Haven't actually eyeballed it on the car yet; so I will ask the question first. According to the Haynes manual, you have to remove the intake manifold in order to remove the knock sensor. Is this true? and how much work is it to remove the manifold?

 

zzzasy

'98 obw 2.5

No need to remove intake. It's mounted with a single 12mm (maybe 13 or 14), just to the drivers side below the throttle body. Just be sure to torque it to 24Nm or 17 Ft/lbs. Over torqueing can damage the sensor.

 

If Josh reads this, he has pictures in his posts which show the sensor. Maybe do a forum search on knock sensor.

thanks, and I will do the search.

 

 

zzzasy

Second question. How do you torque something with a wrench?

 

zzzasy

Knock Sensor search result from USMB

 

Torque Wrench

 

Good Luck

Thanks, had just run across the pictures and was coming back to thank everyone for the help. I was under the impression that I needed a wrench to get to it, but I see that a spocket is what I need. Again, thanks for the advice and assistance.

 

zzzasy