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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 05:15 AM
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O2 sensor placement

How far down, and what tube are you guys, with long tubes, installing your non-heated O2 sensors?
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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 08:51 AM
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It should go into the collector, not into an individual cylinder's primary tube.
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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 12:03 PM
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Driver's side TOP of the collector ...
http://www.celligent.com/tim/iroc/headers/DCP_0662.JPG

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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 04:09 PM
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Thanks guys. That pic looks like a heated O2 sensor, will it just take a little longer for my computer to go into closed loop since I have a non-heated sensor?
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Old Jan 15, 2003 | 07:52 PM
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Put in a heated O2 with long tubes. Don't sacrifice on this one. The sensor needs to be hot and when you move it that far away you are going to cause trouble ... even if you think everything is normal.

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