Did I damage EGR cooler while cleaning?

Before you install it put some water to the water porch like tap it into the garden hose and barely fill then leave the hose crack just a little bit see if any comes out the porch that are in line which is the exhaust bending over a few of those tabs is not mission critical but if you damage the wall separating the gas and the coolant mix that's not going to be good so you want to make sure that before you install itl it

 

I'm not willing to make any hard claims, but I personally would put it back on my car since I highly doubt it'll affect anything. I assume it's just extra surface area for cooling so wouldn't matter if it's bent a little.

 

OMG... You're in top 10 terrritory of weirdest @tombuk2 ramble ever!

Are you saying to test for leaks? Is that your point?

 

If you bent fins then it is similar to a radiator or condenser being hit by pebbles/rocks in the front of the car. You're going to have to make a determination whether it's bad enough to replace or not...

CPH2551 ?

 

It's an intercooler It has a water jacket around it and EGR gas flows through it to be cooled and/or heated to whatever the water temperature is or try to make it that so when you go ramming something through there like incorrect rod sizes to rod out the radiator which is common in radiator shops. If you damage the water jacket or poke a hole in the portion where the EGR gas is flow through you want to know about it before you install it so you can bench test the water ports on the intercooler which is the silver piece you're working on If you ram something through there and you bend a bunch of stuff you might want to make sure you didn't put a hole It's just that simple.

 

Then you are watertight and good to go just like your radiator or the bottom of your inverter I'll need to be isolated from their respective systems. So no matter if you've bashed some of the things or the points inside of the little intercooler not going to hurt a thing long as you don't poke through.