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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: oxygen sensor
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.000411.18272@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 00:04:11 GMT
- References: <BvvHJJ.9qK@ssesco.com> <1992Oct11.203434.27766@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <Bw0IKw.Jw@ssesco.com>
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- In article <Bw0IKw.Jw@ssesco.com> elmquist@pez.ssesco.com (Chris Elmquist) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct11.203434.27766@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> chohan@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Harpal Chohan) writes:
- >>In article <BvvHJJ.9qK@ssesco.com> elmquist@pez.ssesco.com (Chris Elmquist) writes:
-
- >>>It would be nice to diagnosis the O2 sensor as bad before trying to pull
- >>>it out...
-
- >>You can hook a voltmeter to its output and observe how fast it reacts
- >>when hot. Should fluctuate between 0.4 to 0.7 V at a fairly brisk
- >>rate. Introduce unmeasured air into the system by pulling the dipstick
- >>or the oil filler cap, and see if the voltage drops immediately. Sluggish,
- >>or no response, should be fairly indicative of a non-functioning sensor.
-
- >So, the more O2, the lower the voltage out from the sensor ? Or visa-versa ?
-
- i don't remember the relationship; i have a chart at home, which i'll bring
- in tomorrow, and i'll post the information unless someone beats me to it.
-
- >Mine (my engine) seems to misbehave more before it is fully warmed but
- >after it has stepped the idle down from the higher speed cold idle. It
- >is during this warmup phase that it runs the worst. What kind of O2
- >sensor output would be expected by the computer during this time...? is
- >the computer even looking at the O2 sensor then ?
-
- O2 sensors need to warm up before they take effect. single wire
- sensors take a couple of minutes; three wire sensors take effect
- in about 30 seconds. most well designed fool injection systems
- will run in their open loop mode for a brief period of time while
- warming up before they start to make use of the sensor data. i'd
- guess that your engine has warmed up enough to be in closed loop
- from the sounds of it, but not being familiar with the car, this is
- only a guess.
-
- richard
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