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Old 06-17-2008, 09:33 AM
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Weird looking knock sensor
The knock sensor on my current engine is bad so I pulled the knock sensor from my old engine but it looks kind of odd:





Anyone else seen one like this before? Should I just go and get one from ebay instead?
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Old 06-17-2008, 10:44 AM
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I'm pretty sure that's a normal knock sensor, but it went through something so hot that it melted the plastic off of the sides

Has the engine that you pulled this from been in a fire?
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Old 06-17-2008, 11:01 AM
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I had a friend that blew a coolant line on his car. The overheat caused the KS to melt like that as well.

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Old 06-17-2008, 11:28 AM
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No fire, but one of the heater core coolant lines did blow before. Guess I'll just order a sensor off ebay.
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Definatly melted.
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Wow, is that custom? Sweet mod! lol
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Old 06-17-2008, 03:49 PM
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yeah it melted
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Old 06-17-2008, 04:09 PM
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Did you get a Knock Sensor code? LoLzzz

Damn, I've never seen one that bad.
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Old 06-17-2008, 05:17 PM
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Yea, mine looks just like that...still works perfectly fine, though.

I imagine it happened when I overheated the **** out of my motor everyday for a good year. Good ol bulletproof VQ...
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