funky brake weirdness

[davidpertuz at mindspring.com]

Interesting - and worth checking for. 

I had the right-side axle rebuilt with new CV joints in December or so - it just wasn't practically doable for me to R&R them myself and get the quality of new joints that I wanted - and I suspected, when the first odd symptoms appeared, that it may be a result of something that was done incorrectly on that job. Like inadvertent damage to the wheel speed sensor - or, indeed, a slippin ring. Thanks for the suggestion. 

David

-----Original Message-----
>From: wc701lists at bellsouth.net
>Sent: May 24, 2010 12:50 PM
>To: David Pertuz <davidpertuz at mindspring.com>, se-r at se-r-list.org
>Subject: Re: funky brake weirdness
>
>On 5/24/2010 12:07 AM, David Pertuz wrote:
>> It is as if there is something funny going on with a wheel speed sensor.
>> Felt somewhat like ABS was activating when it shouldn't have. Any of
>> y'all had  something like this happen? I won't have time to diagnose
>> this for a week and a half or so, unfortunately.
>
>I've never had to deal with ABS problems myself, thankfully.  But I'll 
>share a weird one that may be of use or just make you go "WTF".  Brother 
>in-law's minivan (the Ford/Nissan thing, whatever that was called) 
>developed ABS weirdness on a road trip to our place.  ABS pump kicking 
>in at odd times making dangerously reduced braking.  Turned out the 
>toothed sensor ring on the end of a front CV axle was loose and 
>literally spinning freely around on the thing!  Thus confusing the hell 
>out of the ABS computer.
>
>Sounds like 1 in a mill, but maybe something to check.
>
>-Wayne