Taking intake manafold off 88 carbed Festiva

[Tom]

Remove throttle linkage and then all the hoses and electrical connections and then remove the four bottom bolts and then the four top bolts on the manifold and the whole thing is in my hands, does this sound right, I'm going to switch the whole thing from one car to another and it's 5 degrees here. I'm going to try and make the old gasket work.

Is there anything I am missing?

Is this as simple as it sounds?

[25Horseplay]

I wouldn't reuse the gasket. More than likely you will do the job twice!

[Guest]

I wouldn't reuse the gasket. More than likely you will do the job twice!

been there.. :evil:

[mechanicaldj]

did you forget the EGR tube?????

[Tom]

What is the EGR tube.

[mechanicaldj]

sorry my bad

its built in to the intake

on the passenger side

[Tom]

What kind of problems does this cause.

[Tom]

If that's the one I'm thinking it is, the short one about six inches long that runs from the manifold to the carburetor or something. The one that always gets in your way and is rubbed up against and pushed pretty hard when you are trying to take off the oil filter, the one whose clamps cut into your forearm when you are reaching in and loosening the oil filter and then when you are putting the new filter on, if it's that one, usually a kind of reddish fairly stiff hose in a "c" position above the alternator, if it is then the one on my old festive was broken and off for ever and it didn't matter, but maybe if it is plugged it matters or something I'm missing.

I finally just left it off and dangling there on my old festiva also an 88 carbed because it seems not to make any difference, I wish that hose was the problem I'm having now. If the old one breathed and this one doesn't that could be the proble. Thanks

[FestYboy]

the egr tube is built into the head and intake manifold, there's nothing externaly to go wrong, but if the passage is cloged, it MAY triger a SES light but it won't hinder the normal opperation of the engine. if for some reason the gasket between the head and intake is rotted away around the EGR passage, you "could" be drawing in extra air (going lean) when in a cruise situation. OR, the EGR pintle could be lifted off it's seat and alowing exhaust into the intake when the ECU isn't asking for it.

NOTE: the EGR only opperates in a steady cruise situation, and only after the engine has gone into closed loop mode. it isn't in opperation under any other driving conditoins.

[Tom]

Ok, so good or bad it isn't the cause of my current problem, Thanks