How do you fool a knock sensor?? Need some electrical help
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How do you fool a knock sensor?? Need some electrical help
Ok Guys here it is the only code I'm gettin on my 3.0slow is code 52. So after reading all the posts on here about bad wires and everything else I started to check the wires going down to the sensor and they were very brittle but looked hooked up. So I got to movin them around a little and discovered its not even hooked up under there. So what can I do to fool this thing into thinking it is still hooked up? I'm just not willing to pull the intake just to put it back on after all it has 174,000 on it. Got any Ideas like on the egr resistor trick?
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you don't fool it.
it is a piezo-electric transducer that responds to high-pitched sounds from the engine and sends a signal to the ecu. the ecu expects to hear something from it and if it doesn't, throws a code.
even when there is no knock, there is noise picked up by the ks, and the ecu needs to hear that too.
it is a piezo-electric transducer that responds to high-pitched sounds from the engine and sends a signal to the ecu. the ecu expects to hear something from it and if it doesn't, throws a code.
even when there is no knock, there is noise picked up by the ks, and the ecu needs to hear that too.
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This kinda stuff is new to me. As far as damaging the engine I'm not the least worried about destroying that turd of a motor. Might swap the motor out any way.
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That's nice, but a new wire from the dealer was around ten bucks last time I bought one, and came with the connectors and stuff already installed Of course, that doesn't include the intake plenum and manifold gaskets.
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Hey thats the way I got the motor and trans. I would rather go with the t-5 on there or the very least an AOD with a lock up converter. I've got a 3.0 camry engine sitting in the floor. I'm thinkin about robbing the ks off of it and see what happens when I just attach it to the side of the upper plenum somewhere.
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