[Benjaminlee1978]

Hi. I am unable top find a workshop manual to guide me through the removal cleaning and fitting egr valve on my 1.6 I30 blue drive. I know where the EGR is but always like to read up on the job first before I start. Any help and pictures would be gratefully received

[Bogdan1986]

Hello, Benjamin.

I don't have pictures, but from what I remember about the time I changed the EGR valve in my 1.6 crdi FD bluedrive, I removed the air filter box together with the intake hose that connects to the turbo, to have enough space to work.
The valve itself was held by 6 fasteners... The only thing that made the job difficult was the cramped space, but I could get it done with basic tools and a couple of scratches on my hands.

FYI, in my case, the EGR cooler was in a worse state (~90% blockage) than the valve. To remove it, I had to undo a couple of fasteners and disconnect the 2 coolant hoses. With a little care, I managed to lose only about 100 ml of coolant in the process.

Good luck!

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[nzenigma]

I don't have pictures, but from what I remember about the time I changed the EGR valve in my 1.6 crdi FD bluedrive, I removed the air filter box together with the intake hose that connects to the turbo, to have enough space to work.
The valve itself was held by 6 fasteners... The only thing that made the job difficult was the cramped space, but I could get it done with basic tools and a couple of scratches on my hands.

 

Yes easy DIY. Just look at it, switch brain from park to drive and proceed. .....and bleed  . Good luck

[mickd]

I don't have pictures, but from what I remember about the time I changed the EGR valve in my 1.6 crdi FD bluedrive, I removed the air filter box together with the intake hose that connects to the turbo, to have enough space to work.
The valve itself was held by 6 fasteners... The only thing that made the job difficult was the cramped space, but I could get it done with basic tools and a couple of scratches on my hands.

 

Yes easy DIY. Just look at it, switch brain from park to drive and proceed. .....and bleed  . Good luck

" and bleed "     

[nzenigma]

I don't have pictures, but from what I remember about the time I changed the EGR valve in my 1.6 crdi FD bluedrive, I removed the air filter box together with the intake hose that connects to the turbo, to have enough space to work.
The valve itself was held by 6 fasteners... The only thing that made the job difficult was the cramped space, but I could get it done with basic tools and a couple of scratches on my hands.

 

Yes easy DIY. Just look at it, switch brain from park to drive and proceed. .....and bleed  . Good luck

" and bleed "     

 

I should have added 'check our search section' , to get lots of DIY pictures of EGR cleaning and BLOOD.