EHM or Provent Worth It?

bigcoupee · **Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:34 pm

I dont want to worry about freeze up or provent cost and filters. I dont mind cleaning my boost sensor now and again. Can you guys convince me?

rpapkey · **Joined:** Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:48 pm **Posts:** 39

The oil flat out sludges stuff up. Including but not limited to the intercooler, intercooler hoses, Intake, etc. Mr turbo wants clean dry air. Start feeding it oil through the inlet and it's not going to live as long as it's meant to. Not to mention the amount of restriction between the turbo and the intake, causing power loss.

At the very least if your not going to do something you should probably install the silicone hoses. I believe them to be more oil resistant than rubber ones. I can't imagine the damage that a chunk of rubber hose would do when it starts to fall apart.

Is that enough? I'm sure you'll hear more. Good luck with whatever you decide.

onthehunt · **Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:42 pm

I wouldn't consider the ehm with your location.

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:50 pm

Yesterday may son and I cleaned the intake manifold on his 99 Jetta TDI. It had been 60k since the last cleaning :shock:

The TDI took most of the day. On our VM engines more has to come off to clean it. It had sirously cut his preformance

We used paint remover after scraping the biggest part off followed by pressure washing :cry:

On the brighter side we found that using a solid plate instead of a steel gasket (blocking) on a EGR tube on his 99.5 A4 platform ALH engine (jetta/golf) with the EGR turned down low using vag-com that his has not thrown a cell with 100 miles so far :lol:

Now if a way like this could be found on our CRD/s :roll:

05infernoCRDL · **Posted:** Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:59 pm

Joe Romas wrote:

On the brighter side we found that using a solid plate instead of a steel gasket (blocking) on a EGR tube on his 99.5 A4 platform ALH engine (jetta/golf) with the EGR turned down low using vag-com that his has not thrown a cell with 100 miles so far :lol:

Now if a way like this could be found on our CRD/s :roll:

the SEGR is an electrical steel plate. the EGR always stays closed. if you chose to take the SEGR out and install the bypass plug that is the only way the EGR will open back up

Threeweight · **Joined:** Mon May 14, 2007 5:57 pm **Posts:** 679

I just got in a ccv filter built by TDIWagonGuy (I posted about it a while back). Made from PVC, with a drain valve at the base, packed with a synthetic filtering material. Intake and out spurs, and a screw on cap that can be removed to access the filter material.

Have yet to install (need to get the heater blower recall done). I will afterwards.

Joe Romas · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:14 am

05infernoCRDL wrote:

the SEGR is an electrical steel plate. the EGR always stays closed. if you chose to take the SEGR out and install the bypass plug that is the only way the EGR will open back up

The SEGR is a very good solution with one potential problem

I'm more then capable but don't want to risk any of the long term possible problems caused by opening the insulation. Things like antifreeze have been known to wick up a cable and take out the instrument panel on some VW's :shock:

Our county does not have e-checks yet but has flunked air quality so e-tests are inevitable so any solution must be easially switchable like the "test jumper" :lol:

bbertram · **Joined:** Mon Dec 19, 2005 4:17 pm **Posts:** 144

EHM all the way, I have run it and ZERO complaints and no freeze ups. It works perfectly, even on those -35 days this winter.

crd liberty · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:04 pm

Joe Romas wrote:

05infernoCRDL wrote:

the SEGR is an electrical steel plate. the EGR always stays closed. if you chose to take the SEGR out and install the bypass plug that is the only way the EGR will open back up

The SEGR is a very good solution with one potential problem

I'm more then capable but don't want to risk any of the long term possible problems caused by opening the insulation. Things like antifreeze have been known to wick up a cable and take out the instrument panel on some VW's :shock:

Our county does not have e-checks yet but has flunked air quality so e-tests are inevitable so any solution must be easially switchable like the "test jumper" :lol:

Hi Joe.
The only insulation you have to open doing the SEGR are the wires that need to be tied into.
Cut the wires, skin the insulation back a bit, slide on heat shrink, twist or crimp wires, solder,
smother in sensor safe permatex, slide heat shrink down and heat. Good as new

I myself was very concerned about hacking the wires but it works very well.
Try it, you'll like it :wink:

Steve

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