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Subject:Re: 11MPG!
From:Joshua Van Tol
Date:Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:46:39 -0600

>Check your tail pipe.  Full of soot, right?  It's your O2 sensor.
>Disconnect it.  Shud take care of the problem immediately.
>

Should read, replace it. The oxygen sensor, when working correctly, will
help, not hinder your fuel milage. Disconnecting it will lead to looser
regulation of fuel mixture, lower fuel milage (or possibly higher, but at
the expense of reduced power, and very hot exhaust, depending on which way
your air flow meter is out of whack). Not only that, disconnecting the
oxygen sensor would be illegal in the united states, to the tune of a $2500
fine, in the unlikely event that you would be cought. It's a $30 part,
replace it.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@lear.csp.ee.memphis.edu