Yeah 02 sensors can be difficult to get out, I was surprised the impact gun didn't strip it out, Try getting it out when the exhaust is hot, just make sure to wear gloves so you don't get burned. They tend to come out easier when the pipe around them is hot and expanded some. The MAP sensor should be on the back of the intake manifold, the MAF (Mass Air Flow) sensor is the one that you would find on the air intake tube. It would be before the throttle plates, where a MAP sensor will be found after the throttle plates. (Its Manifold Absolute Pressure) so it gives a reading of intake manifold pressure compared to atmospheric pressure. Hence the "Absolute" part.
So, there's actual carbon build up inside the Purge valve? When it comes to wiring diagrams, I post them mostly so people can compare the wire coloring to the component they are looking at. For the Purge valve I could see a 2-wire component with one green wire and one white wire. So, you can do the same for the MAP sensor, although the location I see is not the one in the picture, where something appears to be missing.
This vehicle has a MAP and a MAF sensor.
If you can't get the front Oxygen sensor out for a back pressure test, if you're worried about the Cat, you can put a vacuum gauge on the intake manifold and it should read around 18- 20in of vacuum at idle, roughly. So, if the cat is clogged (or restricted exhaust) vacuum will lower.
But a back pressure test at the front oxygen sensor location at idle should not be more than 1-1.5psi max. If it's higher or jumps way up on a throttle snap, you'll know the cat is having issues, I will usually back up a pressure test with a bore scope down the exhaust to visually see the condition of cat.
These are a couple of pictures I took of a vehicle that was setting a P0420, Bank 1 Cat efficiency code, even though you can see through this cat, it wasn't storing oxygen like it should and therefore was not able to burn off the combustion gases. I was surprised by this one, I expected to see it melted down more, but when comparing it to the new one, there was a definite difference. This was caused by a bad front Oxygen sensor (A/F-air/fuel ratio sensor) on this V6 Nissan. I think it would have probably passed a back pressure test, but this was verified by monitoring the rear Oxygen sensor voltage, it was fluctuating like I described in my other post, the voltage wasn't steady at all. And it would set a P0420 code pretty much on the first drive after erasing the codes.
What is the Bank 1 Sensor 2 Oxygen sensor voltage doing when the engine is up to operating temp and just cruising under part throttle?
Thats what you really need to see, of course, though you need to be running on the engine and not electric motor. So, under throttle load it should switch over.
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Thursday, May 2nd, 2024 AT 2:09 PM