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Old Aug 13, 2011 | 10:36 AM
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Causes? What to check? Also with my scanner it shows no activity from the knock sensor.
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Old Aug 17, 2011 | 09:25 PM
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Update. After finding no voltage going into the knock sensor harness I tapped into a 5 volt source. However the codes still come up for low input. Then today I installed a new knock sensor harness, the one under the intake. Checked the voltage and then went for a drive. Sure enough the codes came up again. I need a wiring diagram for a ls1. All the schematics I get here and online don't show me where all the wiring goes to and comes from. I know there are two knock sensors two signal wires. Also one power wire and one single wire coming from the pcm. Where does the second signal wire go to? I am all confused.
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Old Aug 18, 2011 | 09:31 AM
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I've got that page already. It doesn't show what I need. Thanks though.
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What I want to know is where does the knock sensors get there power from? The plug going from the pcm there is a blue wire, signal wire and 1 grey wire, power source. On the pcm side there are just the 2 blue signal wires. Where do these all tap into?
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They are 1 wire resonant sensors.
"power" comes from the PCM through those wires.

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