Well today I learned that there is an easy way of installing an O2 sensor and the wrong way.....I aparently chose the former and did not know it.

Now I don't know if the sensor just fought me tooth and nail, but I will tell you this......it shouldn't be this hard.

As a matter of fact right now I have a good buddy of mine welding on a new bung for the new sensor on the exhaust pipe. Yeah imagine that, I had to take the whole damn pipe out to get at it.

Let the mockery begin...........

 

lol as $8 oxygen sensor wrench/socket from autozone would have gotten it out in 15 minuits.....

 

unfortunately this isn't a case of not having the right tools........the damn thing was seized like a ****.

I'll have to say that even in this worst case scenario, it's pretty damn easy to pull the exhaust pipe from the manifold down. And a hell of a lot easier to work on when you don't have a lift.

yeah I wish I didn't have to find that out.

O2 sensor socket: $8

Bosch O2 Sensor: $61.75

5 1/2 hours of blood sweat and tears: PRICELESS

 

you're talking about a 1.8t right? ya got a bosch univ one when i did mine, the wiring took much longer than the sensor side. of course i have a 2.8 and it was the post cat one. i can totally understand why it's seized if it's a 1.8t. so i guess you chopped off the old bung and welded a new one on. that must of sucked lol

 

i bet if you hit it with some PB blaster and let it sit for the 5 hours it took you, you could have saved all that effort. eh such is life though. at least you won in the end

 

Would you be surprised to hear that I have the 2.8? Mine was the post cat as well, bank 2, the wiring was easy but yes out with the old and weld on the new.....all in all after getting everything out it went quite well.

It was the uncomfortable time spent under the car trying to break that mother loose that I wish I could have traded. It was only after conceding defeat that I resorted to pulling the pipe, had I just done it when I knew it wouldn't budge I would have saved myself a ton of time.

Live and learn as they say.........

 

Half a can of CRC 5-56 wouldn't cut it, even with a healthy 4 foot long breaker bar I got a little more than a budge and that's when I started rounding off the old sensor.

 

wow that's nuts. it was bank 1 for me but it was cake. good thing im changing the cat so i'll just cu the wires lol