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Can a bad cat mess up a new o2 sensor

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Old 11-19-2017, 10:30 PM
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Default Can a bad cat mess up a new o2 sensor
I have a stock 01 Ford Mustang v6 and i think one of my catalytic converters is bad i want to change my o2 sensor to see if thats might be the problem but i dont want to buy the o2 sensor and and install it and it gets destroyed for a bad catalytic converters.
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Old 11-19-2017, 10:37 PM
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If it is down stream of the cat, it could.
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Old 11-20-2017, 03:50 PM
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Old 11-21-2017, 10:59 AM
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If an O2 goes bad it throws a CEL. usually.
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