Mountainman wrote:
If your mileage is where it should be, I would just delete the EGR, and let the CCV oil slowly remove the junk. Well, then again, I initially installed a weeks kit, and scraped the main blockage out with a spoon, that's easy without removing the valve cover. If you do pull the valve cover, do yourself a favor and get new rockers (unless they feel almost new) and ARP head studs

X2 on that, mine are cleaned the same way CCV oil, and the myth about the fresh air hose rotting due to oil is not true, I had one break and it was clean and the rubber did not feel any different by the turbo or air filter. Heat and steady movement is the killer of that hose, we need a silicone replacement. Also over tightening that hose down by the turbo is not necessary as the turbo had a good sized barb to hold it on.
BTW, the hose that cracked was original. and I only had it out last year for ARP install and it was fine, so I got 10 years out of the fresh air hose with CCV intact all 10 years.