Cleaning an O2 sensor

[gatesj at mailblocks.com (John Gates)]

Just buying a generic four wire sensor is fairly cheap but it may be 
even cheaper to buy other sensors.  For example, the four wire sensor 
for my F-150 is $40, the generic is about $55-$60.  I have bought the 
F-150 sensor (same exact part, Bosch) cut the Ford connector off and 
soldered on the VW pigtail and used it in my Jetta without incident.

Try asking for the price of a sensor for a '95 Ford F-150.

But what sort of sucks is that standard, non-wideband sensors will 
transition between high voltage and low voltage VERY quickly when you 
cross the center of stoichiometric.  You have to watch the voltage very 
closely as you set the mixture and move the mixture adjustment very 
slowly.

John Gates
--
'85 Scirocco
'97 Jetta GLX

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Blue <sukchew@cox-internet.com>
To: roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Sent: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:41:18 -0500
Subject: Re: Cleaning an O2 sensor

If you use a ghetto 02 sensor for your gas analysis you probably will 
get ghetto reading.And then you will still have to get a good one 
anyway.
Break down and make your local FLAPS happy if you really need one.
ole blue
----- Original Message ----- From: "C Boyko" 
<roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:15 AM
Subject: Cleaning an O2 sensor

>
> I've got an old O2 sensor from the one Passat that I want to make use 
of,
> but it has a bunch of sooty, loose material on its tip, I'd like to 
know
> what I could safely use to clean it up a bit so it can actually "see" 
the
> exhaust stream. I'm guessing gas, but would immersing it damage it? 
HAve > at
> it, I'm sure someone has an opinion, or a suggestion. And no, I don't 
want
> to buy a new one, I just hope to use it for some ghetto gas analysis 
on my
> CIS car.
>
> Cathy
>
>
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