Hi there, I renewed both front sensors as I had to destroy the originals to get them out of the hub carriers. The garage then replaced both front sensors for the 2nd time. I chucked the first set away as I believed there was no point in keeping them if they were duff. The nagging suspicion is...

Not sure exactly what it is to be honest. It's had 2 sets of sensors in the last couple of months and I logically can't believe both offside sensors have gone wrong. The original fault occurred immediately after doing the front axle balljoints and sensors. The second set was fitted because the...

i've still got a couple of new 32mm hub nuts left over from my other half's MGF :)

Kermit_rr kindly connected it up to his nanocom at lunchtime today and it came back with front o/s sensor short to another sensor. This is after 2 sets of sensors and a reluctor ring. Where do I go from here ? Is it the sensor or is it the abs ecu ? Bamboozled.

old post i know but did you ever fix it and if so what was the fix ?

nice bolt

I completely agree, when I did the cv joint, I fitted it with back with no gap and the abs & traction control lights stayed out until I ventured above 30mph and then both came back on. Today I reduced the gap to 0.04mm, took it for a test drive and both lights stayed on. 4/100 of a millimetre...

Hi, I used a feeler gauge slipped between the sensor tip and the reluctor ring, then pressed the sensor down until it touched the feeler gauge. I'm going to adjust it down to a smaller gap tomorrow lunchtime and see if that does the trick - if not i'll see you Friday lunchtime :)

Here we go again - abs and traction lights back on - was ok on local journeys not going over 30mph. When I took it up to 60-70 mph, the lights came back on. Either driveshaft or wheel bearing oscillation at high speed or air pressure/reluctor ring pushed the sensor back too far ? Ideas on a...

I'm assuming staked refers to the thin circular walled part of the nut being punched into the slot :) as opposed to castellated/castle nut or castellated washer and cotter pin. None of mine had been locked that way and they looked like they've never been undone since the car was built in 2000...

32mm 3/4" drive socket never arrived so tried it with my 3/4" breaker with a 3/4" to 1/2" adapter. Sheared the adapter clean in two. Took it my local tyre fitter and he did the same with his snap on adapter and also broke the head off on his 1/2" breaker using a 3' length of scaffold tube. He...

192ft/lbs

That's my plan - assuming the 3/4" drive 40" long breaker bar and the 32mm impact socket arrive before the weekend. CV joint kit arrived today - 36mm nut Grrrr - shame I've already changed the gaiters and the circlips both sides when I did the balljoints :(

front and rears both 192 ft/lb according to t'interweb :)

When I took the rear hubs off to do the brake backplates both hubnuts undid no sweat with my 1/2" breaker bar - fronts wouldn't budge, not even with 3ft of steel tube added to a 40" breaker

I've asked my local MOT garage to loosen the hub nut - he said he couldn't do it. Maybe would have been a different story if I had asked him to fit the new CV joint as a paying job :(

Yes I've read about that modification to the dust covers. On mine the covers are rusted to hell as well but although they are listed as a separate part, no-one stocks them anymore.

I was going to order just the reluctor ring but changed my mind and ordered a cv joint - just waiting for a 3/4" drive 32mm impact socket and a 3/4" breaker bar as I couldn't undo the hub nuts last time with a 1/2" breaker when I did the balljoints - I had to take the hubs and halfshafts out in...

that nut is rusted to buggery - i've got a 1997 E39 528se auto myself as well as the mk3 granada and a saab 9-3 1.9tid vector sport and a 1996 mgf 1.8vvc - keeps me busy maintaining them :)

Finally diagnosed as a cracked reluctor ring. Pedal should pulsate - like the abs in my granada with a similar system i.e. pump, accumulator and pressure switch and modulator - Teves mk II system.