Someone please help me haha. Im 26 years old, I have a 1999 Dodge Durango. My husband is a mechanic, he always fixes my car. He just replaced my 2 front ball joints, and my 2 front wheel bearings, which have the new abs sensors in them. Well now that he's replaced them, everytime I hit my brakes, my anti lock brakes kick on. And I cant stop in time. It doesnt matter if Im going 30 mph or 1 mph. So therefore I cannot drive my car until I figure out whats going on with it. Do you think he hooked it up wrong, or maybe the sensors are defective? Maybe its someone else?[]

 

I would say it would be your abs sensors themselves. Usually it would be issues with dirty sensors, and underinflated tires (also different sizes). Have you thrown a code?

 

Julia:

The repair you describe is pretty straight forward. Not much that really could go wrong there. Have your hubby try a battery disconnect reset to clear any gobbly gook out of the computers, and let the system recognize the new sensors. While the a battery is off, depress the brake pedal for 30 seconds to drain things completely.

I suppose you could have a defective new sensor. Another possibility would be that the halfshafts are installed backwards so that the reluctor is not near the sensors to give them their proper signal (assuming they can be put in either way)

That really is a weird issue. Hopefully it will be somethingsimple for you.

Don

 

Been there, done that.

Any chance he added new brakes along the way? If so, it's trapped air causing the problem. The repair process says to cycle the ABS system in a particular fashion at the dealership using their computer controls to tell the system when to open valves, force air out, open again, etc etc etc. At home, the best you can do is to bleed, bleed and re-bleed the brakes. Problem fixed thereafter once you are certain there is no air in the lines. Start from the RR wheel, then the LR wheel, then the RF wheel finishing with the LF and nearest to the ABS controller. It's a 2 person and about 2 hours to get it done with removing the wheels. Around an hour leaving them on and working around them.

HTH,

IndyDurango

 

True.

If nothing can be done, it has to go to the dealer to fix ABS systems. They are the only ones that have the equiptment to fix the ABS and find out what is going on. I would try the above mentioned things first tho.

 

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