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Re: GM P0401 ' EGR SYSTEM FLOW INSUFFICIENT' QUESTION
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 3/3/2007

A clean valve will take about 47% duty cycle to open and then a duty cycle of 43% or less to hold steady at a 10% pintle command.

Example of a bad valve:Valve commanded to 10% and duty cycle jumped to 60% for a moment and then steadied at 51%.

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