend. Thanks for the visit and take good care.
Looks pretty darn clean. I wonder if you could use that Dremel on your sinuses!!
ReplyDeleteDon't listen to Donna. If you used that Dremel on your sinuses, you'd just have another mess to clean up.
ReplyDeleteWow, that doesn't even look like the same part. Fingers crossed that all works well when it's back together again. Hopefully no leftover parts.
ReplyDeleteDarned smog elimination stuff anyway... Don't ya just get the idea they were making some bureaucrat happy, rather than designing something that worked...? Anyway it looks all clean now...
ReplyDeleteHopefully, you will be good to go!
ReplyDeleteNice clean up job. The internet is a great way to source information, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteLooking good, new gasket, reassemble and away ya go.
ReplyDeleteNice to be able to repair things yourself, makes a feel good.
Good thing you know what you're doing! Hopefully it will be the last part you have to replace for awhile :)
ReplyDeleteThe new valve looks clean as a whistle. Maybe you should have ordered 2 of those gaskets?
ReplyDeleteYou did an excellent job, Kevin !!
ReplyDeleteHopefully that was the problem that set the light off, but if not, your EGR valve needed attention anyway.
Ya, there is always something to fix, especially anything mechanical !!
Take care ... TnT