Re: Seized O2 sensor remnants me too

Jul 04, 2003 2 Replies


Yess Sir I want to change my O2 sensor to but I ame scared like hell this is


>going to happen to me to on my 88 fox any ideas out there how to loosen it
>before breaking it to smitereens!!! Thanks moony.
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>> After spending 2 hrs on the friggen thing...I have had it....
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>> The O2 sensor on my '90 Jetta Carat was fried and I thought that since it
>> was in the cat and not in the manifold, removing it would be no >issue.....I
>> was wrong
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>> The top half of the sensor broke apart and left me with the nut portion of
>> the sensor. I can't get my socket up onto the nut because of the angle in
>> which the O2 sits.
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>> Any Ideas???
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>> Thanks,
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>> Pete
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>> 1990 Jetta GL Wolfsburg Edition (Jude)
>> 1989 Jetta Carat (Un-named, but open to suggestions!)
>> 1968 Beetle GLX (Rhett)
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>> "It's not a car, It's a Volkswagen"
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Jim B.


Or $25 at a local muffler shop!

- Pete

So I guess you go it done! On my '89 (the sensor is on the head), I place the closed end of a 22 mm (I think) wrench over the nut and hammer away (using a pipe to make up the distance. Works like a charm. Don't know how this'll work with an O2 sensor on the cat. though.

Darryl.

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