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Can you diagnose a bad O2 sensor with DataMaster?

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Old Jun 28, 2004 | 07:40 PM
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Can you diagnose a bad O2 sensor with DataMaster?

I am thinking one or both of my O2 sensors may be bad. Is there a way to diagnose this using DataMaster? Even if there isn't a definite way to tell if they are bad or good, is there something I should be watching and comparing to point me in the right direction? Thanks.
Old Jun 28, 2004 | 08:08 PM
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Yes....when warm the O2s should swing between ~80 and 900mv .....if one or both are way off that its bad. Thats non-WOT. At WOT they will read in the mid to high 800s.
Old Jun 28, 2004 | 08:09 PM
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Originally posted by gb95zconv
Yes....when warm the O2s should swing between ~80 and 900mv .....if one or both are way off that its bad. Thats non-WOT. At WOT they will read in the mid to high 800s.
By way off do you mean that one or both of them will be way outside the 80-900 mV range?
Old Jun 28, 2004 | 08:33 PM
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Not outside....just not much swing from the 450mv centerline. If you seen me your uni file I could take alook at it if your unsure.
Old Jun 28, 2004 | 09:05 PM
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Originally posted by gb95zconv
Not outside....just not much swing from the 450mv centerline. If you seen me your uni file I could take alook at it if your unsure.
Thanks for the offer. I am going to look over the logs, but I might send you one or two of my files to look over as well.
Old Jun 28, 2004 | 09:22 PM
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yes, you can diagnose bad O2's with a scanner. I burnt mine up running open headers. They were not getting up to temp. When i looked at them on the scanner they wern't moving much off of 450mV. Every once in awhile they would jump to 0. And it would dump in alot of fuel. I bought heated O2's and put the exhaust on and runs like a champ now.
Old Jun 29, 2004 | 12:10 AM
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gb95zconv - emailed you my .uni file. Thanks again.
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