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Guest Frag Posted September 28, 2002 Share Posted September 28, 2002 Why am I getting this remark? Nothing different in my posting... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frag Posted September 28, 2002 Share Posted September 28, 2002 Here's an abstract of what I posted previoulsly and was refused (still dont understand why). No HTLM in my post. Had a film of black soot in the tail pipe for the last six months and diminishing fuel mileage performance. Replaced the O2 sensor with an universal one Standard Motor Products SG 36. 83$ CAN. Have to splice the new sensor to the previous wires and connector. Old sensor was a Bosch LSH 24. 1) I was able to work from above. I bent over the passenger side fender and worked with an 11 incb long 22 mm open end wrench. The sensor is reached just behind and below the pass side half shaft inner boot. Very easy compared to what I had to go through with my old Loyale (under and the sensor still hard to get at and work on). 2) Results: silk smooth idle and what seems like better acceleration (not absolutely sure of that since I rarely put my foot to the floor). 3) Not driven enough to measure imporvement in fuel mileage yet. But i got 15.5 miles a US gallon for the last 121 kilometers (stop and go city driving and short distances) before the sensor replacement. I EXPECT improvement. Will report back. ONE LAST THING: I was surprised to find the old sensor tip relatively clean and with a ligh tan color similar to what a spark plug looks like when evey thing is fine in the related cylinder. Black soot in the tail pipe but not on the sensor!!?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SmashPDX Posted September 28, 2002 Share Posted September 28, 2002 I think the ezB software is just screwing up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gbrand Posted September 29, 2002 Share Posted September 29, 2002 If you use the arrow symbols-those above the comma and period on the key board(used in HTML a lot), the EZ board software thinks you are using HTML and will strike your messsage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frag Posted September 30, 2002 Share Posted September 30, 2002 No more soot in the tail pipe after 125 kilometers. Better fuel mileage if I trust the fuel gauge needle. But will have to make a more precise calculation when I fill her up. Idle speed also came back to the standard value of 700 rpm after having been 50 to 75 rpm lower since the beginning of summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Speedwagon Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 Do O2 sensors wear out after awhile? Or do they only need replacement if something has gone wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frag Posted October 2, 2002 Share Posted October 2, 2002 I'm getting more and more evidence that O2 sensors are a wear item and that they should be replaced after a while (Canadian Tires says 50,000 kilometers).I would say between 60 to 80,000 kilometers or until black soot appears in the tail pipe and fuel milleage begins to dwindle. My experience is that their performance can be below par and not trigger a Check Engine light. Telltale signs: soot in the tail pipe, slightly rougher idle, dwindling gas mileage. When I replaced it on my former Loyale, I had all kinds of improvements and had gotten no CEL. I think this is true for the front O2 sensor which monitors the air fuel ratio. My opinion is that the rear one should only be replaced when it triggers a CEL. All it seems to do is monitor the effectiveness of the Catalytic converter. Relacing it before it triggers a CEL would serve no purpose. Not replacing the front one in time and driving with an overly rich mixture (dont know why a tired O2 sensor seems never to produce too lean a mixture) can shorten the life of the cat, wash off the protecting oil film on the cylinders walls, contaminate the oil and cost you for unnecessaryt fuel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frag Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 O2 sensor replacement without a CEL = 1) No more soot in the tail pipe 2) Smoother idle. A bit faster also. 3) Better fuel mileage: 14 liters for 100km instead of 15.5 before the replacement. City driving, stop and go, short distances. 4) Maybe better acceleration, but not absolutely sure of that. 5) Not very expensive: around 50$ US for a universal one. 6) Able to make replacement from above on 96 Legacy = very easy. Details on former post. Hope that can help someone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest SmashPDX Posted October 4, 2002 Share Posted October 4, 2002 I'll archive this in a couple of days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest St Nickolas Posted October 8, 2002 Share Posted October 8, 2002 The typical failure mode for an O2 sensor is a slow deterioration of the signal over time or mileage. They can be far enough gone to cause trouble (low mileage, odd engine characteristics), but not bad enough to trip the check engine light. Sometimes you can test their output. Using a high impedence meter (usually any digital meter), read the signal wire. 2 wire and 3 wire units are 'self heating' the 2 wire has a signal and a power wire for the resistive heater. 3 wire units include a ground. The signal should be 0-1 V DC and when hot (they aren't used when the engine is cold) and stay very near some set value (0.45, 0.5 0.55V DC or thereabouts). The fuel injection computer should manipulate the injectors for the right mixture about as fast as most meters are. So you shouldn't see much if any variation on your meter. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frag Posted October 8, 2002 Share Posted October 8, 2002 Hi Nick, I suspect that what happens to a tired sensor is not so much that it's output range is diminished (at both ends or at one of them) but that the rate at which it reacts to change in the oxygen content of the exhaust gets slower and slower. I'm not sure the test you're referring to would spot that. All I know is that the real time data on the sensor provided by my OBDScan from Harrison did'nt detect anything wrong with the volt range of the sensor (it does'nt give a mean value but follows the volt output fluctuations of the sensor (hard to read with normal eyes, but you can detect the max and min value. That's why I propose to rely mainly on easy to spot symptoms to diagnose an out of spec sensor that has not triggered a CEL yet. This is of course nothing but a mixture of experience, theory and opinion on my part. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest St Nickolas Posted October 11, 2002 Share Posted October 11, 2002 Yes Gille, The range doesn't change (0-1 V DC), but the speed of the output does. I wasn't at all clear. I still think looking at the output on a digital meter can help assure a proper diagnosis. A good sensor should be acting in nanoseconds, a bad sensor in milliseconds. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaapH Posted October 22, 2002 Share Posted October 22, 2002 Thats my question. IS the original one just expensive? What other sensors do fit/work? I just checked at my dealer here in Europe 1 Subaru O2sensor costs $220 ! Might get one from the us? (I have 96 Outback) Big issue here is the MAP sensor. The dealers are replacing those because they seem to 'wear' without triggering a check engine light. Same anywhere else? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Frag Posted October 23, 2002 Share Posted October 23, 2002 Many companies make universal (you have to splice them into the existing connection) they mke even dedicated sensors (with the connector already in place) at a lesser price than the OEM. Bosch and Niehoff are two of them. How do they compare to the OEM one? I don't know. I just presume they are made the same way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Legacy777 Posted October 24, 2002 Share Posted October 24, 2002 I'm goin to throw this in archives in the end of the week if everyone is done.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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