Guess who gets to pull the O2 housings??

**Chris GTO TT** · 09-19-2010, 09:51 PM

This guy...yup thats right went to replace the O2 sensors and the rear one fucked the bung up so at this point i'm pulling the housings and just going to replace them.

**bridge** · 09-19-2010, 09:57 PM

have fun! i broke a stud fri. i forgot to add heat to the equation after spraying pb blaster.

**Jeremy C** · 09-19-2010, 10:51 PM

you can't heli-coil it?

**Chris GTO TT** · 09-19-2010, 11:16 PM

nope brought all the threads from the housing out with it shit looks like a clean untapped bung LOL

**Jeremy C** · 09-20-2010, 01:09 AM

then you should still be able to heli-coil it. proper heli-coil requires you to tap the hole bigger then put the coil in. If it didn't take too much extra material there should be enough to tap it out. I had to tap heli coil all 3 of the trans mount holes due to them getting all buggered up from so many pulls.

**Chris GTO TT** · 09-20-2010, 01:58 AM

right but what O2 sensor would fit into that larger hole?

**VR4** · 09-20-2010, 02:01 AM

Get the right helicoil and it will work fine. Otherwise its pretty easy to pull the rear O2 housing

**Chris GTO TT** · 09-20-2010, 02:10 AM

This also gives me an excuse to gut the precats and fix the leaks at my down pipe. so its not a big deal really.

**Chris GTO TT** · 03-05-2011, 05:39 PM

So after 5 months my car is done, both O2 sensors replaced and replaced the motor mounts with poly mounts while I had it that far apart. The good news the new O2 Sensors seem to have fixed my light throttle hesitation at low rpms.