i got a 96 contour V-6, 2.5 L engine.. i took the car to an auto parts place and they put a code scanner because the check engine light came on....
and stayed on... it came up with the code for the egr valve.. i got the ford CD but it only shows more info on the 2.0 L four cyl. engine...
on the 4 cyl. engine it gives you all the info on how to take it off and even tells you to use a 22 MM crow foot socket.. i got the socket set..the largest it goes up to is 22mm, but the V-6 engine the tube nut from the exhaust man. to the EGR valve is much bigger than 22 MM.... i cant get my hand in there at all to measure it or use an adjustable open end wrench to get to the nut....
also there is a pipe that comes out the EGR valve on the V-6 thats about 4 inches long-looks like a short piece of black iron pipe that goes into the
EGR valve and then the EGR tube is attached to this pipe with the nut on the EGR tube... did anyone ever take off the EGR valve on the contour
V-6 engine and if so how do you do it. i dont want to break the tube..seems kinda delicate.. the cd says to be carefull with the tube as it is not sold as a seperate part...comes with the exhaust manifold... when i got the results of the EGR valve coming up bad i then checked the cd and found out that you check it out by going to the EGR vacuum selenoid and make sure you got vacuum from there and voltage to the EGR vacuum selenoid from something else.. the last to check was the
EGR valve, put a vacuum pump(one of those $25 hand pumps-which i bought) and remove the voltage from the IAC valve and start it up and let it idle and then put 10 lbs. of vacuum on the EGR valve and the RPM's should drop 100 RPM's.. well the car would not stay running with the IAC valve disconnected from the voltage... so i guess the EGR valve is bad(pretty sure, or just dirty with sludge) and not closing all the way..the car runs good no problems now but would like to get this thing fixed.. any help will be appreciated
thanks in advance...
