Hey all, new to the forum and the dodge ram family. Just picked up my first truck, a '95 5.9l ram for a very good price. Not the cummins I wanted but it'll do it's mostly stock but I just bought some shorty headers and have a question on the install. On the factory passenger side manifold, I noticed an egr line routed into it, but there's no place for it on my new header. My question is: can I just saws-all the egr tube and thread-lock a bolt into it? If there's a better way to approach it, feel free to chime in.

Also, is my ram ineligible for a tuner chip? That would really bite if I missed the curve by a year...

Thanks in advance for the help!

 

if you have room I would just make a plate

B&g flash for the computer

 

mine is also a 95, for the egr, i just made a plate and bolted it to the tube instead of removing it or chopping it up, i used to get a CEL every great once in awhile, but not anymore....... as far as chips, yeah, you kinda missed it, theres a JET chip, but peeps say they suck bad, theres B&G flash, havent heard much about them and then theres mopar performance pcm.......no tuners available like with OBDII

 

thanks for the response guys. Yea, I heard the same thing about the JET, havent heard about the B&G so Ill look into it. Ideally, Id like to just delete the egr but it looks like it'd be a PITA with engine in chassis. Anybody have any first-hand experience with that?

 

yea you need that line connected to something, i cut mine when i did the plenum gasket, and when i started it, MAJOR exhust leak. cemented her up, sounds perfect now. So you need to get that pipe covered, and in there someway like stated above

 

leave all vac and elec lines hooked up