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Subject:Re: Fix Those Exhaust Leaks!
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:30:35 -0500

At 07:44 PM 11/28/2000, Paul Borghese wrote:
>Why does an exhaust leak cause performance problems?  Because the Oxygen
>Sensor is under reading the output?

Because oxygen gets sucked into the leak during part of the cycle, gets
read by the sensor and fools the ECU into running rich.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
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