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Posted by JEM (more from JEM) on Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:42:39 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Midlife retrofit continues, bstan, Mon, 31 Jan 2005 23:13:48
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I'll try. I'm digital-camera-challenged right now, will have to borrow from the brother-in-law.

Most Fords of late-80s-to-late-90s vintage use the same 3-wire O2 sensor that has about a nine-inch pigtail on the sensor terminating in a barrel-shaped connector with three pins in it about 5/8" diameter. At the parts store ask for an O2 sensor for a '90 Mustang 5-liter V8 (it takes two, you only need one.)

If you go junkyard-diving under pretty much any Taurus, Fox or SN95 Mustang, Tempo, etc. you should be able to come away with the connector that attaches to the O2 sensor and about a foot of the wire attached to it.

I removed the Saab O2 sensor and removed the wire and its clips from its curious original location along the front cover of the engine, cut off the O2 sensor and spliced the Ford connector (with about a foot of the Ford wire) to it, put it all in some 3/8" black plastic split-sleeve, then laid it out along the right front fender following the AC lines, then down behind the expansion-tank and out behind the oil cooler. Since my car (now) has a JT downpipe and the O2 sensor sticks out forward instead of to the right, your routing may need to be slightly different.

Critical point: there are two white wires and a black wire coming off the sensor. To determine which white wire goes to which, you need to make sure to keep an eye on the position in which the wires come out of the sensor and get the new ones the same as the old. Get it backward and the sensor will drive the engine full-rich and it will idle like crap and soot the plugs. Ask me how I know. Fortunately, I'd added a bung for a wideband O2 sensor and I had the thing hooked up, so it was really obvious I'd gotten something wrong when the wideband was showing me 10:1 at idle and the CHECK ENGINE annunciator came on. Fortunately, those Ford connectors are very easy to take apart and move the pins around, too...

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