Or...like me, is everyone doing "off road testing." I wondered who has their EGR running and if they are having problems OR not! Consider this an informal survey. Reasons for running operable EGR welcome!

I thought mine was running fine with the EGR but it turns out one of the rubber fittings at the thermo-vac switch on the t-stat housing was torn so there's no telling how long its been disabled. I was planning on dealing with it later. I'm going to eventually do away with all of the extra vac lines and such so unless its stuck open I guess its inoperable right now. Runs great.

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1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo

I'm doing off road testing on the 300D for an indefinate length of time.

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.

Same here.

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'17 Metris(VITO!) - 37k - wifes (OC-41k)
'09 Sprinter 3500 Winnebago View - 62k (OC - 67k)
'13 ML350 Bluetec - 95k - dad's (OC-98k)
'01 SL500 - 103k(km) - dad's (OC-110,000km)
'16 E400 4matic Sedan - 148k - Brothers (OC-155k)

There's gotta be someone out there with an operable EGR. So how's it running?

..........failed to follow the final step in the instruction procedure...............

Maybe I should mention that on my '85 it was working. When idling, if I unplugged the line to the EGR, I noticed the idle would raise a small amount, barely noticable. Other than that she ran great. On that one I really think it worked. The strangest thing, though, is that when I unplugged it, my 0-60 times went from about 18 seconds up to around 22. I tested this multiple times and found it to be consistant. I started a thread about this but no one could come up with an answer. It was suggested that I must have done something else while I was under there but I assure you, all I did was put a vac cap on that line. I plugged and unplugged it at least five times and did as many runs on the same stretch of road and my 0-60 time was consistantly 3-4 seconds worse. Since it ran faster with it hooked up I left it like it came. Maybe it had something to do with the '85's special emissions stuff.

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Seth

1984 300D 225K
1985 300D Donor body
1985 300D Turbo 165K. Totaled. Donor Engine. It runs!!!
1980 300SD 311K My New Baby.
1979 BMW 633csi 62K+++? Dead odo

gee, i was planning to put my EGR back on so it could crud up my intake, but I seem to have misplaced it.................

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'82 300SD - 361K mi - "Blue"

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."

listen, look, .........and duck.

Could perhaps be related to the tranny shifting differently...ie...leaking EGR stuff?

1984 300d Turbo 136k
Replace Turbo And Egr Was Sticking Open, Lose Turbo Pressure
Remove And Carbon Clean, Power Is Now Ok, It Would SloW Close At Fuel Stop And Stay Open After 1/2 Mile Lose Turbo Power, Like A V-8 Power Now

mines still all connected. i had it disconnected on my first one. no problems so far

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umm i dont think the egr stcking open will effect the turbo

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I'm not doing any off road tests. It's just that sometime about a year ago, it just fell off! All that's left are some odd looking plates where it should be.

Where do I put the EGR on this intake? I just can't seem to find where it goes?

Guess I have the "pre-egr" manifolds...


...something like that...

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There is a window on the EGR. If you apply vacuum and release it you should see the pressure plate move up and down.

Danny

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