Hi I am looking for someone in the Greater Manchester area to cure my 1998 auto Discovery 1 ABS problems once and for all. Otherwise, I am going to sell it and get a Jap 4x4 instead. Can someone help please, I think it is disgusting that Land Rover have allowed us all to suffer this problem with their inadequate ABS system. Thanks
Bromsgrove Defender
Well-Known Member
Bromsgrove Defender
Well-Known Member
davek0974
Well-Known Member
Err, my ABS seems quite good for 1994 motor, what's the problem.
Freediscoranger
Active Member
mine works fine once i replaced the swivel bearings and adjusted everything to what it should be on a 94 disco. saved from a rather sharp braking incident on soaking wet roads and offroad tyres
I have spent over £200 on diagnostics and a new right front sensor only for the problem to recurr a few days later and ABS activating intermittently on light braking. The garage I bought it from also checked it with diagnostic tools and drove it for 70 miles (during which the ABS light did not come on at all) and checked all connections, free of charge, but couldn't find anything wrong. I got it home and two days later ABS light is on again and when its not ABS activates on light braking maybe only once, just after I have set off. Strangely, my partner's 2005 Defender doesn't have ABS at all. So sometimes I have ABS (even when I shouldn't) and sometimes I don't have it at all.
Freediscoranger
Active Member
remove a couple of shims from front right upper pin and see how that goes
Thanks for the advice, I don't know what you are taking about but I will find out and see if someone with the tools can do it.
I don't know, a garage (LR specialist) did the diagnostics for me and told me the only fault showing was the right front sensor, which has now been replaced and re-checked but I'm still getting ABS light on intermittently and when its not on I sometimes get ABS activation when I don't need it.
I'm not a mechanic, I'm a medical secretary, but I'm learning fast lol and enjoy technical stuff much more than secretarial stuff. Would go into engineering if I could go back in time. Thanks for helping.
davek0974
Well-Known Member
The shims are thin pieces of metal placed under the top swivel pin which is found on the front hub, the ABS sensor goes through the middle of it. It keeps the bearings that the hub swivels on under tension, if they become slack they allow the hub to wobble which in turn will let the ABS sensor get pushed too far out of position or just let it give intermittent signals. Taking shims out will take up any slack there and possibly stop it, but only if it is the cause.
If you go this route, I would suggest only taking out the thinnest one there and then adjust in the smallest increments, they come in a range of thicknesses. Going too far can cause other problems.
