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  • Start date Start date Oct 4, 2005
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90mustang4cyl

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I did some searches of the EGR, but found nothing related to my problem. I put on a Ranger manifold a few weeks ago, and couldn't re-use the egr pipe from my car or the rangers. Neither would reach. So I am running without the egr being fed by the manifold. I replaced the stock o2 sensor sense the connectors were too short to reach each other. I have new sparks too. The problem is, it likes to surge about a minute or two after start up, regardless of the enigne temp. It died once or twice too. Could the EGR be the cause of my problem? Thanks.
 
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It's possible. You've got two choices to fix the problem. You can remove the EGR valve and fab up a b-off plate to cover the flange and do away with the EGR all together, or You can do what I did. I took both EGR pipes and cut and welded them together to create a tube that fit the Ranger manifold to the Stang EGR valve.

Here's how I did it. I loosely attached the Stang tube to the EGR valve and let it sit. Then I attached the Ranger tube to the manifold and found where the two tubes run in basically the same spot. The tube I got with my Ranger manifold was bigger in diameter than the Mustang tube; big enough that the other tube fit inside it. I made a mark on each tube about an inch or so apart from each other to give some overlap and allow the Mustang tube to fit inside a ways. I cut both tubes, then fit the smaller tube inside the larger one, installed it back on the vehicle as one piece so that I could get the alignment of the two pieces right. I made a mark at the joint where the two pieces come together so I could tell how they were supposed to line up when I removed it for welding. I welded the two tubes together, slid one of the ceramic wraps over the new tube (to hide my ugly, yet effective welding ) and was back in business.
 
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me and the tech at the exhaust shop I went to figured it out. If I had the tools, I would have done it myself to save some money. But the best part was he didn't charge me a thing. He even gave me a clamp to hold the smaller pipe inside the larger one. If the egr isn't at fault, I don't want to keep the car b/c I doubt I would have the money to fix everything. I just wish I had a carb'd set up sometimes.
 
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Don't give up that easy. Parts are fairly cheap for these cars, and they really are easy to work on. You could certainly do alot worse. Like anything else, a little education goes a long way. There' s a wealth of information floating around the web specific to Mustangs.

Take it from someone who owned a carbureted 2.3, EFI is much better.

Glad to read you got the EGR pipe straightened out. It was pretty easy wasn't it?
 
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It was pretty easy. Now I need to drill the bung and then I will get it hooked up, and should be done. Thanks for your help.
 
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