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Date:         Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:30:10 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject:      Re: Which O2 sensor?
Comments: To: Jeffrey Vickers <jeff@VICKERSDESIGN.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <B937AB24-CE38-4F2D-9821-E9855CA8516E@vickersdesign.com>
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I recently bought the splice in type. I had it installed by a mechanic at the time other work was being done. Immediately upon starting up and driving away, it started stumbling and bumbling. It was late, and I just stopped and unplugged the thing. I fighured it was the splice, and sure enough, when I got to it, I found it WAS the splice.

I went and got me some "knife" connectors or knife disconnects as they are sometimes called. They are a crimp-on device with a blade that has a hook on the end. You put two of these together blade to blade and hook to hook and give them a little twist and the hook of one locks over the blade of the other, making a very powerful connection impossible to pull apart. The connector will pull loose from the wire before the connectors separate from each other. I used a proper crimping tool to crimp the connector onto the wires. Nothing like the right tool for the right job. I slipped a piece of heat shrink tubing down over each wire before connecting the connectors together, then pulled it back up over the exposed metal of the connectors. I heated it up and shrunk the tubing tight to the connectors. At the ends of the tubing, I smeared on a bit of silicon sealer to make it water tight. I got in my van, started her up, no more stumbling and bumbling. Change out for the next O2 sensor will now be easy.

John Rodgers 88 GL Driver Jeffrey Vickers wrote: > I've been getting stumbling/missing between 3 and 4K rpm so I > disconnected my O2 sensor and it seems to have cured the problem. > What's the consensus on a new sensor? Bite the bullet and go with and > OEM unit or get the generic and splice in the plug? > > Jeff > 87 Syncro Westy >


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