Hi All,
I need help to check whether the oxygen sensor is bad or not. Recently I have check light on with P0420 code. After consulting with your guys in this NG, I decided to check the post-oxygen sensor connectivity. First I followed the steps descibed in Haynes repair manual, test the oxygen sensor heater, it reads 14ohms which is between 11-17 ohms, the book says that it is good. Then I tried to test the voltage at the harness side between black and red wires(the book says black and pink wires where there was no voltage existed), it read ~7V. The book says that the voltage should be the battery voltage which is ~13V, my question is what it means? Do I have a bad electrical connection between the harness and oxygen sensor? Next, I did backprobe by inserting a pin along the black wire at the back of the harness connector, then started the engine, it run about 5min, I noticed nothing(the book say that I should read 100-900 millivolts). I am wondering whether I did wrong with the tests. Could someone point out what I did wrong here? How could I make sure that the oxygen is bad before go-ahead to have it replaced? The other thing is: after I cancelled the OBD II code, it took over
2-months for the check light to come back, and I drive 60miles per day to go to work. What happened here? Thanks. wm