Thread: TD5 EGR Removal - Do it

I got my kit from TD5 Alive Ltd EGR Bypass

A little under $100 delivered to my door and of excellent quality.

not wanting to ask a silly question here, but what do you do with the little hose that runs off the valve after youve put in the bypass kit
also, does the block off plate come with / need a gasket ??

Thanks all,

The kit doesn't come with a gasket and many say you don't need one but I used high temp RTV gasket sealant just in case.

The tube I believe you are referring to (runs off the top of the EGR Valve) runs to the EGR Modulator (Vaccuum). This part is also made redundant when the EGR is removed so the Modulator is removed as well. The kit I got came with a plug for the vaccuum source tube.

Peter

Fitted a TDAlive kit a little over a month ago.....from a recommendation from a work colleague. Would have sourced from Tombie2...had I known he did them!!!

Mail service was excellent...here in no time.

Mine is a 2004 TD5 130 hence the EU3 version of the EGR valve.

Once the bypass tube is fitted, the vacuum hoses from the EGRV get plugged with a handy spare small bolt/plug. The elec leads that head to the 2 solenoid units (mounted on the inner right wing) are disconnected.

I didn't have a long enough allen key to reach the bolts for the heater on the head itself, so I just blanked off the outlet of the heater for the meantime.

Yet to pick up a change to fuel economy, and I fitted a Tombie2 remap about the same time so can't quote power improvement....there was also a snorkel, air filter, MT's in a short time period as well.

I did a 20 hour round trip Perth to north eastern goldfields and the truck performed flawlessly. It ate up the hills east of Perth.....and if anyone knows the Welshpool road where it heads up the Darling Scarp, it flies up there holding 5th gear ...


aew849

04 130 DCPU

I’ve got the TD5 Alive kit and it came with all the connections except the plug for the vacuum line which I've now "screwed and taped". I took off the all the redundant coolant plumbing and re plumbed from the line from the oil cooler back into the coolant line just below the water reservoir. Being a 2001 build TD5 what I should have done was take coolant directly form the coolant pipe and diverted it to the lower radiator nipple (needs to be taped) as they did with the earlier models. This keeps it all standard.

Hi Scott,

I have a TD5alive unit on order for my 2000 TD5 which I am expecting to arrive either today or tomorrow. I thought it was only the facelift models that required modification to the coolant plumbing. Is this something I need to do with my model as well?

mate I can't recall but I don't believe the 200 TDI's had the water cooler. But I would recommend that you take the rocker cover breather out of the air intake. I did that on my 200 Disco