Installing air/fuel gauge
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Installing air/fuel gauge
I installed an air/fuel gauge that I got from 818camaro95 into my car, and all it was doing was reading Rich. So I put a multimeter on signal wire and it's reading over 2 volts. The sensor I'm using is a Bosch heated 02 sesnor for a zr1 corvette. I know the range should be between .050 and 1.00 volts for the gauge to read. Basically what I'm asking is do you think it's a bad o2 sensor? It's a carb car so it's not hooked up to a pcm to trigger a ses light.
-Jim
-Jim
#2
Re: Installing air/fuel gauge
Since it's a carbed car, try leaning out the idle mixture to see what happens before you spend the money on a new O2 sensor. If you can get it to read correctly at idle, then you can move on to getting the cruise and power enrichment worked out.
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Re: Installing air/fuel gauge
Those AFR gauges that use a narrowband O2 sensor are about as accurate as a weather vane is at telling you wind speed (i.e. they just point in the direction of the wind).
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Re: Installing air/fuel gauge
Originally Posted by 1987IROC350
But they look good at night in a pillar pod
Yeah, those things are strictly for show, you can't gain any remotely useful information from them other than being to tell if the 02's are working or not.
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Re: Installing air/fuel gauge
Originally Posted by thirdgenrallysport
new ones out are supposed to be accurate to within 0.1
Edit: In response to the quoted post above, it could be compared to an oil pressure gauge. The gauge itself could be accurate to within ¼#, but if the sending unit is accurate to +-10#, you wouldn't know if the readout was registering accurate #s.
Last edited by A/G; 04-20-2006 at 08:30 AM.
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