Winter Pack Valve Stuck On - Help!

[Tizzle]

Hi all,

I stupidly 'tested' the winter pack valve - now it's stuck on! Running like a bag of spanners and averaging 16mpg
I need to know how to turn it off / disable it - but I'm clueless. The switch now doesn't work.

Any advice would be very gratefully recieved.

Thanks

[corrour]

Do a search for EGR blanking plate Allans Vehicle Services do them easy to fit and no more Gunk in Inlet Manifold

hope this helps

corrour

[missfixit70]

Do a search for EGR blanking plate Allens Vehicle Specialists do them easy to fit and no more Gunk in Inlet Manifold

hope this helps

corrour

Egr is NOT the cold start/winter pack valve - completely different gubbins
Egr redirects some of the exhuast gas from the turbo back into the inlet manifold, operates automatically, fitted to all diesel bongos.
Winter pack valve shuts a valve in the exhaust, helping the engine warm up quicker in cold climates, operated by a switch by your right knee on the dash with a picture of an engine on, only fitted to Bongos from the North of Japan subjected to extreme cold, in cojunction with twin starting batteries.

[scanner]

EGR is nothing to do with the winter pack as such, other than they are both associated with the exhaust.

I think the winter pack valve is in the front part of the exhaust right after the manifold joint - see if there is any sort of operating arm you can get a grip on and free it off.

[missfixit70]

Not sure if this helps at all http://www.lushprojects.com/bongopartsm ... mgno=.html - looks like a bit of the spindle should be accesible, may be able to get a spanner/mole grip/pipe wrench on it? Maybe while someone operates the switch - just watch it doesn't rotate the wrong way & crush your fingers
Once it's opened Disconnect the switch

[missfixit70]

Great minds Scanner

[corrour]

i am sorry to give you wrong info but i had similar problem and i cured mine

I STAND CORRECTED BY MY BETTERS AND ELDERS

[Bongo.Baz.tard]

Well done missfixxit70 thats exactly what i was looking to remove on the other post you replied to this is very handy thanks.

[missfixit70]

http://www.lushprojects.com/bongopartsm ... mgno=.html might help too

[Bongo.Baz.tard]

Sorry about highjackin' this post but,
once again missfixxit70 thanks ive been looking for something like this all day.
bet you've got a sonic screwdriver just like Dr Who
Do you do time travel aswell
SERIOUSLY THO THANKS FOR TAKIN THE TIME.

[daveblueozzie]

WHO is that mystery girl they call Missfixit ?
She can fix a spaceship ive been told.
DR WHO learned all his stuff from Kirsty i bet.
The bongo is no mystery to Missfixit.
Just the girl behind the spanner and a hammer is the mystery.

[missfixit70]

Sorry about highjackin' this post but,
once again missfixxit70 thanks ive been looking for something like this all day.
bet you've got a sonic screwdriver just like Dr Who
Do you do time travel aswell
SERIOUSLY THO THANKS FOR TAKIN THE TIME.

Who? Taught him everything he knows - only he doesn't know it yet cos it'll be 20 years in his future
It's all in http://www.lushprojects.com, just got to dig around a bit.

[Tizzle]

Thank you!