Breather pipes

[rob123]

Can anybody make any sense of what the mechanic has done at the stealers,below the EGR you can see a u shape pipe and below that a box with pipes that have been cut.I know that there used to be pipes coming from the box up to where the u shape is.hope I,m making sense,

[deg]

is that a piece of twig jammed in below the valve????????

[rob123]

Yeah the clip is a bit loose in the EGR valve,afraid of it slipping off

[rob123]

is that a piece of twig jammed in below the valve????????

I thought I was gonna get a bit of help when you showed interest.

[bigmac]

Best thing for some one to do is take a picture of their engine bay around the same area as your's then compare,so if anyone wants to brave the weather and take a picture

I take it yours is a 19 CDTI SRI

[Thunder]

i've found these pictures on the forum Vectra CDTi Posted by keithsimmo






Thread is here click me

hope it helps

[rob123]

Thanks for the help lads,the car is a 19 cdti...I got some work done a while back and at the time had noticed a pipe of at the back of the Manifold,I know there was two pipes leading up from the breather tank (I think its called),so I brought it over to the stealers and pointed this out and he said yeah that would have gave the same code as the EGR valve,so this is the way they left it,there could be no harm done but they seem to be bypassing the breather tank completly why ???..cheers

[rob123]

I was reading on another thread about two pipes being changed on the vacuum box leading to the actuator,is this a vacuum box I was trying to find info about,anybody any recent pics of this same area,are does any one know why this was done.cheers

[winnie2457]

Hi the vacuum box is at the front right of the engine bay on your front bumper look at the sticky thread at top of this section shows vacuum pipes and box

the thick rubber pipes next to
your egr are the oil breather pipes from your crank case and cam shad breather that goes into your oil seperator which is the black round container with about 4 pipes going into at the back left of your engine
and you can vent your breather system to atmosphere with
no probs and no fault codes look at my thread in here for diy oil catch tank for pics

That u bend pipe I have no
idea of sorry


Hope this helps

[the-wizard]

[quote=rob123;1124056]Can anybody make any sense of what the mechanic has done at the stealers,below the EGR you can see a u shape pipe and below that a box with pipes that have been cut.I know that there used to be pipes coming from the box up to where the u shape is.hope I,m making sense,[/quot

you are talking about the vacum box just below the 'u' pipe shown in the pic!, the pipes go to a valve mounted on the right by the radiator, dont know why they have done this ?.