Yes it can hurt your engine to drive with a bad knock sensor. The knock sensor should be replaced as soon as possible.
The knock sensor just advances and retards the engine timing only. If there is a noise in the engine then you have engine are valve train problems. The knock sensor will not make the engine knock.
NO it will not. If you have a knocking sound then you have trouble inside of the engine.
A bad knock sensor would illuminate the check engine light and allow the engine to ping (spark knock). The engine doesn't shift, the transmission shifts.
The knock sensor retards the engine timing when there is a knock or ping detected. This will make the car a little sluggish. It is rare that the knock sensor goes bad.
No, the knock sensor only retards the timing when it detects the engine pinging.
It changes the TIMING.
yes , the knock sensor makes the car move sluggish wen bad and so the owner want to accelerate more but the engine wont deliver, in these form the transmission can be affected
you will have a knock sensor code and the car will run slugish. when a knock sesor code is set its retards the timing so the engine will not detonate. the easyiest way to fix it is relocating the sensor.
The sensor is bad. A properly-functioning knock sensor allows the ECM to advance timing until it senses a knock. It then retards timing until the knock just barely goes away allowing for optimal gas mileage.
Well, it like this. If the knock sensor is bad and the ignition system does not know this, it will destroy the engine, that all.
Ping under acceleration or under load.