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Old 07-07-2007, 01:36 PM
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if your melts the wires coming out of the harness, and you cut them out and solder new wire in?
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Yep shouldnt hurt any thing, i just used some gm style heat shrink butt connectors on mine and they work great! Use your preference!!!
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damn cause I just did and my car is still slightly bucking while cruising. its annoying as hell.
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plug in a scanner and see if you are getting a good reading from the O2 sensor and that it change as you would expect or jumping up and down...
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I tryed to extend the factory o2's when i first installed my headers. They started giving problems almost immediatly after, they kept giving me low voltage codes, i ended up just going down to the autopart store and getting Bosch 13111's. The Bosch 13111's are Corvette rear o2's, alot of guys use them...
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I tryed to extend the factory o2's when i first installed my headers. They started giving problems almost immediatly after, they kept giving me low voltage codes, i ended up just going down to the autopart store and getting Bosch 13111's. The Bosch 13111's are Corvette rear o2's, alot of guys use them...
13111 VETTE REARS HERE...Great O2's.
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do you guys have the GM Part number for the Bosch 13111's?
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Butt conectors all the way. Just heat shrink em
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you could have had a cold solder joint that could cause some connectivity issues
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I extended a set before and they worked fine for a long time. When i swapped them the last time though I just went with the 13111's, they come with long wires.
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i used the shrink connectors and im gettin low voltage codes and a rich idle.....i ordered a set of extensions and im hoping the new ones do fine......



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