At 11:05 AM 10/27/2002, john cianci wrote:
>also there is a green wire with copper, sheathing, then another layer of
>coppper and then the outter sheathing what is this????

That's where the lead from the oxy sensor connects.  Since it's not
connected, the sensor is having no effect at the moment -- the other two
leads on the sensor are just a heater to kick-start it.

Using a digital meter you should see close to 500 mv from that lead to
ground when the ignition is on, cold engine.  If you see near zero instead,
there's quite likely a short from the inner conductor to the shield which
is grounded.  That would make the ECU go to full rich as soon as Temp II
indicated warmup.

david

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