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• Re(2): Re(2): Rough running when Hot
  Historical mailing list
  Tue, 7 Jan 1997 14:44:38 -0500
  ...I am going to check out the O2 sensor, coolant sensor, vacuum lines, and air mass sensor first. I'll keep you posted, after...
• Re: van 'stutters' and runs rich
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:02:01 -0400
  ...Running rich is usually traced back to the o2 sensor system. Bad chassis connections at a few critical connections will drive the system crazy...
• Re: O2 Sensor Installed and CO adjustment problems (Sorry, Long)
  Historical mailing list - Warner, Jeff (DSIO-MS)
  Fri, 4 Oct 2002 12:21:51 -0400
  ...2> turn off engine and disconnect O2 sensor from ECU but leave monitor connected to sensor. 3>start engine and adjust AFM spring to...
• A Complaint w-South African Engine Conversion
  Historical mailing list - Michael Modl
  Fri, 12 May 2000 02:56:44 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: High Cost of O2 Sensor
  Historical mailing list - Jeff Stewart
  Thu, 22 May 2003 19:21:30 -0400
  I just replaced mine a couple of weeks ago with a generic Bosch sensor, part number 13913, cost - $42.60 including tax from my...
• Re: Weird stalling problem
  Historical mailing list - John Bange
  Wed, 24 May 2006 16:50:12 -0700
  ...I'm not sure where to begin looking for > solutions, please help. > > O2 sensor? Unplug the O2 sensor and see if it runs better...
• Re: Running rich floods
  Historical mailing list - Alfred Bagdan
  Sat, 10 Aug 2002 10:54:54 -0600
  ...First, I got a new O2 sensor and put that in. With that came a new Muffler (Thanks Cherry) that I put in at...
• Re: Power loss when engine wet and cold
  Historical mailing list - Karl Mullendore
  Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:27:59 -0400
  ...ditto temp sensor. O2 sensor and, > though to a much lesser extent, temp sensor, are high impedence, low > current devices, so in this context...
• Re: CIS problems AGAIN!
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 7 Feb 1996 20:21:22 -0400
  ...I've narrowed it down to the O2 sensor. Since it >has never been installed on the Vanagon. Hmmm, you mean this sensor works...
• Re: Fuel Injection Wire Harness Meltdown!
  Historical mailing list - Joe Romas
  Sun, 10 Mar 2002 09:37:14 -0500
  ...To recap, I was replacing the oxygen sensor with a generic from the > Bus Depot. I very carefully soldered and taped the O2 sensor...
• Re: losing power and some thin smoke
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:13:08 -0400
  ...Also suspect the TEMPII sensor. Ken Lewis 86 Transporter Crew Cab 60 356 T-5 Porsche http://neksiwel.20m.com/ Vanagon tech, pixs, O2...
• Digitool
  Historical mailing list - Richard A Jones
  Thu, 2 Jun 2005 07:01:43 -0600
  ...engine and, using a knob, allow monitoring > various sensor voltages, such as the O2 sensor, etc. Daryl Buhler: http://www.loam.org/vw/Vanagon...
• Monitor the Oxygen Sensor on your Vanagon.
  Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
  Sun, 7 Jul 2002 12:11:57 -0400
  ...The display is a ten LED bar so the voltage level of the O2 sensor is represented as a moving dot. The gadget is...
• Re: vanagon syndrome strikes...advice?
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:09:12 -0500
  The Digifant vans have the heated O2 sensor, Digijet did not. Digijet also does not relay on the sensor as much. Usually a bad...
• Significance of the o2 sensor
  Historical mailing list - John N. Motlagh
  Wed, 19 May 2004 18:30:24 -0500
  ...Upon review of the archives, all signs point to the o2 sensor as the culprit. I took it out, it is a little grey...
• Re: Diagnosing Issue using O2 Meter during Open-Loop Operation
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:22:31 -0700
  I like to retrofit the heated three wire oxygen sensor to 1.9 waterboxer engines. Real easy to do. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rocket J...
• Re: Heh -- I'm such a ninnyhammer
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Sun, 3 Aug 2008 20:17:46 -0400
  ...O2 sensor is strictly emissions-related and enforces a very narrow range of mixture oscillating back and forth across stoich, which is what the...
• Re: 86 digifant running rich
  Historical mailing list - Coby Smolens
  Wed, 2 Jun 1999 01:02:32 -0700
  You can check that the computer is _responding_ to the O2 sensor by watching them dance... Check the voltage at the O2 sensor wire...
• Re: Running rough, dies as temp gauge starts to register
  Historical mailing list - Angus Gordon
  Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:29:44 -0800
  ...Your symptoms do fit the O2 sensor, but just wanted to point out your temp sensor test is invalid. Glad to hear you're...
• Re: Question about temp II sensor and bad running
  Historical mailing list - dylan friedman
  Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:40:30 -0700
  ...net> wrote: > >> Zero volts shows a bad sensor, assuming proper measurement setup. >> >> Replacing the o2 sensor is the logical step now. Then you need...
• O2 light glowing...
  Historical mailing list - Art McGinn
  Fri, 27 May 2005 10:59:03 -0700
  my oxygen-sensor idiot light has been aglow for a couple of months but the engine is running fine/normal, so far as i...
• 1900 RPM
  Historical mailing list - Jere Hawn
  Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:39:36 -0800
  Greetings, I think i have a problem with 1900 RPM??? Anyone have any ideas. i have changed the O2 sensor so far. TIA Jere
• Re: 1.9 idle woes
  Historical mailing list - John Rodgers
  Sun, 19 Mar 2000 20:31:19 -0600
  ...Do this by warming the engine, then shut it down, remove the O2 sensor connector at the idle stabilizer valve, then start engine again...
• Re: Engine stalling at high speed
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Sat, 16 Apr 2016 13:46:03 -0400
  ...Things like the O2 sensor, Hall sensor at the distributor, idle switch at throttle body, or any associated wiring. Have you tried running with...
• Re: 1.9 runs better with 02 sensor disconnected-kinda long cause I need to ventialte
  Historical mailing list - Roger Sisler
  Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:22:29 -0500
  ...It has no idle stop adjustment.I would like to swap out a O2 sensor with my parts van. Need to know if this...
• Re: Cat Bypass Pipe "pros & cons"
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:32:18 -0400
  ...The DJ code engine liked it. >No O2 sensor use by ECU in that one and I only used it monitor fuel >mixture. I...
• My poor MPG, O2 sensor seems okay
  Historical mailing list - Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\" Elliott
  Mon, 10 Sep 2007 15:47:20 -0700
  ...It has been proposed that my poor numbers might be due to a funky O2 sensor, or crummy compression. I'll get to the...
• Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
  Historical mailing list - OlRivrRat
  Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:47:36 -0600
  ...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: O2 sensor
  Historical mailing list - Wesley Pegden
  Tue, 30 May 2006 18:59:42 -0400
  What all was covered in his quote? -Wes Arlene K Sondergaard wrote: > i wish it was just the o2 light that was the problem...
• Re: 02 sensor life
  Historical mailing list - Yi-Ruey Wei
  Thu, 8 Jul 1999 13:44:15 -0500
  The VW factory maintenance booklet calls for 90K-mile O2 sensor replacement on Vanagon after m.y. 1988. Some '87 Vanagon's have a...
• Re: O2 Sensor Wire
  Historical mailing list - Matt Sutton
  Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:46:33 -0500
  ...If there is ANY continuity between the two, even with the O2 sensor disconnected at the tailpipe, the ECU will freak out, and make...
• Re: O2 sensor coax wire testing
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Tue, 22 Jan 2002 03:17:48 -0500
  ...If it does, prolly bad sensor. If it doesn't prolly bad wire. >Another question...the O2 sensor voltage is definitely produced by the...
• that old O2 sensor ground
  Historical mailing list - Alistair Bell
  Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:19:14 -0700
  Mark Drillock has warned us on many occasions that the O2 sensor brown ground wire that attaches to engine case near the distributor can...
• Re: Oxygen Sensor Ground
  Historical mailing list - Evan Mac Donald
  Sat, 25 Mar 2006 07:34:43 -0800
  ...On a newer-style, self-heated O2 sensor, is the ground only for the heating element, or does the sensor also use that same...
• (no subject)
  Historical mailing list - Scott DeSanti
  Tue, 16 Jun 1998 11:12:39 EDT
  Hello Again Volks, Here's a Digifant question relating to 02 sensors. Does the O2 sensor light activate solely due to the odometer device...
• <No subject>
  Historical mailing list - Little Bear
  Tue, 19 Dec 2000 08:48:53 -0500
  You might want to also check your O2 Sensor. It is quit possible that it is your fuel pump. Yet, it sounds as if...
• Re: New O2 Sensor now stuttering
  Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
  Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:54:51 -0700
  ...New O2 Sensor now stuttering So I had this O2 sensor that I picked up a few years ago but never installed since the...
• Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
  Historical mailing list - Don Hanson
  Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:10:58 -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...
• New sensors -now running hot
  Historical mailing list - chrisadubs
  Thu, 13 Sep 2001 18:55:05 -0700
  Hello all, Just replaced my catalyctic converter, O2 sensor, temp2 sensor, and temperature sending unit. I ran it until the fan kicked on and...
• Re: Which O2 sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Larry Alofs
  Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:34:21 -0500
  ...Connect the other lead to the place where the O2 sensor wire connects to the wiring harness, with the sensor connected. With the engine...
• Re: Infrequent symptom: inconsistent power after descending hill
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:14:32 -0400
  ...The O2 sensor will also go cold and stop working. Upon needing power the O2 sensor is ignored for 30 crank revolutions after fuel...
• Re: Tighten-up your AFM
  Historical mailing list - Tom Young
  Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:48:52 -0700
  ...Seems to me though that in a properly functioning FI system the > lean condition would be compensated for by the O2 sensor and ECU...
• Re: Poor Gas Mileage
  Historical mailing list - Michael D. Dower
  Wed, 7 May 1997 18:19:30 -0400 (EDT)
  ...I replaced the o2 sensor about 3000- miles ago. It is blowing black smoke and the power is about 2/3 of what it...
• Re: Crummy Vanagon performance
  Historical mailing list - Gil Ngai
  Mon, 17 May 2021 11:32:02 -0600
  ...The observed signal varied as expected for an O2 sensor. The temps 2 and O2 sensor inputs relay heavily on proper ground reference. Yes...
• Re: When the O2 sensor cools down...
  Historical mailing list - David Beierl
  Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:58:07 -0400
  ...Right -- that's the ECU driving the sensor. When the sensor comes back to life its signal overpowers the ECU's constant half-volt...
• Re: CSI: Vanagon...Smog results!
  Historical mailing list - Old Volks Home
  Mon, 5 Feb 2007 10:05:47 -0800
  ...You should be > > able to see > > >the sensor reading vary from .2 to.8 volts. You now have O2 > > sensor control. > > >If the throttle...
• Re: Engine management (manual control of mixture)
  Historical mailing list - kenneth d lewis
  Sun, 16 Jan 2000 17:46:05 EST
  Fellow Suffragons; I have a hard time believing the O2 sensor only affects 1% of fuel management. I know for a fact that a...
• Re: Cough, Choke, Splutter!
  Historical mailing list - Laurence Smith
  Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:42:47 -0500
  ...Even when the O2 sensor was disconnected the problem was still there. This told me that the internals of the coax wire were faulty...
• Re: O2 Sensor question... not mentioned in archives
  Historical mailing list - Matthew Pollard
  Sun, 12 May 2002 19:22:06 -0700
  the oxygen sensor light has nothing really to do with the oxygen sensor but instead is just a light that is suppose to go...
• Re: Low MPG & Carbon Monoxide Smell
  Historical mailing list - ghamburg
  Thu, 7 May 1998 22:39:33 -0700
  Who sells O2 sensors ? best Price ? can I do it myself? if so how? Greg -----Original Message----- From: Modl6971 <Modl6971@aol.com> To: ghamburg...
• turning of the O2 sensor light
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 8 Nov 2000 11:08:31 EST
  Thanks to all who replied to my earlier question and told me where to find the button that controls the O2 sensor reminder light...
• Re: Rough running, black smoke, running rich, no idle
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Wed, 5 Feb 2014 00:30:20 -0500
  ...Since you can start it and it runs for a short while I would look at the O2 sensor circuit. Since the sensor being...
• Re: Engine Running Rich
  Historical mailing list - Jay L Snyder
  Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:06:31 -0400
  ...I also would measure the VDC coming off of your O2 sensor. Run the engine until it is warm and then shut it down...
• RE: unplug '86 idle stabilizer?
  Historical mailing list
  Wed, 21 May 1997 22:41:22 -0700
  ...While most people seem to not realize it, a sealed exhuast upstream from the O2 sensor is critical for proper operation of the system...
• Re: O2 Sensor Installed and CO adjustment problems (Sorry, Long)
  Historical mailing list - Warner, Jeff (DSIO-MS)
  Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:47:01 -0400
  ...2> turn off engine and disconnect O2 sensor from ECU but leave monitor connected to sensor. 3>start engine and adjust AFM spring to...
• Need help with O2 sersor install
  Historical mailing list - gary hradek
  Sun, 7 Apr 2002 14:34:38 -0700
  ...Need help with O2 sersor install I'm going to install a new 02 sensor today, but it struck me. There are = 2 white...
• Re: Billy Bones' never ending story
  Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
  Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:27:16 -0500
  ...Billy Bones' never ending story Just today, one of the mechanics I talked to attached a meter to the O2 sensor and said it...
• Re: Splicing O2 sensor?
  Historical mailing list - Nathaniel Merrill
  Wed, 26 May 1999 17:26:29 -0700
  ...I think its time to put in that new O2 sensor. The Sensor I have in the van differs slightly from the one I...
• Re: Continuing Engine Troubles
  Historical mailing list - Gerald Skerbitz
  Sat, 11 May 1996 19:14:13 -0500 (CDT)
  ...The key to the answer was Dan Houg's information that the resistance between the O2 sensor wire coming from the ECU and ground...
• Re: O2 sensor necessary or jumper the wires on 85 GL 1.9
  Historical mailing list - A J I
  Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:27:02 -0400
  ...If I temporarily jumper the wire so it would seem > connected to a sensor would the ECU the assume the o2 is functioning > properly...