ABS issues

[thewishkah]

I looked for better place to post this but I didn't feel it fell under suspension and wasn't sure it qualified as electrical either but I bought my 97 xlt about a week ago with a few minor things that need sorting out but none of them are too serious or expensive.

The issue I am bringing up now is the ABS, when coming to a stop usually below 10mph the ABS will activate as if Im slipping on ice. After this happens the ABS light stays on, usually until I shut the truck off. It kind of freaked me out the first time it happened as the truck did not stop as quickly as I was expecting it to and if I didn't leave enough room I would have rear ended someone.

So what I have done is pulled the ABS fuse from the box for now so that it is disabled. From what I can best figure my thoughts are going toward a wheel speed sensor or a tone wheel. Are these common issues with these trucks? The truck had not gotten much use by the previous owner who had it for about 4 years. It has 115,8xx miles on it and when I checked the rotors they seemed a little rusty do you think taking a my die grinder with a sanding wheel to them would help? could the rust cause one wheel to slip a little under braking setting off the ABS?

Sorry for the long post just wanted to cover everything. Any help would be great. Thanks

 

[bedrck46]

Have you had the codes read If not I would suggest that you replace the fuse and then have the code read. Post that information on the forum as that will give a better idea as to which sensor etc may be bad. Also I do not suggest using a die grinder on the rotors. The brake pads should remove any rust that is there during normal braking

 

[thewishkah]

OK I will get that code read, when I said about using the die grinder I didnt mean to take off anything substantial just to clean of any surface rust. But I will leave them alone for now and may just replace them soon. I have a code reader it just doesn't do ABS sadly. Will have to invest in one in the future for abs/srs.

 

[IMINYOURCHAIR]

exactly what mine was doing. turned out to be a bad wheel speed sensor. mine is still disabled as when I bought another sensor the bolt holding my old one broke off. I'll get in there and drill it out eventually...

 

[bedrck46]

Look into the Actron CP9580A it also reads ABS codes