So I have an 01 dakota sport. If I use the autel ds 708, I can talk to most of the modules except the abs module. I'm trying to bleed the brakes but simply cannot get the abs unit to do anything. I picked up one of those micropod ii clones. And while I can see the pcm, there is no talking to pretty much any of the other modules at all. I am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong and googling seems to come no real answer at all.

 

Real possibility neither one will talk to the ABS....... even if they can see it, still might not be able to run the bleed procedure.

If you have decent enough brakes, just find a dirt road somewhere, and step on the brakes hard enough to get the ABS to do it's thing, then go home and bleed 'em some more.

 

It's getting to that point. One of the rear cylinders looks like it blew out judging from the large puddle around the wheel after I tried to bleed it is weekend

 

Should probably fix that before driving it anywhere.

 

The method I used before I got my DRB (then deleted RWAL), I put it up on GOOD jackstands, ran it to about 45 MPH (think ABS activates at 35), then stood on the brake. Do that 3 times, manual bleed, do it 3 more times, manual bleed, and you're about as good as you're gonna get.

 

Still no love with the emulator but at least now the abs/brake idiot lights are out now that the cylinder is fixed. Truck now Bob's and bounces like it has bad shocks, but thatcwasnt evident in my first test drive.

 

know nothing about autel. My snap on scanners will (that's what "bidirectional" means) and the OTC Genisys will, to a lesser extent, that we have at work. When I bought my most recent Snap on, I tried to find someone selling Autel so I could try one, compare it to what I was used to, all that. But besides ads in the monthly automotive trade magazines we get at work, where Autel toots its own horn (but very little real world articles by people who have actually used one) none of the tech how to articles or stories where readers write in for help from the magazine staff ever mention using Autel equipment. Where did you get this thing? Id be interested in trying one out. I will say though that while none will do everything, of the ones I have used, I have an easier time getting to the parameter I want to monitor and accessing teh test I wanna run on Mopars with the Snap ons (I am on my 3rd one, they get outdated over the years..... started with an MT2500 "the original red brick" back in 'o1, now have a Solus Edge. With a GM I find easier to access what I want with the OTC. Fords are a toss up between those 2. I refuse to buy one of each of the factory scanners, that is for work to do (and they won't) I'm a fleet mechanic for the state, a miserable state that has mostly Fords and a few GMs mixed in/ but personally, I have never owned anything that isn't a Dodge or a Jeep.

 

My son and daughter in law have a 12 Yukon. (it was grandfathered in when my son got married) last Thursday. they had a caliper lock up. My son ordered all 4 new calipers and hoses, took them off that nite. Had to wait til next day for parts to arrive. Brake fluid gravity bled itself out, overnite. He called me and said he could not get a pedal. Saturday I took my scanner over and let it run thru the bleed test, got a slug of air out of the LF that would not come out with foot bleeding. Pedal then was fine. That process took alot of fluid though! There aren't many vehicles that I can't get a solid pedal by just doing conventional bleed process with someone inside pumping, and someone outside opening/closing bleeder.