ABS or no ABS?
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ABS or no ABS?
I’m rebuilding my front suspension and im confused about my findings. On the drivers side the wheel bearing appears to have the ABS wire on it, but the passengers side didn’t. What’s going on? I ordered the wheel bearings today, before I got to the other side. So now I have non-ABS wheel bearings coming. 😩
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I'm curious about this as well now. I just bought a bearing/hub assembly for the front driver side (with ABS), under the assumption that since it had a wire on the front driver side bearing area that it was all wheel ABS. I think there was only one wire. Now I think I might want to check the passenger side and rear as well to make sure it is 4 wheel ABS lol. I guess i'll know if mine is when I go to take it out. Are their 3rd gen Dakota's that are 4 wheel ABS and some are 2 wheel ABS? I based my assumptions off of this video:
which is a 4wd bearing hub replacement. I just assumed it would be abs on all 4 bearings/wheels if it was on one.
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You should be able to just look and see the wire coming up past the upper A-arm. I called the dealer and what they said was that they had both all wheel ABS and only rear wheel ABS. But the rear wheel setup gets its reading from the sensor on the left front. There’s no sensors on the back axle.
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what year is the vehicle? engine?
Is the abs light on all the time when driving? does the abs light come on for a bulb check when the key is initally turned to run?
Is the abs light on all the time when driving? does the abs light come on for a bulb check when the key is initally turned to run?
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Well, mines a 2005 3.7L 4WD. The ABS bulb comes on during initial key turn, light does not stay on constantly and is behaving as intended. In my case, I figure i'll just put the ABS bearing in the front even if it is rear wheel drive (although I'm pretty sure mine is all wheel ABS). Seems it should fit either way.
