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Got an issue.
Brake pedal has gone down but will not come all the way back up. Brakes work fine, no errors or warnings. Brake light on all the time because the pedal hasn't come all the way back up. Today I stripped all 4 wheels off and checked the brakes for binding or similar. All seem to work fine - should do, most of them are nearly new! Reassembled and then looked at the pedal itself. It just won't pull back out of the modulator.
I've got an old modulator in the shed. Took the bottom off and all I can see is the tops of the solenoids / valves with the ribbon cable connecting the wires. There's a brass Allen bolt on the front of the modulator but damned is I can shift it. Thing is wedged tight. Broke a reducer trying to turn it with my breaker bar.
The rear of the modulator where the shaft goes in looks like it might undo but it didn't. Monkey wrench just cut up the ally.
Does anyone have any pictures or instructions for dissembling one of these things so I can have a look inside and understand what might have gone wrong. I've a horrible feeling a bit of a rubber seal or plastic has given way and jammed somewhere but I need to know what I'm looking at.
Just looked at Rimmer Brothers and there is only the 99 onwards modulator available for models with traction control. No idea if it'll work with an older ECU but at £2,300 a unit it is one hell of a gamble.
Ideas welcome, as always.
Cheers.
Brake pedal has gone down but will not come all the way back up. Brakes work fine, no errors or warnings. Brake light on all the time because the pedal hasn't come all the way back up. Today I stripped all 4 wheels off and checked the brakes for binding or similar. All seem to work fine - should do, most of them are nearly new! Reassembled and then looked at the pedal itself. It just won't pull back out of the modulator.
I've got an old modulator in the shed. Took the bottom off and all I can see is the tops of the solenoids / valves with the ribbon cable connecting the wires. There's a brass Allen bolt on the front of the modulator but damned is I can shift it. Thing is wedged tight. Broke a reducer trying to turn it with my breaker bar.
The rear of the modulator where the shaft goes in looks like it might undo but it didn't. Monkey wrench just cut up the ally.
Does anyone have any pictures or instructions for dissembling one of these things so I can have a look inside and understand what might have gone wrong. I've a horrible feeling a bit of a rubber seal or plastic has given way and jammed somewhere but I need to know what I'm looking at.
Just looked at Rimmer Brothers and there is only the 99 onwards modulator available for models with traction control. No idea if it'll work with an older ECU but at £2,300 a unit it is one hell of a gamble.
Ideas welcome, as always.
Cheers.
