Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 11:19:10 -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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Unfortunately the Waterboxer doesn’t lend itself to this method.
Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Neil N
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 5:09 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: O2 sensors brand quality difference?
Interesting. Not to side track, but on my engine swap, I used an exhaust manifold with an O2 bung. Image:
http://tinyurl.com/cluzaqr
Maybe car makers decided this was a better idea, all told?
Anyhow.....
Neil.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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,S
> > ea
> > rch%20for%202001%20CHEVROLET,EPIsubcategory[1015],Oxygen%2BSensor,pa
> > rt
> > 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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Neil n
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