Quote Originally Posted by OffTrack View Post
EGR removal will cause the diesel rattle. On mine most light to medium throttle openings that would normally trigger EGR operation had rattle to some extent.

EGR apparently delays the point of self-ignition, so injector timing has to be advanced to compensate. If you remove EGR the injection timing is too far advanced and you get rattle under some circumstances. That is the downside of EGR removal.

Not sure that this is Joel's issue, however.

Yes, the injector advance can be adjusting in the map files. There are also a lot of maps which provide corrections and adjustments for various conditions.
Interesting.... Mine came with its EGR stuff removed, so I thought nothing of the cold start cackle until now... There's quite a few newer electronically controlled diesels that do it when cold... but maybe not all Td5's..?? Interested to know.