Rear o2 Questions

1QWK96GT

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Well I recently decided I was tired of staring at my MIL so I decided to make my own mil eliminators. My car is a 96 Mustang GT with mac long tubes, mac offroad shorty h pipe and a flowmaster catback. I wired it all up according to what the schrematic called for, hooked it up monitored the rear o2's and I was only seeing .01/.02 volts max on both rear o2's. So I decided to check my heater circuits and they are working fine since they are wired into the pcm relay and otherwise the vehicle would not even run. Anyway I let the vehicle run until it was in closed loop and the rear o2s are not switching with my homemade mil eliminators. Then I came to the conclusion that I had 2 bad o2's I tried 12 different o2's and they all read .01/.02 volts and dont switch. I am trying to hook up my homemade mil eliminators and monitor the rear o2's and verify that the rears are performing the way they should and wont throw another code. Thanks
 
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Rear O2s shouldn't switch. If they do it's an indication the cats aren't working properly. In fact the MIL eliminator is a low-pass filter that is supposed to smooth out the transitions the rear O2 will show with no cats present.

If you're showing only 10- or 20-mV you might have a fault in the wiring. How did you measure the output? Do you have access to a scanner that can show you the rear O2 voltages as seen by the PCM?
 
ohh yeah I mean the fronts are switching and the rears should be about .5 volt I am only seing .01/.02 volts. I work at a ford dealership and I used the IDS to monitor the PIDS.