Re: ___ Do ABS sensors get rusted in place, OR WHAT ! ! !
On Mon, 31 May 2004 16:01:22 -0600, "motsco_ _" <"motsco_ _"@interbaun.com>
wrote:
||Rex B wrote:
||> On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:33:16 -0600, "motsco_ _" <"motsco_ _"@interbaun.com>
||> wrote:
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||> ||Big mistake I made . .
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||> ||Thought I'd slip one of my rear ABS sensors out of a '95 Odyssey. Two
||> ||bolts, clean and inspect, put back in and check the clearance. Not so.
||> ||Broke the steel plate off, sensor still wouldn't come out. Couldn't even
||> ||get the 'remains' out with a chisel and sledge hammer. Too bad it wasn't
||> ||mounted in a couple of O-rings instead of fitting 'snug'. The rust had
||> ||locked it in there permanently. I finally destroyed it one whack at a
||> ||time (without sacrificing the tone ring) and now I'm shopping for a new
||> ||sensor. Some things mortals should never mess with.
||>
||> If it was that corroded, it was probably near failure.
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||>
||> Texas Parts Guy
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||Not really. . . the part that gets stuck is all made of plastic, the
||shape of a cylinder, but it passed thru a tubular hole in the rear
||knuckle, where the rust surrounds it, locking it in place after a few
||salty years :-(
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||P.S. Anybody in North america got a rear-right ABS sensor for a gen 1
||Odyssey? Remove the underscores to reply if you do...
I'm sure someone does, depending on what years "gen 1" denotes.
Texas Parts Guy
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