Cleaning O2 sensors????

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Jul 19, 2003 | 04:00 PM

horist

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Cleaning O2 sensors????

I just pulled my front O2s... passenger side (side I was having a problem with) was black w/carbon buildup... (this is within 1000 miles of heads/cam/intake/headers)

Driver side was black at base but tip was still ok....

I swapped both with new sensors... is there any way to clean O2 sensors? Any way to get rid of the carbon buildup w/out hurting the sensors??

Jul 19, 2003 | 11:06 PM

waverider

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Re: Cleaning O2 sensors????

I once heard of using a propane torch.

Jul 20, 2003 | 02:56 AM

Jabroni

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Re: Cleaning O2 sensors????

It may be so degraded that it's not worth saving at this point. Just a thought.

Jul 20, 2003 | 11:50 AM

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Re: Cleaning O2 sensors????

The local used car dealers claim they can clean up a dirty O2 with brake fluid and get rid of O2 related SES lights etc. I have no idea if it would work.

Jul 4, 2007 | 10:46 PM

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Jul 5, 2007 | 01:34 AM

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you cant clean them....their very fragile and arent designed to be cleaned....ive tested this, "docs" tested this....you cant clean them and if a stealership tells you that their full of bs