[Shotimes] O2 sensor testing

James White greensho@crown.net
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 21:40:35 -0500


I agree with Kevin.

I have an A/F meter and I could see that the O2 output was starting to jump
all over the place and these were only about 50k old.

Besides new ones are less than $40/ea at AutoZone.  And you can "rent" their
O2 socket for free.

regards, Jim White - greensho@crown.net
Valparaiso, Indiana
'93  5 SPEED   279k few mods
'95  5 SPEED   249k lots of mods
"double clutch"  it's good for both you and your SHO

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin & Cheryl Airth" <clubairth@peoplepc.com>
To: <james@dhlake.com>; <shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] O2 sensor testing


> James:
>  EVERY bad O2 sensor I have tested on the bench has passed! I don't know
why
> but I screwed around with this for several months and finally just put in
> the new ones and my codes went away. I think the true failure mode is
> normally a slow degradation and not the nice catastrophic failure that is
so
> easy to verify and fix!
> .
> .
>
>
>
> > I pulled the front O2 sensor and it passes the test on the web-site,
> > I guess I will put everything back together, tighten up all the clamps
on
> > the intake and look for intake leaks.
> >
> > James
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