Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 17:02:47 -0400
Reply-To: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
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Actually since our exhausts are so thin the sensors have difficulty staying hot enough to work. Add rain, snow, or highway speed and things get worse. The heater is needed and on the 1.9s I often upgrade them to heated sensors.
Dennis
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Stuart MacMillan
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 3:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
Heating is purely an emissions enhancement for cold running. Sensor is useless until it heats up, which doesn’t take long in our short exhausts.
Stuart
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From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Don Hanson
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 12:11 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
Well, here's another question, and thanks. Is there any problem
installing an unheated one in my particular application with a heated harness, but the existing 4 wire plug is.....awful...the wires are cracked where they enter into the plug body and brittle for the whole way until
they enter into the shielding. It will be difficult to 'splice' anything
onto that plug....it would be easier and more certain of the connections to simply cut the plug off and start over....I rarely use my van in short drive situations...so having the O2 sensor heating itself quickly is not a big deal....
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 11:31 AM, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote:
> Don
>
> Check out TheseGuys if you can wait a few days to get it ~
>
> <
> https://www.rockauto.com/catalog/x,carcode,1286591,parttype,5132,a,Sea
> rch%20for%202001%20CHEVROLET,EPIsubcategory[1015],Oxygen%2BSensor,part
> Group,19
> >
>
> This is the 1 I used to use on my 90Westy when it was
> H2OBxr+Digifant ~
>
> < https://www.rockauto.com/catalog/moreinfo.php?pk=279808&cc=1286580 >
>
> The BusDepot Deal is certainly a good 1 if you don't mind
> Splicing ~ & it does help support OurBuddys ~
>
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
>
> On 25 Jul , 2014, at 10:55 AM, Don Hanson wrote:
>
> > I am replacing what's almost surely a failing O2 sensor in my
> > inline VW motored van and I wanted to see what the List take is on O2 sensors.
> > There is a pretty wild difference in cost. But they seem to be simple
> > things and every car has a few now a days, not many of them seem to
> > fail too often...
> > Is it worthwhile spending nearly a hundred bucks for a Bosch to put
> > into my van, or can I use a generic autoparts store brand and expect
> > to get a few years of service from that and much less cost?
> >
> > What say ye? and thanks
> > Don Hanson
>
>
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