SledgeHammer

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?

abecedarian

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.

toytech76

Dont try and fool it. It prevents damage to your motor. Try to eliminate it and you are asking for trouble

SledgeHammer

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.

toytech76

In that case, why bother with it at all? Run it into the ground then put a 3.4 in it

abecedarian

if you lived closer to me, I'd give you a few feet of LMR-200 cable you could use to replace the cable.

SledgeHammer

I've got a 302/c6 ford out there just looking for a new home. I'm still weighing all my options.

abecedarian

302 in front of a C6?... interesting....
that's like finding a 305 in front of a TH400.

86tuning

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.

SledgeHammer

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.