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Update: Cleaned my stepson's EGR about 6 months ago (thread #806). About couple of weeks ago, he came home with the car having hard time starting and rough idling. I didn't think it was the EGR since hard starting was not involved. Autozone code reader said: 1st time: Idle control system RPM...

I'm in the process of doing that right now. It's pretty straight forward. 1) Remove the rubber hose 2) Umplug the connector 3) Here's the hard part if you don't have the correct tool. Remove the 4 screws. Screwdriver won't work, you'll just strip the screws. See my post above about what to do...

Update For those of you that having a hard time removing those 4 screws. Go to Harborfreight Tools and get one of these. The nice thing about this one is that it uses regular bit, not the other that uses the bigger bit which is impossible to find. Why do you want this? Because in case you have...

Updated: Well, I did the cleaning on my stepson's 01 ES, and it has been almost a month now. He has reported that the car is running smooth, and the check engine light hasn't come back so you can count me in as successful one!!

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My 2 cents First, want to thank Vega for pointing us in the right direction. Just finished cleaning the EGR valve. It's my stepson's car so he'll have to let me know later how it's running, but the first impression from him is that it is running smoother. Few pointers though: 1) Yes, do remove...