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1:35 AM Ok i took the new sensor for a drive to Indian Head. For the first part it was fluctuating between 0 and 0.2. I messed a lot with the car in the parking lot there, after a Japanese guy got me really mad. He came in front of my car while i was eating and spat inches away from the car. So i did not feel like playing anymore. Good thing cause it was a bad day for playing there, the machines were really hungry.
The problem was with an error code not severe enough which i did not know how to clear. Once i did that, after about 10 minutes it started to behave differently. Still weird but better. In a way, very similar to the one i took aout. When i was accelerating was fluctuating between 0.7 and 0.8. When i was releasing the gas pedal it was going 0. The one i pulled out was doing the same but @8 when accelerating and i really don't remember if it was 0 flat or more for releasing gas pedal.
So my o2 sensor was not bad (180k) but needed a good tightening and a reset of that error code.
I don't know, since they both behave the same i figured the problem night be with the second sensor. I will replace that one tomorrow and see.
Other that the weird readings, it runs ok (on our way back) cause when i went i think it was going in open loop because of that error. And yes, i read on a forum some guy did not know how to force the ECM in open loop and i think i just discovered it, All you have to do is unplug the o2 sensor with ignition (and then plug it back in) without clearing the code (that BTW does not trigger a check engine light).
And yes these OBD II systems that have are still being used on newest vehicle have been defined in the 80s and are quite primitive and counter inatuitive though there are apps on phones and laptops and stuff that know better do decipher and interpret that data pulled out of car's computers.
10:01 Yesterday i rediscovered the big problem of dust falling from the wall next to battlezone. I once tried to cover the cracks newly created by Aylwin Construction, after fixing some holes. It was a trade in. New cracks for old holes. I tried to fix them with lines of silicon but i can reach only so far and can't risk climbing on the last rung of my puny ladder.
Staying outside at the car for hours, with wind blowing from that direction.
They have multiple vehicles with modified exhaust here and every time i post or even think of things they don't like they start it. From the wall stingy insulation dust, freshly broken from the tiny fibers get electrified (by breaking) and start flying around the building and from under door they get inside.
I believe the law does not allow modifications to stock vehicles to make them noisy. I mean, the manufacturers worked hard to design and add a muffler to the exhaust system and for that they sacrifice a few horse power to comply with the law and some people are building and selling those modifiers to make them noisy (again)?
You all can see in a naturally ventilated house (with no specialized fresh air intake) most fresh air comes from under main door, usually a dirty place.
Some of these vehicles are used by illegal immigrants for which the laws of this country are optional since they are illegal anyways and hired illegally (since they are not documented), paid cash with no tax contribution. BTW most of the workers at Aylwin looked illegals to me. Do they still have to go by the existing building codes? Not asking about a state certification of some kind.
Decibel level of 88 dB? Was that calculated by ear? Have you ever tried to talk to someone while they were using a hair drier or a blender? 






8:00 AM Two days ago i sprayed with contact cleaner the front of the two connectors for both oxygen sensors. For that i went in the parking lot at the street (left in this picture). WD40 Contact Cleaner dries very fast but i waited more than ten minutes before i plugged them.
But i sprayed them from front and all around neglecting the back where some of the dissolved stuff gathered possibly shorting the terminals after the cleaner dried.
Today i am waiting for a new sensor from Amazon. So this morning after hours of thought i went outside to correct that, suspecting that dirt was shorting the signal terminal to the ground one (and would make replacing of the sensor which is indeed shut also probably being shorted senseless and useless) but that stuff was stubborn, temperature outside is 45 degrees so i had to come back inside, search for a brush to help the solvent.
Nobody was outside at this hour and solvent smell did not come through the open door inside. When i was about done including about 5 minutes of drying and shut the hood two small people, pretendedly Mexican passed and he shook his head, vigorously a number of times, like saying "NO" in my direction though i did not say anything to them.
9:10 Now i read 0.45 volts at the connector and 1.275 on the scanner and i can't find a ground at sensor connector. Is my PCM fried?
10;20 The black BMW has thundered and i feel stingy dust in my eyes and throat.
10:25 Ok i finally understood how these things work. Most of the stuff i read before was about old style or narrow band sensors.
But after i plugged the sensor one more time and now i may have just fried it. I don't got anymore .45 volts at any of the pins. I get 12 volts on pin 5, 2.5 volts at 2 (or the other way around), and also can't find ground. Sensor is out for delivery.
10:50 I am wasting my time. Need to wait for the sensor and plug it in. But yes cleaning the connector 3 times now could not have been bad since dirt can cause false readings. Thinking. For one of the most important if not the most important sensor in you vehicle regarding mileage and protecting the engine i would have expected a more solid connection.
They way it is right now, if it gathers dust and when water droplets get on it it during rain or simply high humidity and salt at the ocean, it will slightly short the pins, causing false readings and variation in mileage.
As for as cleaning. I would recommend brushing the dust among to terminals in the back of it. Using contact cleaner could make a mess and you could get in trouble like i just did.
11:33 Ok why is it happening only to me? I am getting conflicting info about the upstream sensor in my car. While the scanner reports the B1S1 (Bank one sensor one) in volts and the B1S2 in mA, google answers say the upstream sensor is a wideband one and should give the results in mA.

5:15 PM My belt was too tight since the walk and i was itching under it. So i loosened it up after a guy passed by the window and started to scratch. However the grown man turned around and passed feet away from the window (Latino, long hair). The blinds are 3/4 on, there is sun outside, he could not have seen me however he stared right into my direction.
How many times the black BMW thundered today? I went to smoke a cigarette, first there was an airhorn or ambulance and then a loud black sporty car with modified exhaust. So people are asking selves why i chose to leave here during the weekend? However i can't right now, i wait for an oxygen sensor tomorrow (a different type, 24 bucks, not even sure if it fits, thee was not enough description at the Amazon page).
BTW when i left i was going through the newly build pathway behind the complex saw the sign at the beginning (or end) of the alley and took a picture and when i returned i saw in the newly seal coated parking lot at Whitney building (right in the picture) a car with a HORNE dealer sign instead of LPN yes from the great state of WA (Shinto).
The woman came at the car to leave and she was kind smiling as i was staring at her front plate thinking of what to say.
Redhead, glasses, tall, late 40s, not my type (you all know by now what my type is). Didn't say anything as i passed and she was climbing into her car which reminds me... (yes my phone lens was dirty, the reason why i screwed so many pictures in Reno).
They put this at the entrance of the new alley. Are these lotus motifs?
Wednesday they trimmed the bushes, yesterday they picked the leaves (a very small amount) but forgot to do this one which is an Aucuba Japonica, a toxic plant. When the leaves dry they turn into something black and brittle, like ash.

Hunga. Two ropes and a small cage (green) on a branch.

6:00 A very loud base in the distance still stirs the dust around. My eyes hurt a little.




10:10 Yesterday after i pulled the curtain from that window (left, 14 floor) what did i see. First one guy, then a second, then a third. All bending and picking items from the ground, but most of the time they were bent the other way like in the second image.
This to me translates into bad luck. The easiest example i can give is blocking intestinal flow, with intense back pain in the evening, after 6 hours driving and 8 on the road. First event after that. At @10:30 i almost hit a black VIP SUV when living while trying to change lanes at Virginia and Hubbard, having a Police car right behind me.

Last first. That black guy came at high speed on my right when i was trying to merge on the exit lane in Tualatin where i live. Almost hit it. Then he fast switched 3 lanes as i grabbed the phone to take the picture. Yeah i believe most accidents happen at the beginning and ending of a trip.
Carrying asphalt on an asphalted lane. The top cover was flapping in the wind.
Not far from Susanville, before taking a right on 44 (and then on 89). Missed the turn.


8:48 Fall equinox, daylight time equals night. From now on days are getting shorter than nights until December 21 when the process start reversing. What a beautiful glorious day in Nevada, California and Oregon. Maybe too hot for this time of the year some would say.
We left Peppermill at 10 something.
Besides tightening the spark plugs there which was good, they are now finally holding (more about this later), i made one more mistake. I wrote about, ignoring one of the first lessons i learned while coming in the US. Do not volunteer information. Will talk about later.
For the second and third day at Peppermill. They reserved 2 or 3 sections of the parking lot for a convention of cops. Some from Antioch CA. They were maybe 30 Police cars and several others Sheriff's, maybe up to ten. I took this picture while passing, a bit moved.
9:02 So when we left this morning i kept pointing the scene to Angela but she was too mad to even look. After playing for three days, more than 10 hours a day, she was going back with 200 dollar minus (yes 100 minus was my contribution but i only had to play a couple of hours with the same result).
Talking like that i did not even see the Police car behind me. At the intersection of Hubbard and Virginia i was on the wrong lane to make a right turn, for some reason i was thinking left in that moment and one thousand other things and Angela suddenly realized and started to yell at me. So i turned the wheel but i saw with the corner of my eye a moving black mass sneaking in that right lane from behind and turned the wheel back around. Then i waited for that to pass and finally moved and when i looked at the place i was a second before i saw a Police SUV.
Angela started to yell at me even more and then we yelled at each other but could not convince her she made a mistake by yelling at the driver and i saved the day, the week, month and year.
It took her hours to start forgetting her loss of money and time. But then she said, it is covered by the price of the room. But that room was not like the others we got before also for free. Must have been at least 300 or more a night. Not taking into account that fact that Cindy Crawford might have been our next door neighbor (i only had the chance to see her face for about one second and not in the best of light).
Same problem with choking in there. Hotels like that built in the 70s are indeed magnificent. Steel and marble (and some plastic) and of course the dreaded wall to wall carpet with recycled padding under. They are supposedly pumping fresh air in the corridors and from there in the rooms (mainly though the space under doors).
When we got in there i first noticed a smell of dust like it has just been vacuumed but without the final filter on. I done it several times before i started to use bags which are a filter in themselves. Then i pulled from the suitcase the OION, a small electrostatic filter with UV inside. It helped in the first day but then Angela wanted to turn on the AC and i know the radiators inside (coils, heat exchangers whatever) are loaded with dust, probably never cleaned in 50 years. What else can i say.








