Date:         Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:15:30 -0400
Reply-To:     Jonce Fancher <strtbug@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jonce Fancher <strtbug@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      OX sensor ground question
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Hi all
have been tooling around in my 85 westi without many cares for some
time. then started to get a intermitent stutter that would go away
after a few min or if you stopped the engine and restarted it a few min
later it was back to full power. well this past saturday the stutter
came on and didnt just go away after a few min. so i took the 71
sunroof off the lift since its waiting for main and idle jets for its
1835cc dual carbed fun. so the 85 westi went on the lift and i started
poking around to find some issues. 2 have been going on for a little
while so i corrected those. one was the plastic 3 wire plug on the side
of the distributor was broken and so i swapped out the distributor, cap
and rotor. also a small exhaust leak from where the 1-3 pipe and the
2-4 pipe connect. put in some real beefy exhaust gaskets and replaced 2
bolts no big deal. so i poked around and found that the exhaust support
braket was broken off up by where the header flange is mounted on the
#4 exhaust hole. so my question is: is this the ground point for the OX
sensor? do i need to run a grounding cable to the bolt locals for
proper grounding. should the ohms be "0" from case to exhaust? ive
checked all gounds on the motor head to head to body to trans to body
to this to that and the grounds are good. the bus stutters at all
speeds and idles high for a second or two of course this is after
warmed up. any ideas?? thanks Jonce