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Old 03-05-2012, 04:33 PM   #6
Searles Lewis
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Originally Posted by catvents View Post
THe following link is included to the third subject of the Windstar forum
Code P171/174 update.....

It is a "bible" for whom who want to fix these code and ALSO the EGR port buildup cleaning. ( it is dry carbon that you have to remove (scratch out) without using any cleaning stuff. THe pictures on this link show you some big plans to clean that. Almost everybody here on this forum has followed this important informations for how to fix that EGR ports problems.
JUst follow these clear instructions

http://leckemby.net/windstar/windstar01.html
They are as clean as I can get them. The gunk I could get, multiple scrapings with a little mineral spirits added, and then scraped out again, and the mineral spirits soaked towel used to wipe and scritch as much as I could off of the little scooped brass it sat in. It is no longer totally black, just some gray spots and brass color now.

Is that good enough?
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