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Re: O2 sensor replacement? Posted by RS [Email]  (#15)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from RS) on Thu, 23 Aug 2001 16:55:11
In Reply to: O2 sensor replacement?, Cliff K., Wed, 22 Aug 2001 22:55:26 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Let me add 34 cents of my own experience here.
I got a generic sensor from Sobstory, but one of the Ford sensors is just as good. Just make sure that it's a 3-wire Bosch O2 sensor.
Get the elbow off per Monster's fine narrative, soaking all of the nuts with PB Blaster or some such rust penetrant.
When you have it off, soak the sensor threads inside and out with the rust penetrant, put it in a plastic bag and soak it some more. Let it sit overnight.
Cut the wires off at the sensor, save them for reuse on the new generic sensor.
Get a thinwall 22 mm socket (it can be s short socket if you saw off the sheet metal end of the sensor) and a breaker bar - the longer the better. Put that Garden Weasel in the end of the elbow, step on it, put the socket on the sensor stub and turn that baby. It should start to turn.
THen get some good non-Radio-Shack heat shrink tubing, put it on the wires, butt-splice the conductors, and get ready to install the whole mess.
Before you install the sensor, thread the old sensor innto the elbow and reinstall the elbow. Reinstall the battery and run the car to burn off the rust penetrant that has collected in the elbow. Just to be sure that there's nothing in there that can harm the sensor ... after all this effort.
Then, minding the hot elbow, unthread the old sensor and install the new one.
It took a few minutes of hot running for my new sensor to work well enough so that the Check Engine light went out, ever since, it's worked well.
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