Is it impossible to remove with the motor in the car? Any type of tool I can use?

In or out of the car the best tool for the job, at least if you need to reuse the pipe is one of those open boxed brake line wrenches.  I've done a few the last week or so pulling some engines apart and between the brake line wrench, pb blaster, and a hammer I haven't had any trouble. 

In or out of the car the best tool for the job, at least if you need to reuse the pipe is one of those open boxed brake line wrenches.  I've done a few the last week or so pulling some engines apart and between the brake line wrench, pb blaster, and a hammer I haven't had any trouble. 

 

 

Yeah that's the tool I have

The end on the head its an absolute p.i.t.m.f.a. but it can be done

The end on the head its an absolute p.i.t.m.f.a. but it can be done

It seems like I would be better off taking off the drive side wheel? Mind you when I last checked the car was on the ground, I mean I can fit under the car on the ground but that damn crossmember... The top is going to be harder.. I might have to hit it with some heat.. I never got the top part off when I did my head gaskets two years ago.. I'm going to try heat and kroil I hope the last owner did not do anything stupid.

 

At least I feel better knowing it's doable on car.

If you remove the egr unit, you can remove the studs that go into the IM and will give you working room.At least for the top one.

That brass nut LOVES to round off.

Everytime I have to do one it's an adventure.

Wound up using the above procedure and a pipe wrench to get that one off. Didn't have to do the lower(lucky me) as I was only removing the IM.

 

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Mine is almost rounded off.. I can no longer use my 17 mm wrench so now I need to use vice grips :-/ I'm not sure if anyone ever touched it before but I've tried off and on like 10 min at a time to remove the top part but it wont move.. So today I'm going to take the torch to it with some kroil sprayed on it.

 

The end that goes into the head is easy as pie for some reason..

 

Don't worry I'm going to give it the finger next year when I swap to a Ej22 for a turbo project.

I'd love to give every sort of egr system the finger, except for the 6.0L powerstroke, I make decent commision money selling spoob for those lol

Yes! all done! A little aerokroil and a 2lb deadblow made it easy.. plus no need to raise the intake manafold.

 

Funny thing was the pipe it's self was not clogged but the small tube leading up to the BPT was pretty clogged.

 

One thing will the code clear it's self or do I have to clear it?

 

I hope I don't since I don't feel like doing the 55 MPH drive cycle for 15 min again.

Mine cleared itself after a few days when I did mine. 

Ah ok