Re: Help with ABS Problem

From: Tony Brummett (tony@blight.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 16:17:24 EDT


On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 03:06:04PM -0400, Bob Tom wrote:
> At 12:51 PM 7/20/01 -0400, you wrote:
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Brian Blater [mailto:blater@sisna.com]
> >
> >I have a 96 Dakota SLT 4x4 CC with the V8 and the rear ABS option. Yesterday
> >on my way home from work I was making a left hand turn and had to apply the
> >brakes a little harder than normal (not enough to lock up the rear or
> >anything), but while doing this the ABS light and parking brake light came
> >on. Since then they have stayed on. -- SNIP --
>
> Two things (that I can recall) that have appeared on the list about this.
> Check the brake fuse is one and the other was a faulty vehicle speed sensor.

That reminds me... a couple of days ago I posted the ABS question about
my '99 with 4 wheel ABS. From reading the archives some more, I found out
that the speedometer is driven off of the rear wheel speed sensor.

In my original post, I hadn't mentioned that occasionally my speedometer
will start moving on its own when I'm sitting at a stoplight, wavering
randomly between 0 and 40mph. As soon as I start moving, it returns to
acting normal. This dosen't happen nearly as often as the ABS idiot lights
coming on - less than once a week for the speedometer, once a day for the ABS
light.

I guess I have somewhere to start looking for bad connections.

-- Tony tony@blight.com



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