I have a 2002 Odyssey and would like to know some common symptoms of a bad egr valve. Within the past couple weeks, the van lost the ability to pull mountain passes like it always used to. Before, it was no sweat to stay at 65-70 MPH and even more while not hitting 3K on the tach.
Now, it barely can hold 50 MPH at a steady pace. The couple times I have tried to accelerate where it would normally gear down and pull them, it gears down and the rpm's shoot up to 4,500 and the engine light flashes until I let off and it drops out of that gear.
It has gradually lost power under that strain over the last three trips and I am now getting a little hesitations/surging in town between 30-40 mph.
The plugs are good, as are the coil packs. The only other things I immediately would go to would be Fuel Filter/Pump or possibly the catalytic converter.
It idles fine, starts fine and is smooth if I take it up in rpms when in park. Mainly the symptoms are under moderate to high strain like pulling or trying to pass and calling for power.
Lastly, for what it's worth, back in May, I did the get the EGR code, but had it reset at the parts store as it was running fine and all the plugs were good, even though it was giving misfire coeds, as well.
I bought is with 208,000 miles last September and it has performed beautifully since then and now has 235,000.
Any experience with this would be appreciated. I don't have money to put diagnostic machines on it or waste my time at a Honda Dealership, so I plan on replacing the valve tomorrow to see if that does the trick.
Thanks all!
Now, it barely can hold 50 MPH at a steady pace. The couple times I have tried to accelerate where it would normally gear down and pull them, it gears down and the rpm's shoot up to 4,500 and the engine light flashes until I let off and it drops out of that gear.
It has gradually lost power under that strain over the last three trips and I am now getting a little hesitations/surging in town between 30-40 mph.
The plugs are good, as are the coil packs. The only other things I immediately would go to would be Fuel Filter/Pump or possibly the catalytic converter.
It idles fine, starts fine and is smooth if I take it up in rpms when in park. Mainly the symptoms are under moderate to high strain like pulling or trying to pass and calling for power.
Lastly, for what it's worth, back in May, I did the get the EGR code, but had it reset at the parts store as it was running fine and all the plugs were good, even though it was giving misfire coeds, as well.
I bought is with 208,000 miles last September and it has performed beautifully since then and now has 235,000.
Any experience with this would be appreciated. I don't have money to put diagnostic machines on it or waste my time at a Honda Dealership, so I plan on replacing the valve tomorrow to see if that does the trick.
Thanks all!