I've bought the sensors before locally I just ordered it online for less
$$$. I don't know how it is over in the Neo-California west side, but
over here on the east side, all they care about is getting your $$$ for
shoving a probe up your tailpipe, and if you live outside Spokane county
they don't even require emissions testing. My Dad once took his
Plymouth Acclaim with 250k on it in to be smogged. The guy in the smog
booth could barely see the monitor in the smog station to see what speed
he was doing on the rollers from all the smoke coming out the tailpipe
(Mitsu V6) and it still passed.
The fact that any place in the USA prohibits you from working on your
own car to the point of banning parts from being sold unless you're a
state licensed mechanic... well, I won't get into it on this list. I
understand smog testing, but people should be able to fix their own cars
to be able to pass smog in the first place.
I'll just swap the O-ring over, I have enough projects that involve
soldering and heat shrink tubing coming up as is on this truck. I wish
I knew what the o-ring size is on the speedometer adapter, but that
seems to be unknown. I just wanted to give people a heads up just in
case. If I could find a female wiring pigtail to match the male end
that goes into the stock sensor, I'd just solder it up into an adapter
pigtail and not have to modify the wiring harness of the truck.
MattB
Dustin Williams wrote:
>
> I just remembered that when I thought mine was bad the auto parts
> store told me that in Washington those can only be serviced by a state
> licenced shop, of which there were only three in the south sound. If
> you do need to replace it you may need to head over to Idaho if you
> wanted one local.
>
> On Jun 11, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Matt Beazer <teseract@moparhowto.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Warning to those of you who consider buying a speed/distance sensor
>> from Rock auto -- the Airtex part they have listed is the one for a
>> newer vehicle with the new style connector (the one with the orange
>> locking tab), not the old type on the older trucks like my '95 -- it
>> comes with a wiring pigtail and some heat shrink tubing, I guess they
>> expect you to hack your old connector off and solder in a new one
>> under the vehicle with hot solder dropping in your lap!
>>
>> I think I'll just pull the o-ring since mine works fine and keep the
>> new sensor for when one goes out on my '98 Neon or '98 Voyager...
>>
>> MattB
>>
>
>
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