So lately ive been leaking alot of brake fluid and ive been trying to trace it. i had a small leak coming from master cylinder, i replaced that but im still losing fluid. so today i looked around and i found it. ABS unit is leaking big time, all around the two end caps and also from 2 of the hex bolts in the corners. is there any fix to this or does unit have to be replaced?

 

It needs to be replaced,junkyard or classifieds section would be your best bet for another unit..

 

damn..anybody here have one for sale?

 

Start a want to buy thread inthe classifieds....

http://forums.maxima.org/forumdisplay.php?f=62

 

Didn't WE already cover this on another forum wayne?

 

Seems like it?

 

yeah it happened to me i had to get a whole new ABS actuator... :-/

pretty easy, deff a junkyard

good luck

 

I tried that a few weeks ago... haven't heard back from anyone yet.

I've been through 2 ABS actuators and can find no more maximas in the local junk yards with abs... any one have any idea how much that part would run new from the $tealership (That is if they can even get it)?

 

Probably about $12,000...

 

1005.50 at a discount dealer (plus $120 to ship)...click to see.

 

^ I was close^

 

yeah if you had one less 0 and the comma over to the left one more space

 

Well I guess thats cheaper than buying a new car... and my max is pretty much just a lawn orniment with out it... I just hope I don't have to go that route.

 

Mine was about $1,300 new including labor. Ouch.
Fine (Fine? Find.) one at a junk yard, and don't let em charge you more than a couple hundred!

 

Sorry to jack this thread again but... I came up with this... http://www.carpart.com/item.wws?sku=...ientid=carpart

Is this the ABS actuator? I'm pretty sure it is but I just want to verify before I buy it.

 

that would be the correct part #.
just good luck actually getting it.

 

Yeah I just got a 1993 GXE. When we got it, it was spraying out brake fluid from the abs actuator. We took it apart, and found a hairline crack in one of the vertical tubes on the unit.
My father and a friend machined a replacement tube out of a bolt, and we put it back together.

So far, it has been about a week of fine brakes, but when i got home today after about 110 miles of highway driving, my brake light came on and i put about a quarter of a can of brake fluid in the car.

I'm soo glad i found some other people with this same problem, i was thinking that it was just my car with this, but apparently it has happened more than once.

 

Care to expand on that? Thanks

 

It's not from his site...

 

I've seen it happen where they show a part # and they actually don't have a part.

 

well i found one in the junkyard im going to pick it up this week. how is the install? just disconnect all brake lines and remove then bleed brakes?

 

When i did it, i just disconnected all the connected tubes, disconnected the electrical plugs, loosened the two large nuts holding the unit to the base, and took off one small nut on the wheelwell-side of the unit. It was relatively easy, hehe. I do believe that soon I will buy another unit and replace mine, it's getting very cumbersome.