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Big mistake I made . .

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.

End of confession :-(

'Curly'

On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:33:16 -0600, "motsco_ _" <"motsco_ _"@interbaun.com>
wrote:

||Big mistake I made . .
||
||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.


Texas Parts Guy

Rex B wrote:
> On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:33:16 -0600, "motsco_ _" <"motsco_ _"@interbaun.com>
> wrote:
>
> ||Big mistake I made . .
> ||
> ||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.
>
>
> Texas Parts Guy
__________________

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 :-(

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...

'curly'

motsco_ _ wrote:
> Rex B wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 30 May 2004 23:33:16 -0600, "motsco_ _" <"motsco_
>> _"@interbaun.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> ||Big mistake I made . .
>> ||
>> ||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.
>>
>> Texas Parts Guy
>
> __________________
>
> 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 :-(
>
> P.S. Anybody in North america got a rear-right or rear-left (((Turns out a rear-left can be made to work too)))ABS sensor for a gen 1
> Odyssey? Remove the underscores to reply if you do...
>
> 'curly'
>

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:
||>
||> ||Big mistake I made . .
||> ||
||> ||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.
||>
||>
||> Texas Parts Guy
||__________________
||
||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 :-(
||
||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

Rex B wrote:

> P.S. Anybody in North america got a rear-right OR rear-left 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

Generation One was from 1995 thru 1998. I think it was available as
Isuzu Oasis until 1999

Anybody know of a wrecking yard that has an Odyssey siting around?
please contact me. Anywhere in North America would be fine...

'Curly'

To REPLY: If there are a couple of underscores in my return address,
you must remove them to reply directly . . . . . . Thanks.