foreveraudio

so I have a 88 l98 with afr heads - no air pump - cam - no ac compressor, and heres my question

I wanted to get rid of the egr recur tube that has to be removed everytime you wanna take off the pass side valve cover -

iv heard mixed things - when I took this tube off last the sensor was screwed into it, but the tube looked like it had weld marks on it and didn't seem to serve a purpose like it was just there to hold the sensor - I took a chance and removed it and sealed off both ends where the tube went on the intake manifold and the exaust manifold ( yes no headers yet ) this was also a reason I want to get headers without the check valves

I left the sensor still wired in just zip tied it in the back near firewall

I have no check engine light on and its been a week -

is there anything or any symptoms I would notice by not having this tube installed

iv noticed a few weird things not sure if related , like first start and drive I may get some hesitation and a backfire slightly then runs fine rest of day

other then that would the loss of this tube result in any weird things I need to be looking for

thanks


also does anyone have a place I can seek in getting the plug wire brackets for the heads so I can run my plug wires nice and neat -

thanks all

foreveraudio

Anyone ??

Cliff Harris

The sensor on the pipe is a temperature switch. It closes when hot exhaust gases flow through the pipe. The ECM turns on the EGR valve by turning on the EGR solenoid. It then looks at the temperature switch to see if it closes. If it doesn't close the ECM sets error code 32. This test is done while cruising so you only see it if you drive for 5 minutes or more.

foreveraudio

ok but I have no check engine light on and iv driven it so I assume that's good, but will it cause any noticeable issues backfires or any running problems if its not throwing a code