4WD ABS light

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4WD ABS light

Post by markov1723 » Tue Oct 23, 2012 4:57 pm

..keeps coming on randomly, should I have 'The Fear'? (TM)
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Re: 4WD ABS light

Post by Northern Bongolow » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:10 pm

try gently cleaning the faces of the sensors, all this rain aint good for lecky stuff. theres a section in the bongo manual on how to test them but this may be hard to do if its an occasional fault.
follow the wires up from the sensor, there is a connector,(its quite a way up) split and clean.
be careful if you go for the removal of the sensor, the bolts either break off or the sensor is stuck in the mount.
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Re: 4WD ABS light

Post by MountainGoat » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:40 pm

Mine was doing the random bit last year then finaly went when I hit a pothole. :-& :-& :-&

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Re: 4WD ABS light

Post by markov1723 » Fri Oct 26, 2012 12:44 pm

Cheers guys.. now.. how to find the sensor ;-)
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Re: 4WD ABS light

Post by dave_aber » Fri Oct 26, 2012 2:27 pm

Have you by any chance fitted LED stop lamps? I did (they were crap) and they caused the 4WD ABS lamp to illuminate randomly.

If you have not fitted LEDs, check your stop lamps and connections, there is obviously some sort of self-test of the stop lamp circuit.
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Re: 4WD ABS light

Post by Simon Jones » Fri Oct 26, 2012 8:40 pm

ABS sensor can be seen towards the top left of this picture of front hub (2WD):

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