On my Olds, I had to use a CrowsFoot wrench, it looks like the
cut off end of a standard open end wrench, but has a square hole
in the stub for a socket wrench to plug into. They are expensive, but
it's the tool for the job.
ALSO, you HAVE to use Anti-Size compound on it, not just any stuff, but
the Hi-Temp anti-size. It is graphite powder with hollow glass beads
in it that keep it from sizeing up. Avaib at better parts stores. Just
don't touch the business end of the new sensor, or let any anti-size
goop get there, or else you will be buying a new sensor. I'd just
leave it alone till it dies. Maybe some good rusted bolt goop will
help getting the old one off, when the old one is off, fire the
engine up for a moment to blow the rust out of the threads, but not
run long enough to heat up the pipes.
> Subject: DML: Re: 1992 V8 O2 sensor
> On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, The Christians wrote:
> > I have read some of your stuff through th DML and you seem to know alot
> > about the Dakota truck. I have a 1992 V8 auto 2X2 long bed-w-100k miles
> > on it. It has been absolutely problem free. I have a performance
> > computer on it otherwise everything is stock (although I would like to
> > do some mods to it$$$???). I have at this late date decided to change
> > the O2 sensor and MAP sensor. TheO2 sensor seems almost impossible to
> > get to. A standard O2 sensor socket will not work. Do you have any
> > suggestions PLEASE?
> > Howard Christian
> > Wilmington, NC
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