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I hope you are not in the rust belt! Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Thu, 20 Feb 2014 11:08:17
In Reply to: O2 Sensor Removal, 900 Commem, Thu, 20 Feb 2014 06:16:53 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
Imho, this is probably the worst job I have ever had to do on a car. I'm sure there are worse jobs - I just have not encountered one yet.
Go ahead and buy the right o2 sensor tool if you want. It is useful to install the old one, but a wrench works just fine to install. A $5-10 tool will do fine if that is all you plan to use it for.
More important - buy a thread chaser (tap) to clean up the threads before the new one goes in.
In terms of removal... if you live in the rustbelt, I would not even bother trying to remove it from under the car... Yours is busted, so you can just saw it off and put a socket on it... even so I went at ours that way with a 4' breaker bar with a torch, liquid wrench, and freeze off penetrator... complete waste of time. Take the pipe off the car, drill out the center of the damn thing and carefully cut 3 slots center out (without getting the threads!) with a jigsaw + metal blade and chisel inward (I tried the vice first - ha)... then chase the threads and reassemble... this took about an hour and worked.
An O2 sensor tool is totally useless to remove the sensor. They flex tremendously. I have been told that there is a $90 o2 sensor tool (only available by mail order) that is beefy enough to be useful (if the sensor might come off anyway with a wrench), but I tried using a cheaper decently beefy looking one, and reinforcing it with a hose clamp... no luck! If you have a good sensor in a bad pipe (I've been there also), once you have the pipe out of the car the solution is to take a sawzall, then dremel, then chisel, to the pipe + bung.
In the future, 9 times out of 10, this is a job I would take to my indy. Just not worth the frustration!
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