EGR cooler alternative.

[barf]

I just put a metal plate and gasket at the firewall end. At the flex end, I made the mistake of welding the end of it. It started leaking from the flex shortly after so I had to take the flex off and weld again right at the EGR cooler body itself, then positioned the flex part back into place.

   

This weld was done a few years ago. I recently had the coolant pressurizing, so I pulled the turbo and inspected this weld, and took this picture. I would have liked to see that the weld failed, unfortunately something else more major has happened.