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Old Sep 11, 2000 | 09:06 PM
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Did I fry my O2 sensor?

When I swapped in the 350 my O2 sensor wire connector was dangling against my headers and pretty much melted. Could the wire have touched the headers and fried the sensor? By the way my car has an EXTREMELY eratic idle and stalls frequently, but I still have the old computer(LO3). Now it's a 350 vortec with the 670 tbi and a 214/224 - .471/.491 cam.

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Old Sep 11, 2000 | 09:13 PM
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I believe that wire is shielded by some special braiding around the wire. I'd get a new one.
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Old Sep 11, 2000 | 09:24 PM
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Birmass,

Yup, it's probably time for a replacement, anyway.

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Old Sep 11, 2000 | 09:28 PM
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IF you have headers, now is a good time to move up to a heated oxygen sensor.

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