

| Subject: | Re: O2 sensor-testing the wires |
| From: | Geza Polony |
| Date: | Fri, 6 Apr 2007 13:18:18 -0400 |
Could you explain this statement, in layman's terms? "Believe it or not, too many grounds can often result in more problems than insufficient grounds." It's new to me. I always thought that electricity simply found the path of least resistance, and so doubling grounds couldn't have a bad effect. Is that wrong? In my own case, with a 1.9 (one-wire sensor) I didn't trust the OE sensor ground through the rusty 23-year-old exhaust, and so installed a solid copper wire from the sensor body to an engine ground point. I also read somewhere that head gasket problems might be caused by insufficient grounds, with electrolysis created by the flow of electricity from the ground point on heads through to the engine case. To remedy this I installed my own "web" of copper ground wires to points on both heads, the case, the frame, etc. Can these "remedies" cause problems? Geza
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