Hear, hear! It's a resistor, f'heaven's sake. Well, a special resistor, but not that special. Of course it's no simpler than the Temp I sensor. However if it were badly designed it could fail from mechanical stress as the sensor body temperature-cycles. As to the stories of "tests ok but still caused a problem" -- I reckon that depends on the test. If it goes open-circuit when it heats up the ECU is going to think the engine suddenly got dipped in liquid nitrogen. But if it displays a smooth resistance vs. temperature curve within the limits defined by Bentley (notice that the tables for T I and T II values are identical) then that's a definitive test that the part is good. david At 15:35 10/24/2000, Jay L Snyder wrote: >I find it hard to believe how many times I read about replacing the Temp II >sensor. It has to be the simplest part of the whole FI system. I am >wondering if most problems that were "fixed" by replacing the Temp II >sensor were due to bad connections at the sensor, or air trapped in the >antifreeze at the sensor location. Both would likely be fixed by putting >in a new sensor. (Assuming, like me, you would take the time to clean-up >the wiring before reconnecting.) David Beierl - Providence, RI http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/ '84 Westy "Dutiful Passage" '85 GL "Poor Relation" |
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