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my check engine light came on.. egr

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my check engine light came on.. egr

anyways i ran the code.. egr flow insufficient. where is this located on my 99? could i just clean it to fix it?
 
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the egr valve? is the truck running okay? mines back near the wipers its gotta rubber hose type thing h/o a sec and ill show you...



now to fix mine 4now all i did was unplug it and put somthing to seal it from dust etc. and then go to the ford place and order one i dont know the prices though...
 

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well i just bought the truck. it seems to be running fine
 
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and mines a 2.3L so it prolly gonna be in a diff. location....BUT IF ITS RUNNING FINE DONT BOTHER THEN go to a local ford shop
 
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There are three major components to the EGR system:

The EGR Valve itself
The EGR Vacuum Regulator Solenoid (EVR)
The Differential Pressure Feedback EGR sensor (DPFE)

Although there are other possibilities, the most common cause for that code is a bad DPFE. It looks something like this:

 
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thanks for hte help and info guys
 
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