I am going to install my O2 housing and was wondering the most pupular way to go about it. Most of the installs I have seen say that pulling manifold and doing the swap off the car is best. Is this really the best way? anybody just pull off the O2 housing. Install stories would be awesome.Thanks.

 

When i did mine, imo the easiest way is to remove the hotside and do the swap right there.. All that holds up the hotside is a ring, pretty easy to remove. Or you can try to remove the o2 housing bolts with is still in the car but its a pita

 

Yeah, you seem to be in the same boat as most others. Any body do this without taking off the hotside?

 

Update: I ended up pulling the manifold and swapping 02's out of the car. Was pretty easy, Would have been a lot easier if I had pulled the rad out of the car. While the mani was off I decided to replace it with a megan unit. Encountered a problem bolting everything back up, I can't get one of the bolts from the mani to hotside to line up. It is off by a little bit, no matter what I try I can't get it right. If any body could tell me the order they bolted everything back up it would be much appreciated.

 

I did mine myself. The easiest way for me(note: I have no car lift) was to remove the o2 itself. You dont want to mess with taking off parts of the turbo. Now if this is a 9 you will need to remove a bracket bolted to the block(i dont know why the damn thing is there cause nothing is on it) and after that you willbe able to remove the 02 out of there. Once this si done then you can slide the new one in then put the bracket back on cause those 2 bolts that hodl the bracket actually plug up the oil galley ports so if you dont put those back on you will squirt out oil.

Then once you get everything back on there you can start to put everything else back in.