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Date:         Mon, 13 May 1996 06:40:34 -0700 (PDT)
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From:         John Huguenard <hugie@lindy.stanford.edu>
Subject:      Re: Continuing Engine Troubles



At 07:14 PM 5/11/96 -0500, Gerry (OFL) wrote:
>Well, after a bunch of checking and asking questions and lots of help from
>the list, I found the reason why the car was running continually rich.
>The key to the answer was Dan Houg's information that the resistance
>between the O2 sensor wire coming from the ECU and ground was 160K.  I was
>getting something on the order of 20. (Not 20K either).  So with the
>knowledge that the O2 circuit was somehow grounded, I started checking and


Gerry,


I think that might just do it. This was exactly the problem with my '81.
Fixing the short in the coax cable totally fixed all the running rich
problems.  (There was a post about this a couple of years ago).


_______________


John Huguenard
'81 Westy (Dino)
hugie@lindy.stanford.edu
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