egr operation.....

[IndianaVX]

ok, another egr question. when i cleaned the egr last time, it was all clean.....bear with my description....the "piston" that is attached to the phillips headed rod moves freely up and down. if you look in there, there is a approx 3/4 cylinder that the rod moves up and down in. NOW, DOES THAT 3/4 CYLINDER MOVE UP AND DOWN TOO? or is that cylinder part of the casting. i was thinking the first time i cleaned the egr, it moved up and down too, and was nice and shiney, or did someone spike my ciggarette?? does my question make sense? i hope so cause its been a couple of weeks, and wondering about it has bugged me every day since. so question again, does the big cylinder move up and down, or just the phillips capped rod.

Thanks buds!!
david

[Thejerseyfish]

I just did a thread on most of what your looking for a few weeks back, heres the link, http://www.vehicross.info/forums/showthread.php?t=10549. I found some other pages I think they were from a Rodeo help page, but either way, the EGR in the pics is almost identical to ours. In the one post they talk about cutting it open to fix it, and the other they talk cleaning it out. They recommended using a highlighter maker to pug up the big hole since the highlighter is fatter at one end you can jam it in there without it falling down the tube and should stay. The weathers been real sh*tty here so I haven't had a chance to clean it again using this method, but just check out the thread and the links and they should help with what you are looking for. If the links don't work lemme know and I'll try to find them again.