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  • Re: tiico o2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - dunks
    Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:26:51 -0400
    ...tiico o2 sensor > > > looking for some list knowledge. just installed a2 > injectors/rail/regulator/carbon eliminator AND found that the o2 sensor is > wired...
  • o2 data addendum
    Historical mailing list - Schmidt
    Sat, 10 Mar 2001 21:55:38 -0500
    ...When I dc'd my o2 sensor, it was NOT coax, but just a small gauge insulated wire that I dc'd at a...
  • rough running
    Historical mailing list - Jason Nilsson
    Thu, 22 Jan 2004 22:18:47 -0500
    ...Have new air flow meter Have been running with o2 sensor disconected The van is acting as if it had a bad o2 sensor...
  • Re: o2 sensor troubles
    Historical mailing list - robert shawn feller
    Thu, 3 Aug 2006 10:38:51 -0400
    ...wrote: > John, > That's pretty cool but have you seen the O2 sensor monitor I make? > http://neksiwel.20m.com/photo5.html > > Ken Lewis...
  • Re: O2 sensor transition time
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Wed, 6 May 2009 18:39:46 -0700
    ...O2 sensor transition time > Running an '89 2.1l -- how fast should the O2 sensor change > states? I don't mean how often, but...
  • Ques.for 87 Syncro
    Historical mailing list - Chris Markov
    Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:38:26 -0800
    ...I plan to buy a new can but I still need an O2 sensor. I need the connector for the O2 sensor that plugs...
  • Re: How do I reset the O2 sensor light?
    Historical mailing list - Scott Walker
    Sun, 15 Aug 1999 19:28:33 -0400
    Just for clarification, the O2 sensor light box (anybody have a better name?) is the same as on all German built vehicles with CIS...
  • Re: interesting for o2 sens/power loss topic
    Historical mailing list - Karl Wolz
    Sat, 10 Mar 2001 22:22:17 -0700
    ...interesting for o2 sens/power loss topic Have no idea. I'm really reluctant to start screwing around with that stuff, having never touched...
  • CA Smog Failed - 1985 1.9L
    Historical mailing list - Walter Houle
    Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:19:08 -0400
    ...Test 1: %CO2=14.5 %O2=0.6 HC PPM Max=131 Measured=131 CO% Max=0.87 Measured = 0.37 NO PPM Max...
  • Re: diagnostic help? running rich(?)...
    Historical mailing list - Chris S.
    Wed, 23 Jul 2014 18:57:32 -0400
    ...So, I unplug the O2 sensor plug, re start and it stays > smooth.... > So me thinks I have a problem involving the O2 sensor...
  • Re: Removing stuck O2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - Stuart MacMillan
    Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:52:42 -0800
    ...Removing stuck O2 sensor A low or stumbling idle when cold that clears up when the engine is warm (and is not the O2...
  • How to display lambda sensor info
    Historical mailing list - William R. Kennedy, NJIT CIAT, 201-596-5648
    Mon, 11 Mar 96 13:35:56 EST
    ...AND/OR Could one of you electronics mavens gin up a circuit that would allow the O2 sensor info to be displayed on a...
  • Fuel consumption
    Historical mailing list - Jim Arnott
    Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:00:04 -0800
    ...BEFORE the O2 sensor. O2 sensor reads lean mixture from lessened and diluted exhaust and tells the ECU to richen it up to compensate...
  • Re: setting co at afm question
    Historical mailing list - Mark Keller
    Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:50:24 -0700
    Scott, Yes you can use the O2 sensor to set the Co. According to the Bosch Fuel Injection book by Probst, the correlation between...
  • Re: Removing stuck O2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:04:43 -0500
    ...Should I > break it off and use a regular 22mm socket? Get a 7/8" special O2 sensor > socket, which is slightly larger, so...
  • Re: WRONG INFO - O2 Sensor, Bucking, etc.
    Historical mailing list - Rico Sapolich
    Wed, 1 Nov 2000 09:50:22 EST
    ...minus signal must travel from the sensor device assembly, to the o2 case, to the exhaust system, to the engine, and then to pin...
  • Re: Power loss when engine wet and cold
    Historical mailing list - TC
    Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:20:42 -0700
    ...Power loss when engine wet and cold > I'll second the O2 sensor. Last winter we had exactly > the same symptoms, and were running...
  • Re[2]: Vanagon O2 Sensors
    Historical mailing list - John Robson
    Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:30:47 -0500
    Until recently I have always heard that the O2 sensor doesn't make any difference. Now my light is on and the van continues...
  • Re: Upgrading Digijet to 3-Wire O2 Sensor
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Tue, 13 May 2003 18:55:10 -0400
    ...If replacing the catalyst, I also use the later cat and relocate the O2 sensor there. Helps to get it out of the way...
  • Re: O2 Sensor wire connection (wiring harness end - 2.1)
    Historical mailing list - Scott Daniel - Turbovans
    Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:24:27 -0700
    ...O2 Sensor wire connection (wiring harness end - 2.1) > Hello everyone - > > Would anyone happen to have the yellow connector that connects the wirning > harness...
  • Re: Re[2]: Vanagon O2 Sensors
    Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
    Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:51:15 PDT
    > Until recently I have always heard that the O2 sensor doesn't make any > difference. You heard wrong. The O2 sensor is a vital...
  • 87' syncro runs rough when cold
    Historical mailing list - Dana E Hager
    Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:08:55 -0700
    ...Is there another test (voltage, ohms) to check the O2 sensor without using the CO test equipment in the bently manual. The new O2...
  • Re: Can O2-sensor make engine run too lean?
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:46:53 -0500
    ...Can O2-sensor make engine run too lean? Have been running engine with O2-sensor disconnected for past couple of weeks. Engine performance okay...
  • Re: O2 Sensor Questions
    Historical mailing list - Theresa Rennert
    Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:54:25 -0800
    ...I then disconnected the O2 sensor and all is well again. Could it in fact be a screwed O2 sensor or the wire that...
  • Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:05:13 -0700
    ...O2 sensors brand quality difference? > > Don: ..... > > Does your version of Digifant use a Heated O2 Sensor (HO2S) relay or > "module" ? > > Looking online it seems...
  • Re: Tii Trading Co. 2.0 South African conversion kit
    Historical mailing list - Dave Bayer
    Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:53:22 -0800
    > > No O2 sensor??? Really? That's really strange! > > That's what I understand. We'll see when it gets here. Apparently it is > a...
  • Re: FW: No stalling @ idle/low rpms
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Sat, 8 Apr 2000 22:00:32 -0400
    ...Widely available now that O2 sensors are ubiquitous. d David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85...
  • AFM spring adjsutment
    Historical mailing list - Patrick Callaghan Jr.
    Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:47:48 -0800
    I have to adjust the spring tension on my 82 westy without a O2 sensor. I know I have to increase the tension to...
  • Re: O2 Sensors
    Historical mailing list - Todd Last
    Fri, 30 Sep 2005 20:46:17 +0000
    ...Has anyone ever heard of "retraining the computer" for a new O2 sensor? > > > Does this shop advocate changing the air in the tires, too...
  • Re: O2 Sensor Idea (long)
    Historical mailing list - Geza Polony
    Thu, 7 Sep 2006 22:50:30 -0400
    ...OK, so what I'm hearing is, don't mess with the O2 sensor voltage--but install a heated sensor. Maybe not perfect, but...
  • Re: O2-sensor blues and more on '84 1.9L engine
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:20:25 -0400
    ...Shorting the engine end of the O2-sensor >connector to ground makes the engine decrease RPM, run rough, and >exhaust to smell rich. That...
  • Re: When the O2 sensor cools down...
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:50:30 -0400
    ...When the O2 sensor cools down... On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>wrote: > Engine braking is...
  • 1.9L Gutless when first started
    Historical mailing list - Michael Elliott
    Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:00:27 -0700
    ...Ken Lewis O2 monitor sits pretty steady in center of range during this brief time (new O2 sensor, too, O2 fluctuates properly when ECU...
  • Re: O2 sensor in gutted cat question
    Historical mailing list - Andrew Martin
    Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:37:17 -0700
    Following Dennis' excellent recommendation, I bought an OEM o2 sensor shield from The Bus Depot a few years back. After I installed it and...
  • Cat dead?:, was: O2 Sensorama
    Historical mailing list - Ron McLean
    Sun, 18 Aug 2002 06:36:06 -0700
    ...Matthew Bulley" <gmbulley@BULLEY-HEWLETT.COM> wrote: > O2 sensor not important, eh? Just for 'clean air > wack-o's' eh? > > From a functionality/engineering...
  • Re: Tiico / Vagcom / Mileage - Kinda long
    Historical mailing list - Ray Reinhard
    Mon, 3 Jun 2002 09:23:47 -0700
    ...Mileage was a lot worse, but >while on a trip, I replaced the O2 sensor with a generic 3-wire >(all I could find...
  • Re: Circuit 85 Vanagon
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:50:29 -0500
    ...The o2 warning light has a bit of a dual function. There is a mileage counter that urns it on at ~30k mile intervals...
  • Re: [ was Winter heating - now new Coleman heater]
    Historical mailing list - Karl F. Bloss
    Wed, 8 Dec 1999 11:04:41 -0500
    Catalytic or not, the heater converts propane (C3H8) and O2 to H2O and CO2. Once the O2 level gets low, it makes H2O, CO2...
  • Re: Air fuel tuning technique - Gurus wanted
    Historical mailing list - Bostig Engineering
    Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:36:26 -0700
    ...Just to clarify, for > the > O2 sensor reading I used a digital automotive multimeter (a good one) > using > millivolts. I rounded the figures in...
  • Re: how do I get O2 sensor out?
    Historical mailing list
    Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:54:55 -0400
    ...The reason I ask is that when >I called busboys, they first quoted ma e price for the '85 O2 sensor >which is about...
  • Re: Catalytic convertor
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:17:52 -0500
    At 09:47 AM 1/23/2001, Keith Adams wrote: >It affects the O2 sensor, which affects your mixture. The >O2 sensor is (as...
  • Re: '88 stalling, lurching problems increasing
    Historical mailing list - Samuel Scott
    Wed, 26 Mar 2003 13:38:38 EST
    Shawn - Another possible area for this problem, (I've had it in the past), is in the O2 sensor connection. If moisture gets in...
  • Re: O2 Sensor Idea (long)
    Historical mailing list - Budd Premack
    Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:50:28 -0500
    ...The digifant has a heated o2 sensor. So lets talk about digifant models. The o2 unit is hot and ready to function before the...
  • Re: GOWESTY AFM no start problem
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Wed, 22 Jun 2016 20:37:15 -0400
    ...I disconnected the O2 sensor then installed the AFM started the engine with the O2 still disconnected idled great. Shut everything down reconnected O2...
  • re. O2 sensor output voltage
    Historical mailing list
    Sat, 11 Nov 2000 20:35:16 -0700
    ...what O2 sensor output range is considered = normal with the ECU adjusting things? I thought that the O2 sensor / = ECU combination attempts to adjust...
  • Re: Voltages from O2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - David Beierl
    Mon, 4 Mar 2002 10:20:27 -0500
    At 07:34 AM 3/4/2002, WVVW wrote: >1)leave the O2 sensor connected and take the reading from the O2 lead to...
  • Re: Generic O2 Sensors - What is the real deal?
    Historical mailing list - Todd Last
    Mon, 2 Apr 2007 17:48:28 +0000
    Yes, GoWesty would have us buy OEM O2 sensors with the money we save by following their recomendation to run passenger car tires.. <BSG...
  • Re: Inconsistent stumbling on resume throttle..Was "vanagon syndrome?"
    Historical mailing list - Neil N
    Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:27:38 -0700
    ...So black wire Don saw is likely the O2 voltage output ("signal") wire? On 6/25/14, Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@q.com> wrote: > Pos...
  • O2 Senson
    Historical mailing list - Stephen Bibler
    Thu, 17 Apr 1997 22:28:20 -0700
    I was reading in the list about problems associated with the O2 sensor. My 1990 Vanagon has over 102,000 miles and supposedly according...
  • Re: [Fwd: Re: Gas in Oil?]
    Historical mailing list - Sean Bartnik
    Fri, 2 May 97 12:43:33 EDT
    > > > FYI, my '83.5 (H2O) has an O2 sensor. > Charles > Yeah, that would make sense. When VW discontinued the air-cooled engine and went...
  • Re: '87 Westy Weekender owner needs help!!!!!! 2.1L wbx running rich???
    Historical mailing list - Ken Lewis
    Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:36:07 -0400
    I have a new batch of O2 monitor gadgets. They fit in the switch blank under the Hazard switch. $20. See and read about...
  • HELP NEEDED ON THE ROAD
    Historical mailing list - Cooper Jonathan
    Wed, 18 Sep 2002 22:36:49 -0400
    ...The gas mileage was not as horrible as when I have had an O2 sensor go bad, and I had more high speed and...
  • Re: Vanagon O2 Sensors
    Historical mailing list - marcus
    Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:41:46 -0700
    ...Bought a "stock" O2 sensor, > plugged it in and all was well again. > > So moral of the story? Either the generic O2 sensor I...
  • 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...
  • Re: O2 sensor in gutted cat question
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Haynes
    Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:46:59 -0400
    ...O2 sensor in gutted cat question Following Dennis' excellent recommendation, I bought an OEM o2 sensor shield from The Bus Depot a few years...
  • Re: Removing stuck O2 sensor
    Historical mailing list - Tom Buese
    Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:07:47 -0500
    ...Removing stuck O2 sensor > > > > How much heat? it really needs to get HOT! > > YMMV, > > Mr. BZ > > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 1:59...
  • O2 sensor part number and ?'s
    Historical mailing list - Seamus Padraic Ragan
    Sat, 25 May 1996 19:01:10 -0400 (EDT)
    Hello all I have searched the archive and was unabel to find a reference for the part number for the O2 sensor. I have...
  • Re: Idle hunting problem, 85 1.9l
    Historical mailing list - Dave Caston & Sherrie Payne
    Sat, 30 Jan 1999 00:34:34 -0500
    ...what happens usually >is that the mixture (rich/lean) is too lean, the O2 sensor >detects this, the computer increases the mixture, and it...
  • Re: Generic O2 Sensor
    Historical mailing list - The Bus Depot
    Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:32:56 -0400
    > The Bosch O2 sensor is not a generic replacement, it is a Bosch Part for > a Ford with the connector removed or not. I...
  • Re: GOWESTY AFM no start problem
    Historical mailing list - Dennis Jowell
    Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:38:19 -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...