EGR Valve removal?

[KalamazooJohnny]

I took out my EGR valve and bought a plug to put there instead. When I took it out, engine coolant ran out all over. Is that hole suppose to be full of coolant?

[lanciahf]

What year spider?

[KalamazooJohnny]

77 spider 1800 with carb.

[Glasair180]

Which holes did you plug? (where did you get them?) I have a '77 and have been searching for plugs for the exhaust manifold and for the intake manifold but it is an odd metric size so I have had no luck yet. I have removed them to measure the threads and there was no coolant. I don't see how there would be.

[So Cal Mark]

the egr can't have coolant unless you removed the thermovalve in the intake manifold. That is a water jacket, hence the "thermo" part of the name

[KalamazooJohnny]

Yeah, my terminology is off I guess. I took the thing with the 2 tubes out. It sits on the center of the intake manifold between the carb and the engine. It is a metric 18 x 1.5 thread I think. I bought the plugs at Advance Auto. They are oil plugs. So Mark, am I not suppose to remove the thermovalve and plug it? There is suppose to be coolant under there? The thread did not look like a tapered pipe thread, so I put a little gasket seal on the threads when I plugged it. Am I doing something wrong by removing that thermovalve?

[majicwrench]

There is supposed to be coolant under it. Plugging it fine, sealer is fine, if you live somewhere that does not check such things.
Keith