[V8] Fault code 2341

[dsaad at icehouse.net]

I don't think the length is going to change the performance of the sensor
(within reason of course) but if you do have to splice in wire, your connections
have to be good, and use teflon wire and a heat shield (like the OEM cable) if
you are near the exhaust system.
I prefer solder and heat shrink. Butt connectors and heat shrink work well too.

If you are going to switch to a Ford sensor, it would make sense to extend the
car harness down and put the mating Ford connector on it. This makes swapping
sensors easy - and they do go bad for various reasons. I went to the extreme of
putting both a Ford 3-wire and 4-wire connector on my extension so I could
easily try out different sensors. From my experiments, they all seem to work OK
- even the 4-wire with multiple sensing windows. (the OEM unit has three)


Dave

Quoting "Coleman, David" <David.Coleman at blackrock.com>:

> With all the talk of non-OE O2 sensors, and just to xpound on Keith's post,
> recall the proper O2 replacement, whatever the original application intended,
> is to keep the cable/wires near as possible to the factory length.
>
> FWIW,
> Davec
>
>
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> Sent: Fri Apr 15 18:27:40 2005
> Subject: Re: [V8] Fault code 2341
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> In a message dated 4/15/05 1:01:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> john at bysinger.net writes:
>
> > Reason we tested this one, is the ford part was $120 through the local
> > parts
> > shops, and $140 from the dealer...  didn't make sense to me either, with
> > ford being a dime a dozen you'd think the o2 would be cheap as well
> >
>
>  That for the exact part number, meaning with the exact length cable. The
> sensor itself probably matched about 10 Mazda apps and probably every one had
> the
> same connector.
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