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Date:         Sat, 20 Sep 2014 10:19:32 -0700
Reply-To:     Keith Hughes <keithahughes@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Keith Hughes <keithahughes@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2  signal
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I've been running RG-8 coax for years, with the shield grounded at the ECU end (on a Tiico Motronic ECU) and works fine. You can pick it up at anywhere from Best Buy, Radioshack, to Home Depot or Lowes. You can always purchase a ready-made cable for a television hookup and cut the cable connectors off the ends as well.

Keith Hughes '86 Westy Tiico (Marvin) ------------------------------ Date:    Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:06:33 -0700 From:    Don Hanson <dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> Subject: Wire gauge for the shielded wire for the O2 signal? My shielded wire from the O2 sensor to the ECU...that is badly aged and cracked, resulting in it shorting, again, from the signal wire inside to the metallic shielding.   It's happened recently and again just yesterday.. .so I am wanting to replace the whole wire, all the way from the O2 sensor to the ECU.. Second question:  Where might I source wire like that...and no, I don't want to replace my whole wiring harness...especially since I am running a hybrid inline power VW motor in my 84 Vanagon...   I was planning on simply  running another shielded wire across the engine compartment in parallel to the harness that carries the original wire (somewhere inside it) and there by solving my cracked and brittle wire shorting out problem...


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