Hello I took off the intake manifold on my 95 se to replace the injector. After everything was done and I backed up the car there was a little metal type gasket with the round hold in the middle and one hole on each side for the bolts. Its definately a egr gasket of some type. On the rear of the manifold there were 2 bolts(support bolts) to the left and then there were 2 rear bolts(close to the tb) that held the egr (pick up tube?)..is there a gasket here that could have fell out? Thanks in advance.

 

You nailed it. The EGR tube to manifold gasket is exactly what you are missing.

 

I was afraid of that...geez looks like I have to take those bolts off and see if I can get it back in there.... What happens if I leave it out?? Thanks so much! Nel

 

Then you will possibly have a large vacuum leak.

Not necessarily, but possibly.

 

just re-do the job and get it in there.dont go experimenting w/o it

 

You don't need to redo the entire job, just removed the EGR pipe and clean off the gasket mating surfaces. This will give you a chance to clean out that EGR tube, which cloggs up all the time.

 

not the entire job ofcoarse.