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I love it when I do stuff like this....
This is what your ABS unit looks like with the control unit removed. Each one of the dowel like projections is a valve that can be operated by a winding of wire with electricity applied thus creating an electromagnet and opening the valve.
This is what it looks like when you pull out those torx screws...
This is the ABS control unit. The side exposed is what fits over the valve block. Each cylindrical part you see is a coil of wire that gets electrified when the ABS is triggered. The resulting electromagnetic force makes the valve open.
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OK. Like many, I've been driving around with the ABS light on. No biggie really in my opinion. I thought I'll fix it sometime..
Well, about a week ago, after that discussion about possible stuck valves and such. I decided, what the hoohaa! Let's bang on the valve block with a ball peen hammer. Just a few "smart" raps here and there oughtta do it!!
Nothing. Light still on.
But.. a few days later, during wet weather, I hit the brakes on a corner where I met a truck coming and I felt, brruururup! in the brake pedal! I looked down and NO ABS light!! WOW! OK cool. I figured I'd test it so a bit further down the road I hit the brakes with one front wheel off on the dirt shoulder and it worked again!
I drove another few miles, wondering, no, ... racking my brain to think, think, what made it do that?? Alas, the light came back on a few miles later. But it got me to thinking about all this ABS stuff so I read up on it in the manual and such. Not much news there except to check the connectors under the car. I pulled the rear sensor connector for each and then pluged them back in. They loked fine. I checked the fronts the same way. I checked the connector at the control unit, again...
Then I said, screw it. I'm going exploring!
...and so, I pulled the unit apart and put it back together, but not before I got pics for all you curious ones like myself. Let me tell you, that thing is near bulletproof! It's some kind of phenolic material. You can't take it apart without smashing it!! Too bad...
TODAY... my ABS light went out on the way home from work!!
Nice warm sunny day. I checked it a few times on the dirt road. Working fine. Shut down the car when I got home, restarted, still working.
For how long though.. and why!!?????????????
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