For anyone who did this kit for the E4OD, did you take the plate off behind the valve bodies after you removed the valve bodies? Or are you only supposed to replace the springs and make the changes to the valve bodies only? My instructions are useless... After looking around online I beleive it is the 4R7OW that you have to mess with the little ***** and stuff but I need to make sure so I don't pull it off when it's not necessary...but the video on the E4OD kit doesn't show or say anything about it. It only has the guy replacing the springs in the valve bodies. But I don't trust the video, I think that it just doesn't show that part or something.

Here, got the valve bodies off, do I take this black plate off here:




Thanks

 

A complete E4OD rebuild is at dieselgarage.com - Color pictures!!

In "google Images" - search E4OD rebuild and you'l get the link.

 

Sweet, thanks a ton, I'm taking a thousand pictures so I can do a writeup on this for everyone else. Hey btw, F150PARTSGUY seems to have an EGR tube for cheaper than the factory if you still need one. And I have an extra one of the fittings with fords F-in thread that I can't seem to match. It's the fitting that goes between the tube and manifold. I got an extra at the junk yard in case you or anyone else needed it.

 

Hey does anyone know which direction the flat metal plate looking retainer clips face? I can't figure it out... Not the wire looking ones but the flattened metal ones.

 

I think I figured it out lol this is fun!

 

What R - Clips? Plunger Piston Cylinder clips ? on ACLTR body/valve body?

 

on the accumulator valve body, there are the wire kinda U shaped clips that retain the outermost piston/plunger and holds the inner piston and springs into place. You pop those out and then you have to take the flat metal clips out to get to the last little spring and metal piston thingy that are the farthest in. I'm pretty sure I have the clips facing the only logical way though.

Hey, lemme ask you this, took the plate off, and where it says to replace the spring and poppet valve...mine had a ball instead of the poppet valve. But it says to replace it with the furnished spring and new poppet valve anyway so...

Did yours originally have a poppet valve or a ball like mine?

 

Since our kits didn't come with replacement upper and lower valve body gaskets, did you even take yours off? Or just wipe that larger plate off and leave the gaskets on it? I'm kind of afraid to use brake/carburetor cleaner on it with the gaskets on there, won't that deteriorate the gasket?

Thanks again.

 

Hey, on the holes I'm about to drill into the plate, I don't care about the firmer shifts that it talks about getting with bigger holes. So should I just go with the smaller size it states for the V6? It says to also use the smaller V6 size holes when... "When using a custom LOW STALL converter, especially with Diesel make hole sizes same as 6 cyl."

 

I don't know what your talking about here or I don't recall any gasket problems. I cleaned what I had and re-used if new ones didn't come in the kit.

 

Popet valve/spring/steel ball. - If you lost the steel ball , better look for it.

 

lol, no I have the ball, but i installed the new poppet valve and spring in place of the old ball and spring that came off of it originally. It's ok that I replace the ball with the poppet valve?

 

I dunno , I don't rememeber exactly what I did there. I thought it was pretty straight forward - maybe you have a different kit.

I usually will remember a problem if I had one.

 

So what did you use to clean all the valve bodies and such with? I used brake fluid and carb cleaner, hope thats ok...lol too late now. when you had the plate and VBs out did you spray some up inside to clean it out a little before you put the ***** back in and the plate back on?

 

I just used a parts cleaner, you can get it in 5 gallon pales. I let them soak in a bath of it.