Help locating EGR valve

[s0ck]

A is your inlet manifold side.
B would have to be the exhaust manifold side.

The EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) sits at the exhaust side.

 

[s0ck]

Why clean it if you blank it off?

You'd want to clean the inlet manifold if possible.

 

[mjt]

edit/ some EGR valves can just be blanked off without worrying about warning lights but others have an electrical connection that needs something doing to it, can't remember what, might just need to be terminated.

It appears so

You'd want to clean the inlet manifold if possible.

Yeah, I should have really, but I forgot as I wasn't doing the work myself.

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Thanks for the advice so far, still not sure were it is though, up A or down B?

I don't want to take the valve off just spray in the pipe leading to the valve.
Could I remove the pipe at B on my diagram and spray inside to reach the valve?
Cheers

You need to do more than just spray it, here's a good cleaning guide, it's for a Mondeo with a front mounted EGR but the same principle's apply.

http://www.fordwiki.co.uk/index.php/EGR_Valve_and_Inlet_Manifold_Clearout_TDCi

 

[Locky]

You need to do more than just spray it, here's a good cleaning guide, it's for a Mondeo with a front mounted EGR but the same principle's apply.

http://www.fordwiki.co.uk/index.php/EGR_Valve_and_Inlet_Manifold_Clearout_TDCi

How much crap comes from that EGR valve :/