I hear everyone talk about knock sensors and i could never figure out what it is, or what it does. Please help me out because this may have something to do with my dying tranny (auto...yea yea you know the deal w/ auto's) Thanx
maxperformance

 

Are you just lazy?

I found this article in about 2 minutes...

...sheesh...





Your assignment is at the bottom, I expect in my office before the next class.

 

BTW, a knock sensor will have no affect either way on the tranny.

 

the Knock sensor listens (I don't know how the hell) for knocking/pinging noise in your engine. When it detects this it slows timing in your engine therefore causing it to lose some low-end power. The knock sensor is about $157 at the dealer and i highly suggest doing it yourself since they asked me for about $300 for labor. I told them to stick their labor up their a$@ and to just order the part. when the KS arrived it took about 25 minutes and 500+ scratches on my hands the damn thing is about a mile down your engine somewhere. theirs a thread goin around with pics and directions i'm usually too lazy to give you all the directions but you'll need about a 14 inch extension for your ratchet. a little brother with skinny arms might do the trick too!!