[Shop-talk] What fun - O2 sensor

[Steven Trovato]

Mark,

What tool are you using to attempt this?  There are a number of 
different styles of sockets, and sometimes one works where the other 
doesn't.  I bought this "Alltrade 648625 Oxygen Sensor Socket Tool 
Set" at Amazon for $27.   The flatter one fit where the others 
wouldn't.  I wasn't working on an S10, so as they say, YMMV.

-Steve Trovato
strovato at optonline.net


At 12:23 AM 1/3/2012, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>I need to replace a failed oxygen sensor in my old S10.  Should be
>a simple task - fat chance! There's just so little clearance that when I
>do get a wrench or socket securely on it there's no way to get enough
>torque applied to break it loose.   Heat, penetrent in various combinations
>and cycles have not made it any easier.  Sheesh.
>
>Sorry, I just had to vent.
>
>mjb.
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