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• Re: O2 Sensors
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:06:30 -0500
  ...The major variables in commercial automotive O2 sensors are the physical mounting, the connector, and conceivably the characteristics of the heater. The actual sensor...
• My O2 sensor is NOT faulty..(follow-up to a question yesterday)
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Tue, 9 Sep 2014 07:22:49 -0700
  I asked about O2 sensor function and the braided protective sleeve that surrounds the emerging wires from the top of most O2 sensors. I...
• Re: O2-sensor results with digital voltmenter
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:24:44 -0500
  ...lead connected to lead from O2-sensor, -lead on bumper. >Engine not run for three hours and O2-sensor not connected to lead to...
• Re: Questions
  Historical mailing list - TBill
  Wed, 29 Oct 1997 23:13:52 -0800
  ...Viciously slash wire leading to the O2 sensor. Step 4: Drive off happy, knowing you are now getting 18 mpg again. TBill ***ALWAYS suspect...
• Re: Tii Trading Co. 2.0 South African conversion kit
  Historical mailing list - se7en
  Sat, 5 Feb 2000 22:40:58 -0800
  Dave Bayer wrote: > > > > No O2 sensor??? Really? That's really strange! > > > > That's what I understand. We'll see when it gets here. Apparently...
• O2 sensor installed and front speaker tip...
  Historical mailing list - Don & Christina Preston
  Mon, 8 Apr 2002 20:28:59 -0700
  I installed my O2 sensor last night. Everything is working wonderfully. Thanks everyone for the feedback! With all the talk about front speaker upgrades...
• Re: 87 2.1 dies after 30 seconds
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 28 Feb 2015 00:59:19 -0500
  ...Grounds are clean Temp sensors and oil pressure sensors( new o2 sensor going in this weekend) entire ignition system is good (timing, coil, distributor...
• Fuel Injection tuning - wide band O2 sensors
  Historical mailing list - Dennis
  Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:04:06 -0400
  I've been contemplating the purchase of a wideband O2 sensor and data logger for use in tuning the injection on my van conversion...
• Re: 91 Carat has the highway hick ups
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 16 May 2010 11:41:52 -0400
  ...If either clears up the problem for a short while, O2 sensor > is > the issue. Note that the O2 sensors originally had a heat...
• Problem, New Rebuilt Engine, Running Rich, What's Wrong?
  Historical mailing list - Robert Stewart
  Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:24:22 -0400
  ...Could it be as simple as I need a new O2 Sensor? if so should I get the splice in kind or the whole...
• Re: Loss of Power after carwash
  Historical mailing list - Michael Sullivan
  Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:48:42 -0500
  ...I unhooked the green wire from the o2 sensor, no change. Unhooked the harness from the o2 sensor and still no change. Will pull...
• Re: O2 sensor shield and grill clips
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 20 Jan 2005 17:04:27 -0500
  ...O2 sensor shield and grill clips > So who carries this 034-906-274 shield/deflector? For that > matter, I am looking for the lower...
• Re: O2 Sensor Questions
  Historical mailing list - Timothy Crooks
  Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:42:30 -0400
  ...Ron advertises O2 sensors to replace mine that "require splicing". > What's meant by this? The archives seem full of stories of spliced O2...
• Re: new O2 installed - engine dies
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Sat, 27 Jun 1998 16:52:39 -0700
  ...be observing the fluctuation around .5 volts with a hot, disconnected O2 sensor. On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Darrell Boehler wrote: > [snip] > After 1...
• Re: 84 GL Exhaust System
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 4 May 1996 10:49:06 -0400
  ...hell you can get the O2 sensor >bung >ready to weld on from anyone selling the Haltech O2 sensor add on kits >for >maybe...
• Re: oxygen sensor problems
  Historical mailing list - Bill Davidson
  Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:53:14 -0800
  If you use and get any lead type anti-seize compound near or forward (upstream) of the o2 sensor, even a small amount will...
• Re: Generic O2 Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:37:56 -0700
  ...The Vanagon's O2 Sensor is mounted to the front end of the Catalytic convertor, a very hot location. Sincerely, Mark Keller 91 Carat...
• Re: O2 sensor question
  Historical mailing list - Joe Wagner
  Fri, 6 Jun 1997 23:47:12 -0400 (EDT)
  What does the compuuter do if you just disconnect the wire?
• O2 Sensor Replacment
  Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
  Fri, 25 May 2001 13:51:53 -0800
  Mark, The Bentley, says 60,000, Bosch says 60,000. Mark Keller
• Re: How to remove O2 sensor
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 1 Oct 2015 16:40:39 -0400
  ...O2 sensor. > > Z > > > > On Thursday, October 1, 2015 10:37 AM, Dennis Jowell <dennisjowell@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > > > I just started to replace my O2...
• Re: Post-waterpump replacement - wires and noises
  Historical mailing list - C B
  Fri, 25 May 2007 12:02:22 -0700
  ...Attached the black wire from the sensor. The O2 sensor light went out, there's less idle-seeking, and the exhaust smells much lighter...
• Re(2): Re(2): Re(2): Rough running when Hot
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 8 Jan 1997 11:02:00 -0500
  Eric, I think you are right about the O2 sensor, and the connection to the coolant temp sensor. I am going to check these...
• Re: [T2] Air-cooled Federal EGR filter and SMOG
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Fri, 4 May 2007 22:48:35 -0600
  > I also welded a bung into the exhaust of my 1982 air cooled Federal Westy. > I installed one the of the Bosch O2 sensors...
• On going Oxygen sensor issues...
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:53:55 -0700
  Recently, the O2 sensor on my Digifant inline VW ABA motor stopped functioning. I un-plugged it and confirmed it was in-operative, drove...
• Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
  Historical mailing list - James
  Tue, 29 Jul 2014 22:45:55 -0400
  ...O2 sensors brand quality difference? > > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > > > > The Vanagon operates the O2 sensor heater continuously. Since it is so far > away...
• Re: occasional hesitation
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sat, 23 Dec 2017 12:43:43 -0500
  > > I'm a bit suspicious of the O2 sensor, is there an easy way to confirm if > it's OK? What does ECU do...
• Re: Hesitation on 87 Vanagon O2 sensor? reply
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Fri, 7 Aug 1998 04:26:29 EDT
  ...Keep in mind that the ECU isn't looking at your O2 sensor voltage until the engine reaches a certain tempurature. Per temp sensor...
• Re: Looking for a Bentley Service manual
  Historical mailing list - Tonya Pope
  Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:00:57 -0800
  Randy--CHANGE MECHANICS The O2 sensor has little effect UNTIL the engine's warm. Get it changed and change your mechanic while you're...
• Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
  Historical mailing list - Neil N
  Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:01:46 -0700
  ...my Digifant Haynes is buried in a box, somewhere. ;) Does your version of Digifant use a Heated O2 Sensor (HO2S) relay or "module" ? Looking...
• O2 sensor outlet in new CAT, size?
  Historical mailing list - BJ Feddish
  Tue, 26 Jun 2007 15:22:50 -0400
  ...So I investigated farther and discovered the hole for the O2 sensor in the CAT. I must not have been paying attention as this...
• Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
  Historical mailing list - John Goubeaux
  Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:51:39 -0700
  ...failing O2 sensor in my inline VW > motored van and I wanted to see what the List take is on O2 sensors. > There is...
• Re: FW: Michael the VW Dealer
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 02:26:21 EDT
  ...factory fuel injection kit doesn't have a O2 sensor in it's system. But before the CAT there's a O2 sensor screwed...
• Re: Power loss when engine wet and cold
  Historical mailing list - Daniel L. Katz
  Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:47:51 -0400
  the o2 sensor itself IS vulnerable to water and other contaminants, such as silcon compounds, and that is why they are shielded where they...
• Re: digital gauges
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Wed, 24 Sep 2003 17:57:07 -0400
  I still have a few O2 sensor monitor gauges left. Twenty bucks plus two for shipping. The display is a ten LED bar graph...
• Re: More rant on grounds and vanagon syndrome
  Historical mailing list - Madsen, Ken
  Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:09:23 -0600
  ...this 0.3 volts introduced by grounding errors is subtracted from > the 0.5 > volts that the O2 sensor puts out, and suddenly the...
• New O2 sensor - hesitation when cold
  Historical mailing list - Brian Atkins
  Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:17:29 -0500
  Just replaced my O2 sensor last night. This morning (and at lunch time and time to go home), when I first fire 'er up...
• Re: Measuring oxygen sensor output...bad air flow meter?
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sat, 21 Sep 2002 23:42:11 -0500
  ...Then, the O2 sensor will read a positive voltage one second, a negative voltage the next second. If you had it hooked to an...
• Re: OHM Readings . . . . . . o2 sensor
  Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
  Sun, 17 Feb 2002 11:09:29 EST
  ...the o2 sensor? >> I am wondering the same thing for the 2.1L heated OXS. I have a VW sensor with unknown miles of...
• O2 Sensor Wire
  Historical mailing list - Chuck Mathis
  Thu, 13 Jan 2005 08:16:16 -0600
  Anybody got the VW part number for the shielded green wire for a 1.9L Digijet O2 sensor? Lately I've been getting some...
• Re: Question about testing O2 sensor with digital meter
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:40:42 -0500
  ...9/26/2008, Jim Felder wrote: >> >> When I test this second O2 sensor, I hook up my digital meter (set to >> 2v) and it...
• Re: fwd: Re: Re.: Hot Start Phase II
  Historical mailing list
  Fri, 19 Aug 94 15:29:36 EDT
  ...a) will I have to reset the fuel mixture given the new sensor or will the O2 sensor automatically compensate? and b) the hot...
• Re: My poor MPG, O2 sensor seems okay
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:24:01 -0700
  I just put an O'scope on the O2 sensor wire of my recently acquired 87. At first it sat around .4-.5 volts...
• Re: O2 sensor voltage?
  Historical mailing list - Larry LALOFS Joan Alofs
  Wed, 13 Feb 2002 20:48:21 -0600
  ...F. > > Do I need a new O2 sensor? > > John Lauterbach > Macon, GA > '84 7-passenger > If the ECU was not connected to the sensor...
• Re: GOWESTY AFM no start problem
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
  Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:21:56 -0400
  ...Decided to install the new reconditioned > GOWESTY AFM today. > I disconnected the O2 sensor then installed the AFM started the engine with > the O2...
• Re: Another O2 sensor querry -- heater element elementals
  Historical mailing list - Marshall
  Mon, 10 Jun 2002 18:01:27 -0500
  ...By that time, the unheated O2 sensor would have been warmed up - so it's pointless to heat the sensor - it'd just be...
• O2 censor hookup question.
  Historical mailing list - S. Marie Arnold
  Tue, 10 Jul 2001 08:46:45 EDT
  ...Anyway, I am just now getting around to putting the o2 sensor in (along with new belts and a new thermo.) What wires go...
• Re: Intermittent engine miss- update
  Historical mailing list - Mike Miller
  Mon, 5 Jun 2006 13:23:45 -0700
  ...Picked up a new O2 sensor so when/if it starts missing again I�ll pull the wire and if that cures it I...
• passed smog, O2 tool
  Historical mailing list - Mark Drillock
  Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:23:44 -0800
  ...It showed that my O2 sensor was sluggish and so I replaced it with a Bosch generic single wire. This improved the readings greatly...
• Re: I guess it wasnt that darned 02 sensor...
  Historical mailing list - David Devere
  Fri, 23 Aug 2002 17:15:14 -0500
  Well, It's not your O2 sensor. Go to Ben's website @ www3.sympatico.ca/huotx/engine1.htm and read the test for the...
• Euro-Drive: FIX 89 Volkswagen vanagon, Emissions/Poor-idle
  Historical mailing list - "David Hagen (by way of Derek Drew )"
  Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:36:28 -0400
  ...O2 waveforms look good then everything dives ! O2 now is biased negative. When looking at sensor ground waveforms and B Alternator waveform, a long...
• Re: your mail
  Historical mailing list - John Connolly, Aircooled.Net
  Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:17:57 -0700
  biggest suspects are bad O2 sensor, and clogged Cat. john Aircooled.Net Inc.
• Re: Fw: Re: O2 Sensor Idea (long)
  Historical mailing list - Marion Lathem
  Fri, 8 Sep 2006 20:52:07 -0500
  Darrell, Thank you, I sure will study it....! Lyle
• Re: Vanagon syndrome...it sucks!
  Historical mailing list - Jason Ellis
  Mon, 21 Mar 2016 16:02:16 +0000
  ...as suggested the O2 sensor, the temp2 sensor, the throttle body switch all can give the syndrome... as for the AFM the things to...
• Re: Voltage/mixture sensor, testing O2 sensor
  Historical mailing list
  Sat, 3 Feb 2001 23:14:54 -0700
  ...I take it that the LED's read out the incremental > voltage, which they receive via the O2 Sensor? I am building a Hiperformance...
• Re: Generic O2 Sensors - What is the real deal?
  Historical mailing list - Todd Last
  Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:44:05 +0000
  Though I have not seen any empirical evidence to support it, I would think that the only difference in an O2 sensor would be...
• Re: Washed van run bad....SOLVED
  Historical mailing list - Gregor Brandt
  Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:22:18 -0600
  ...Along with a few others he correctly diagnosed water in the O2 sensor. I took his advise with the high temp silicon (sortof a...
• Re: Question about temp II sensor and bad running
  Historical mailing list - Jim Felder
  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:31:17 -0500
  ...Anyway, somebody may clear me to go buy an O2 sensor any minute now. I looked and I don't have my old (suspected...
• Re: how do I get O2 sensor out?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 24 Jul 1996 19:32:08 -0400
  ...I don't have the procedure handy, but a while back someone sent a O2 sensor diagnostics procedure to the list. You could find...
• Oxygen Sensors
  Historical mailing list - Craig Rogers
  Thu, 3 Jul 1997 14:18:25 -0400
  I'm wondering if there is a way to check an O2 sensor to see if it is operating properly. It seems as though...
• Re: running too rich
  Historical mailing list - Pat Callaghan
  Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:13:38 -0700
  Running rich could damage your catalytic converter & o2 sensor. The O2 sensor is cheap, about $35, the cat is about $100. Pat Callaghan 87...