Oxygen sensor fried in bpt?

[Franko]

I have a bpt in my mx.. and lately I have noticed that after I drive a little bit the mixture gauge wont go any further than say 11:00 on the gauge. Usually it bounces from rich to lean while I am driving but the past few days it will eventually stop bouncing and just stuck at that point.. It still goes all the way to lean like it is supposed to when you take your foot off the gas to slow down but it wont get past that point.. Also as I drive the check engine light comes on so I thought that that has to be what it is... The oxygen sensor is a heated one but I dont have the 2 wires for the heating element hooked up, just the signal wire. Could this be the problem or is the sensor just gone? If I do need to hook up the heater element what do I hook these wires up to?

[OsoSlo z28]

if it's been running rich, it's dead. I had to replace mine because of this. the heating element shouldn't cause a problem with it, as all it does is heat it up faster to get a quicker reading.

[Franko]

Yeah it does run rich.. It is probally due to the close to lean condition that the sensor is sending to the ecu and the ecu is trying to richen it up.. :p