No, sorry to say, it's not that easy.
It's actually even easier.
Remove sensor, install cable "sleeve" with gear. One little screw. About 30 seconds if you stop for a cold one halfway through.
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Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.
— William of Ockham, from Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi
Roughly paraphrased into modern English, and applied to figuring out what's wrong with your car:
The simplest explanation that fits all the facts is probably the right one. | 
