Re: [xj-s] Any magic to removing the Oxygen Sensors?

[Edwin Hyatt <eahyatt@icanect.net>]

Just to make sure we are on the same page here, when you say 'pull harder', you
are trying to turn the sensor anticlockwise, right?

Ed

Derek Berquist wrote:

> Okay, I gotta tell you, I'm a mechanical beginner.  About the most I've done
> on previous cars has been changing sparkplugs and I once replaced a blown
> head gasket.  Both on a much simpler car.
>
> Now I'm just trying to convince myself that I shouldn't be to intimidated
> and should just start on the easier things first.  I've just, for the first
> time in my life, driven a car up on to a ramp.  Even that was nerve
> wracking.
> (The suggestion in "the book" of using 2x6's to extend the ramp works great.
> I would have been puzzling over that one for a while.)
>
> The first thing I'm doing is changing the oxygen sensors.  And I can't get
> the
> things to budge with the wrench.  I'm afraid of pulling to hard and tearing
> apart the whole manifold!  (Should I be concerned about that?)
>
> I'm leery of using WD-40 or Liquid Wrench or the like.  It is after all an
> electrical part, and this is the exhaust manifold!  Wouldn't it run the risk
> of igniting the next time it heats up?
>
> I'm inspired by the wealth of information that is available.  I've obtained
> the
> Haynes manual, and even more valuable the "Experience in a Book."  Plus I've
> been reading the exchanges here for the last week.  All this has helped to
> give me a little confidence.  Any tips would be appreciated.  Even if the
> answer is "pull harder."
>
> '85 xj-s  60k
>
> Derek Berquist
> dberquist@marmen.com

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