Re: Tech: O2 sensors

["Chris DeLong" <green536@hotmail.com>]

Try checking the tightness of the spark plug. If it is loose then the 
combustion pressure could be leaking past the plug and causing the wire to 
pop up.


>
>In a message dated 12/4/2000 2:23:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>rabbit16v@prodigy.net writes:
>
><< my car gets 35mpg PLUS (if I don't drive it like a nascar everyday) with 
>my
>  O2 sensor disconnected.  HTH, it better have it took me way too much time 
>to
>  type that out!!!  >>
>
>Well I read the entire thing and learned a lot. Thanks for taking the time.
>So I read  in your message that at full throttle, the o2 sensor is not even
>used so any problems at full throttle will have nothing to do with the o2
>sensor system right?
>
>  Well I reconnected my 02 anyway and again I had a bad stumbling episode.  
>I
>am now attributing this to a bad spark plug wire on the number 1 cylinder.
>two days ago I noticed it not sitting flush it was up about 1mm.  It did 
>not
>seem to click in so I twisted it a little and it went in.  Next day full
>throttle and bad stumbling, checked it today and it was up again, pushed it
>back down t. Today bad miss again.  I looked at it just now and it is up
>again. It runs fine with it being up  1mm so I will leave it like this 
>until
>I can get a new wire.  Anyone have a spare 16v wire laying around for the 
>#1
>cylinder?  I can't buy a new set they are just too much money and I only 
>need
>one wire as the rest are fine.
>Thanks all.
>Later
>
>Brian 86 16v
>http://members.nbci.com/captnbr/captnbr
>
>http://hometown.aol.com/captnbr/myhomepage/auto.html
>
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