I appreciate your posting, it was helpful. However, I just did my son's 2004 Accord and the knock sensor could easily be reached just over the alternator with a deep well 27mm socket with a swivel joint and eight inch extension under the intake. Removing the plastic shroud was helpful to see the sensor, but I found that there is no need to remove the throttle body or intake manifold. As simple as replacing a spark plug and the sensor engine code was resolved.
You helped me greatly! My son failed emissions due to knock sensor. Followed your video and “knocked” this out. Great video snd HUGE thanks! Keep it going! This is by far one of the nest tutorials I’ve watched and learned from.
Thanks for uploading this video! Watched 5 or 6 others that made me think I couldn't do this repair, then I saw yours. Maybe it's cuz I live in STL too, LOL. Based on how much money I saved by doing this repair myself I'm more than happy to buy you a meal and/or beer sometime.
Thank you for the help! This turned out to be an easy repair- nice to know (different from the book) to take off the entire throttle body. Hardest part was finding a 27mm socket for the knock sensor itself. Ended up using a wrench... was a tad cumbersome, but got the job done. Thank you.
Yes some people say they can get it out with removing the manifold but I can remove the manifold in minutes and be down to it without much headache at all so that's how I always do it
I appreciate your video, I just finished, but I got another issue that is a sound and it seems to be losing air somewhere. Is there anyone who had this issue after changing the knock sensor?
Sounds like maybe one of you vacumn lines either didn't go back on or fell off I would look real close around your manifold and make sure all the hoses are back on
7:45 you need to take that bracket off and it's a pain in the ass. In the video you're telling viewers not to take it off which is not right. I spent 20 mins figuring it out. Other than that great video. I couldn't find torque spec for the manifold online. It would be helpful to torque anything with a gasket.
I might be thinking of the element in those you can pull it off without taking that bracket off the manifold. I think you are right on this car someone had already been in there, I think it had a newer starter on it.
@@HooptiesGarage the code as said by my mechanic was to replace sensors and did it. he did the reset but it came back up again. I disconnected the battery, tighten the fuel cap and it came back again. the mechanic says if the car is running good don't worry about it. But it is getting on my nerves.
@@lexu3167 wasup bro , yeah mine all it was was a loose cord tht wasn’t connected when I changed out the starter the guy forgot to connect it back when he put everything back together, I kept thinking it was the knock sensor but nope was just a connecting tht was not connected
I had a mechanic switch this out on my mother's car and he said drive it for 100 miles and the check engine light will go off then after it reprograms the computer. Is that correct because I see in this video that you didn't need to drive it to stop the check engine light from coming on?
I cleared the codes after I installed it if he didn't clear the codes then yes it will probably take some drive cycles for it to clear but he should have just cleared the code and took it for a drive to check his work
so many you tube videos having people remove parts that dont need to be removed??? You freakin dont have to remove the intake manifold, find other you tube videos showing how to remove sensor without removing the freakin intake manifold, do your research and filter out the bad info
