[Shotimes] gas mileage issues

[Hartberger, Jason M. ATAN]

-----Original Message-----
From: George Fourchy [mailto:krazgeo@jps.net]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:45 AM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] gas mileage issues


On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:10:28 -0600, Paul L Fisher wrote:

>> They ain't cheap and they'll throw a code if they are bad.

>No they won't.  Not if they are just flat worn out and cannot adjust from
reading
>rich to lean to rich as fast as the mixture changes when you punch it, then
let all
>the way off, then punch it again.  That is what happens, on a smaller
scale, when
>you drive in city traffic.  If they can't keep track of the mixture
changes, they
>will continue to read lean, and send too much fuel through the injectors.
That
>happened to the Lowrider after its factory sensors made it up to about 225K
miles. 
>No light.  That car NEVER flashes the CE light, except when the key is on
and the
>engine is off.  I swapped the sensors with ones that came with the SS
Y-pipe buy,
>and it went back up to 30 mpg and 500 mile tanks on trips.
>
>Then it got HIT!

sucky.

>
>George
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