Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:32:47 -0500
Reply-To: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
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From: Mike Collum <collum@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: Thread pitch / hole size for 1.9 WBX O2 sensor
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The nut that holds the steering wheel on my '85 is M16 X 1.5 ... not the
M18 X 1.5 of the O2 bung. Could older models have a different size nut
on the steering wheel?
Mike
Robert Keezer wrote:
> It's the same pitch and size as the nut that
> holds on the steering wheel.
>
> Robert
>
> 1982 Westfalia
>
>
>
> --- Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
>
>> Working on solving FI operation problems.
>>
>> Removed O2 sensor - actually had someone do it
>> as I couldn't get it out.
>>
>> Go to install a new one and find threads are
>> damaged and it won't screw
>> in. (No wonder I couldn't get the old one out
>> and it made such
>> screeching noises while being removed.)
>>
>> So, I need to see about getting these threads
>> in the collector tapped
>> out and the ones on the new sensor cleaned up a
>> bit.
>>
>> In the archives I found info on the thread size
>> and pitch for
>> Digifant O2 sensors - 18 x 1.5, but nothing
>> about the 1.9l sensor's
>> threads. Is it the same for the Digijet O2
>> sensor? They don't go in
>> the same pipe or location so they aren't
>> necessarily the same. And I
>> don't have one to compare.
>>
>> Don't really want to muscle it in.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sam Walters
>>
>> Baltimore, MD
>>
>
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