GM Flex Fuel Sensor Failures
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GM Flex Fuel Sensor Failures
I have now been through 2 "small" GM flex fuel sensors. They have both been genuine ACDelco units but fail in a bizarre way. They will randomly (as far as I can tell) start reading 30-33% ethanol content regardless of actual ethanol content and then after some time slowly go back down or up to the correct ethanol content. I have attached a log showing the issue, just look at the ethanol content throughout the log. At this point, I am tired of the car randomly deciding to run extremely rich for short periods of time when the sensors decide to **** themselves, does anyone have a decent aftermarket sensor that they have found reliable? I'd prefer to have fuel temp as well.
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I have swapped the smaller GM flex fuel sensor with the larger GM part (13577379). It worked fine for a short period but is now giving me the exact same symptoms as before:
Randomly misreads ethanol content at around 33% even though fuel temp works, now randomly shows "Flex Fault" on TS with baseline e85 content and 101* (default) fuel temperature.
At this point it has to be my wiring or my ECU. The power (12V) and ground for the sensor are both pulled from the wiper motor connector and the signal wire was ran from the sensor to the DB37 connector on my MSLas MS3 basic. Next step is to test continuity and see if I have issues there, but I cannot understand how the ethanol content suddenly starts reading wrong while the fuel temp works fine if it is a continuity/wiring issue.
Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas I should try?
Randomly misreads ethanol content at around 33% even though fuel temp works, now randomly shows "Flex Fault" on TS with baseline e85 content and 101* (default) fuel temperature.
At this point it has to be my wiring or my ECU. The power (12V) and ground for the sensor are both pulled from the wiper motor connector and the signal wire was ran from the sensor to the DB37 connector on my MSLas MS3 basic. Next step is to test continuity and see if I have issues there, but I cannot understand how the ethanol content suddenly starts reading wrong while the fuel temp works fine if it is a continuity/wiring issue.
Has anyone else experienced this or have any ideas I should try?
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