Another ABS/brake light thread
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Another ABS/brake light thread
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I read a lot, post very little here. I have a 2001 Ram 1500 4x4 with FWAL brakes. I had a race break in the RF wheel bearing. Before replacement, the ABS would wig out at about 7 mph while coming down to a stop. This felt like a really hard pedal. You can feel the ABS system triggering through your foot on the brake pedal. I assumed that the bad hub assembly was increasing or decreasing the gap between the sensor and the tone ring.
Fast forward to the actual repair. The RF hub assembly was in bad shape. Replaced it, threw 2 loaded calipers in front. Thought I was good to go.
Drove it to work a couple of times, and the ABS light stayed on since the shop visit. The ABS freak-out continued, so I tested my curiosity by pulling the ABS fuse. The brakes themselves work great. But...the idiot lights are on.
Today, I got a rain day for the first time in about 2 months
I ran over to my local independent mechanic, who had a few minutes to listen. He offered to scan it right then and there with his gigantic Snap-On scanner with DRB-III for ABS. We drove about a quarter-mile up the street.
Within 500 feet, he saw that there was still a code for the old, broken hub. Cleared that. Then, the LEFT front hub (that I hadn't gotten to yet) lost sync, got it back, lost it, right back, stayed good for about half a block, I got below about 15-20 mph and lost sync completely. Hit 7 mph turning around at a business. He saw the LF hub sensor go out and trigger the ABS.
Problem ID'd. ABS fuse removed again until a Timken (to match the other new one) is acquired?
"Why not Moog?" you ask?
The Moog I originally bought and shipped through the Zone arrived with all 5 studs sticking through the bottom of the box. I opened and looked at it all wrapped in plastic. Looked fine to me...
The mechanic calls... the ABS plug is destroyed, yet safely wrapped in plastic. I'm working 40 miles away, so I talk my wife into picking up the part so that I can at least return it to an AutoZone store. Fortunately, they had a Timken in a hub location. It had a 3-year warranty, so yes. I wasted an extra day on that, but we're getting there.
A LF hub assembly, alignment, tire fund for some KO2's that cost more than the truck, and a probable plenum project will get me ready for winter.
Maybe a TV kickdown cable, too. End is broken, but rigged with a heavy paper clip and a twist-tie.
I would like next year to be "year of sheetmetal replacement", since I don't have room to park a donor truck to just steal the whole cab, fenders, doors, and box.
This will be a good pickup-owning experience...BTW, the heated mirrors, heated seats, stereo with steering wheel controls, most of the seat controls, THE TRANSFER CASE!!! all work!
To all of you experimenters and surgeons on here, keep up the fine fight! Your work, and your posts are much appreciated!
I read a lot, post very little here. I have a 2001 Ram 1500 4x4 with FWAL brakes. I had a race break in the RF wheel bearing. Before replacement, the ABS would wig out at about 7 mph while coming down to a stop. This felt like a really hard pedal. You can feel the ABS system triggering through your foot on the brake pedal. I assumed that the bad hub assembly was increasing or decreasing the gap between the sensor and the tone ring.
Fast forward to the actual repair. The RF hub assembly was in bad shape. Replaced it, threw 2 loaded calipers in front. Thought I was good to go.
Drove it to work a couple of times, and the ABS light stayed on since the shop visit. The ABS freak-out continued, so I tested my curiosity by pulling the ABS fuse. The brakes themselves work great. But...the idiot lights are on.
Today, I got a rain day for the first time in about 2 months
I ran over to my local independent mechanic, who had a few minutes to listen. He offered to scan it right then and there with his gigantic Snap-On scanner with DRB-III for ABS. We drove about a quarter-mile up the street.
Within 500 feet, he saw that there was still a code for the old, broken hub. Cleared that. Then, the LEFT front hub (that I hadn't gotten to yet) lost sync, got it back, lost it, right back, stayed good for about half a block, I got below about 15-20 mph and lost sync completely. Hit 7 mph turning around at a business. He saw the LF hub sensor go out and trigger the ABS.
Problem ID'd. ABS fuse removed again until a Timken (to match the other new one) is acquired?
"Why not Moog?" you ask?
The Moog I originally bought and shipped through the Zone arrived with all 5 studs sticking through the bottom of the box. I opened and looked at it all wrapped in plastic. Looked fine to me...
The mechanic calls... the ABS plug is destroyed, yet safely wrapped in plastic. I'm working 40 miles away, so I talk my wife into picking up the part so that I can at least return it to an AutoZone store. Fortunately, they had a Timken in a hub location. It had a 3-year warranty, so yes. I wasted an extra day on that, but we're getting there.
A LF hub assembly, alignment, tire fund for some KO2's that cost more than the truck, and a probable plenum project will get me ready for winter.
Maybe a TV kickdown cable, too. End is broken, but rigged with a heavy paper clip and a twist-tie.
I would like next year to be "year of sheetmetal replacement", since I don't have room to park a donor truck to just steal the whole cab, fenders, doors, and box.
This will be a good pickup-owning experience...BTW, the heated mirrors, heated seats, stereo with steering wheel controls, most of the seat controls, THE TRANSFER CASE!!! all work!
To all of you experimenters and surgeons on here, keep up the fine fight! Your work, and your posts are much appreciated!
