Oily EGR valve

[davehills]

OK, so cleaned it all out using carb cleaner and repaired a small crack in one of the small vacuum hoses and will check again in a month or so.

I'm also interested in this concept of a "catch pot". Is it the crankcase breather that ends up in the catch pot? If so, do I blank off the hole that will be left on the EGR valve?

Disabling the EGR valve...wouldn't this effect emiss emissions and thus fail the MOT? Which vac hoses to the EGR do I block (If memory serves there's more than one)

Yes, the box on the air intake is the resonator, have managed to work that much out.