[Russ in VA]

Well, I hope that I have conquered this problem. The O2 sensor is installed, but I have not driven the car since I have some other things apart at the moment. If anyone is interested, I think I have come up with a nice clean solution. I went to the salvage yard and found the wiring harness end conector from a 1988 Mercury Grand Marquis (any late 80's, early 90's Ford product with the 302 V8 should be the same) . This plugs right into the Bosch #13953 3-wire unit for Fords with the nice long connectors ($39 at NAPA). We (actually my certified mil spec soldering friend David I met via this board... THANKS DAVID) spliced the plug onto my factory wires (after pushing the sheild up on the signal wire as mentioned above). I now can replace my sensor anytime as a plug-and-play for less than $40. The wires are all soldered on and heat shrinked so I feel good that I have a solid conection. Since my factory plug was broken off anyhow, I HAD to play with the wires, so might as well save some money at the same time. If you want to try this and don't want (or have to) cut up your factory harness, you could cut the plug (or plugs since mine had two) off your old sensor and make a adaptor with the salvage yard connector so that your car plugs into the adaptor, the o2 sensor plugs into the adaptor, but you can change back to the porsche part anytime. I don't have this flexibilty, but you could easily. Hope someone finds this helpful. I even have an extra conector from the Mercury (it had two) that I'll mail to any fellow pelicanite that would like it.