>Tom Young wrote:
>However, I don't agree with some of the things you said about the EGR system:

I'm with Tom on this.  When I was keeping my '81 EGR system
going, I never had the EGR pipe in the engine compartment too
hot to hold.  I could feel it go from cool to warm when the
engine was held at mid-rpm, but never hot.

Then about rebuild time the EGR "filter" rusted out.  Standard
advice here in Boulder was to just seal it off and abandon
the EGR system.  This was done on mine by pinching the tube
just below the EGR filter.  That was 3+ years ago.  My bus
still passes emissions, with no EGR and an empty cat.

                                Richard A. Jones
                                Boulder, Colorado
                                '81 Vanagon, Mr Bus