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[HoustinoJillian]

the sensor does not produce and sense the field at the same point, the way the sensor works is the vanes are put between the source and the sensor, disruping the field. regardless, it looks like the vanes are nothing special, so they should be bendable?

 

[dantheman68]

It can detect each of the little spikes on the ruffled wheel thingie as they pass in front of it.

i always wondered what the technical term was... thanks :laugh_ti:


and im not being a smarta55 because i dont konw what theyre called either.. i just read it and thought it was funny

 

[290]

Yes its VERY bendable, when i was going my front 60k i put the crank sensor on to early figuring id just get it place. Well i put it on backwards and when i went to turn the engine over i smashed the sensor and bent the begebus out of the vanes, took me a good two hours and another sensor to get it back into shape. On top of that i put it all back together just to start it and hear the vanes hitting the sensor so i had to tear it all apart again....not one of my brightest moments.......

 

[GoofSHO]

i always wondered what the technical term was... thanks :laugh_ti:


and im not being a smarta55 because i dont konw what theyre called either.. i just read it and thought it was funny

The ring on the axle is called a Reluctor Ring. Just an FYI.

B

 

[TYSHO]

Yall are all wrong, the CPS is a sensor!


Anyhow, if you need that piece Sean, I think I might have one around. Let me know if you need it.

 

[SHOck]

I don't know whether there's any additional trickery going on with the vanes where some magnetization is added to improve reliability/accuracy/something. The tight specs on the gap for the cps have always led me to believe that the cps is either an unusual hall effect device or a very precise one.

BTW, another common example of a Hall effect sensor on the SHO is the ABS sensors. It can detect each of the little spikes on the ruffled wheel thingie as they pass in front of it.

No trickery. Having a magnetized reluctor would actually cause problems due to generating a magnetic field. With a hall-effect device you want to interrupt that field, so you shield the sensor from the magnetic source.

The CPS gap is tight to save moolah. Oh, excuse me, in Fordese, it's for greater accuracy.

The ABS sensors are variable reluctance, not hall effect. Don't need hall effect devices to do cheap analog differential calculations.

 

[SeanMc]

Is this thread still going? Jeez.

 

[GoofSHO]

As soon as you say it's fixed.............

 

[93rev2sev]

The "magnet" is in the sensor, not the vanes.

heres a shot -

 

[290]

I heart rust on my timing........area.......

 

[SHOBlu]

Me too. My rusty area.......sensor...

 

[SHOck]

My mom always said I shouldn't talk about my rusty timing area to strangers. But you all seem like nice strangers.

 

[Shoaz]

My mom always said I shouldn't talk about my rusty timing area to strangers. But you all seem like nice strangers.

We're stranger than you think.

 

[USHOMEISHOU]

:corn: :corn: :corn: :corn: :corn: :corn: :corn: :corn:

 

[Mrhappytuzi]

bwhaha holy lotta rust!!!

 

[SubCool]

This is a bad CPS:
http://photos.yahoo.com/subcoolent

 

[GoofSHO]

We're stranger than you think.

Ya Think???!!!!


LOL:laugh_ti: :wave:

B

 

[St Louis SHO]

Sean, If you need the trigger wheel I have one here I can send you, just PM me, I'll have to look for it, but have it here somewhere

James

 

[Paul]

It's a proximity switch. That's a ugly picture.