Your Ford Mustang Oxygen Sensor is an important component of your car’s fuel and engine system (the overall system that provides gasoline to the internal combustion engine and ensures that it runs smoothly and efficiently). An internal combustion gasoline-powered engine will run the most effectively with a certain air-fuel mixture. Not only does the air-fuel mixture affect the degree to which the engine can function well – it also has an effect on the degree and amount of emissions that are produced.

Your car’s oxygen sensor, a relatively small part of machinery, is important in the proper functioning of the catalytic converter, which treats your car’s exhaust before it enters the air, removing many harmful pollutants produced while driving. These pollutants include carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons (which are broken down by sunlight into oxidants which, in reaction with oxides of nitrogen, form ground-level ozone – the basis of smog), and nitrogen oxides (which in addition to contributing to smog and acid rain can irritate human mucus membranes).

A modern catalytic converter is generally equipped with a three-way catalytic converter (the term “three-way” refers to the three pollutants – listed above – that it aims to reduce) that employs two different catalysts to neutralize harmful compounds. Typically, a Ford Mustang Oxygen Sensor is placed in the exhaust manifold (which exists in order to corral the exhaust gases into one main pipe before expulsion from the vehicle), where the Ford Mustang Oxygen Sensor can measure the exhaust gases to determine the amount of oxygen that is present.This information will then be sent to the fuel injection system, which will then modify the gas-air mixture being sent to the internal combustion engine.