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Be more successful in testing your oil sensor and more confident in judging whether it’s good or bad. the Honda manual could improve the method recommended for testing oil temperature sensors. I’ve had poor luck using an open flame to heat the pan of oil as described to perform the test. I’ve had much better performance using an electric stovetop and peanut oil. I used a two quart stock pot—good height to width ratio for heating oil. I immerse the sensor in the pan of oil just to the base. Set up my fluke meter and thermometer. Once i got the pan and sensor temp stabilized (at or below 75F) then i kick on the heat and start logging values. My tablecraft electric stovetop gets the oil from 65-70F up to 338F in 15 minutes. So every 20 seconds, i was logging a 5F change in temp and the corresponding resistance value. Not only do I know when the sensor reaches cooling system set points, i see how responsive the sensors are to the rise in temperature. This method helps to keep consistency in my readings where before i was doing it outside with the wind, not very well organized, heating the oil too fast. Oh and the house smells like peanuts not a garage.

Ha ha no problem brother looks like we probably hit send at the same time LOL