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Old 10-15-2008, 10:09 AM   #179 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fzust View Post
From post #106(bears repeating...)

This will cause the ECU to think more air is entering the engine than reality you will have a potentially dangerous lean condition!
The dirty element must cause the ECU to think LESS air is entering the engine, which indeed would cause a lean condition.. If the ECU thought more air was entering than in reality, it would then inject more fuel for this erroneously large quantity of air, and you'd have a rich condition..


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