At 04:09 PM 2/24/2002, Robert Steven Fish wrote:
>The wire appears to me, to be a format typical to "shielded-type" cable...
>however I have never seen a shielded cable in a car before (I"ve seen it
>often in cable TV coaxial cables, and RJ-45 network cables which need the
>shielding from any external electromagnetic interference).

Now you have. <g>

>Anyway, this fat green "double" wire has a connector crimped onto the middle
>"core" wire, which is at present, rather poorly wrapped around my existing
>Oxygen Sensor wire.

I don't understand the statement.  The normal connector is a female
spade-lug on both harness and sensor wires, each with a flat molded rubber
boot.  They are joined by a molded plastic double-male which seals the boot
on each end.

>   And the outer "shielding" wire is simply peeled back,
>and taped up with electrical tape.
>
>I cannot imagine that this is the correct way to handle this.

The clean way is to trim the shield braid off flush with the outer jacket,
leaving a bit of the inner insulation sticking out.  The important points
are not to nick the inner conductor, and not to let the braid short to the
inner conductor.

>Does anyone know the function of the outer wire of the O2 Sensor to Control
>Unit wire?

It's a shield -- grounded and one end, floating at the other.  It shields
the part of the sensor wire that travels bundled in the harness with other
wires.

>Does the OEM Oxygen Sensor come with a connector which uses BOTH of these
>parts of the fat green wire??

Nope.

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Nice fish!

david

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