Another EGR cooler hose trick??

DamageINC · November 27, 2007

Don't know why I've never thought of this before, but today I was doing an EGR cooler hose (for a whopping 1.0 now) and ran into the usual situation where the piece that the hose attaches to on the oil cooler, simply wouldn't slide around and off the o-ring that it seats on.

After screwing with it and getting nowhere for like seriously 10 minutes, I figured I'd see what was in my toolbox to maybe make life easier...

...and wow, this sure did. Anyone here have that small/miniature slide-hammer kit from Snap-On? Well I just learned that the small single-hook attachment for the end of the slide hammer just fits really nicely beneath the oil-cooler end that the EGR cooler hose attaches to. It really seems to hook good near the area where the torx bolt farthest from the turbo goes.

Seriously popped the thing loose and had it in my hands in a matter of seconds.

I'll have to try it to a few more to make sure that it wasn't a fluke thing, but that thing seriously came right off once I got the hook underneath it. Didn't have to cut the EGR cooler hose or anything.

Maybe you've all figured this out by now but it's definitely new to me, hehe.

Dave

Aaron · November 28, 2007

Make sure this gets onto the Ford forums! /forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/laugh.gif

Tony302600 · November 28, 2007

Dave i'll show you one day how to do it. LoL, and then i'll show you my secret tool for the 04-07 oil supply bolts on passenger side

DamageINC · November 29, 2007

Oh yeah, I already "custom made" an extra-stubby T-30 bit with a cheap ATD 1/4" T-30 socket. Just pounded the actual star-end bit out of the housing and ground the back side down to about half it's original size. Popped the bit back in the housing and it just slides right past everything. Works great for getting that oil cooler fitting bolt closest to the turbo out, too.

Dave