help installing knock sensor
 

I GOT THE OLD SENSOR OUT

http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/v...am1/knock3.jpg

BUT WHEN IM TRYING TO INSTALL THE NEW SENSOR IT KEEPS ON HITTING THIS METAL BRACKET

http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/v...eam1/knock.jpg

http://i694.photobucket.com/albums/v...am1/knock2.jpg

CAN'T GET THE SENSOR TO GO IN STRAIGHT ANY IDEAS?

get some pliers and bend it just a little bit to fit

Damn dude, I'd recommend you look into some nitrile gloves :lol:

We remove that bracket on every FD we work on, it's a pita to work around and useless.

The plier method should work for ya.

thanks for the response im going to try it today after work, i tried using gloves but it seems way easier to work on the fd without them you know all those tight fits & i drop less bolts without them :)

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Maybe we can get you to stop yelling at people ;)

I plan on replacing mine soon, is it of any benefit to install it in the rear housing instead of the front?

you wont have to bend that stupid bracket :)

the rear tends to blow first due to the uneven LIM runners allowing more air/leaner AFRs to the rear rotor. That is one of the advantages of the GZ piece :)

Can't bend the bracket its too thick! Any other ideas? Can I just cut the wire in half and connect a longer wire to mount the sensor in the other housing?

What about removing the bracket?

every time something goes right another thing goes wrong, i got the sensor in the pulling the bracket back about half an inch using a wrench & a flat head screw driver, while trying to connect the sensor i saw the wire was too short! i look @ the part #'s for the sensors & there different! fd# 01M16-021 other sensor 11L26-002 so tomorrow i'm gonna go back to the shop i bought it from and see if they have the correct sensor.. thanks for your help guys

that is pretty funny because I went through EXACTLY what you are right now. I had trouble installing the replacement sensor because of that stupid bracket (what is it?, I didn't even bother to check). Mine was tough because the zip tie end was hitting so it wouldn't screw in. Once I got it in, like you, the wire was too short. This was fine because my wire broke from the connector and I was repairing it anyways so I just added length and shielded the wire. I had a lot more headache even after all this when my problem (CEL) didn't go away. Turns out the replacement sensor was bad.

and I need to get a pic of what my old one looked like, lol...didn't have half the stuff that yours has inside it (the old one).

here's a pic of my old one. Surprisingly it worked for a few years but gave up recently.

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3621...73581f834e.jpg
https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544...fe2fbb5851.jpg

^ thats pretty cool... i always wondered what was inside those things.

yep, pretty simple design. The resistor that you can see is what went bad on mine.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3544/...2fbb5851_b.jpg