kplender

OK, I don't know if you call it a "motor", but after you turn the car on something is staying on (running) in the anti-lock assembly under the hood. It is my daughter's car and she didn't know what it was (told me later that something was making noise under the hood :-(. Anyway, the battery was drained completely and when I hooked up the battery charger it started humming. So, I removed the 2 fuses/breakers for the "anti-Skid" over by the battery (1 25 AMP and 1 30 AMP). That stopped it and I am charging the battery right now. Question, can the car be driven with the anti-skid disabled? Will the brakes still work, just not with anti-skid capability?

Second question, what does it take to fix this? Expensive part? Can a "backyard mechanic" like me do it myself? What is the part called? Where is it located (under the black box with the ABS Relay, or is under the big metal part with the brake lines running into it?). Thanks in advance!!!

Fakie J Farkerton

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You can drive without the fuses, you just don't have abs now is all.
Not sure about the part needed to fix, but that answers the drivability question at least.

James92SE

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I have ABS disabled on both of my 3rd gens because it flat didn't work on one of them and something was acting up on the other causing the brake pedal to be annoyingly grabby.

I would really like to get both systems working 100% but unfortunately these ABS systems on these cars are problematic and can be very expensive.

But the car will run/drive/stop perfectly without ABS you'll just lock up and skid under heavy breaking

Levsimus

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Wish mine even worked at all... both front sensors were routed wrong by whoever worked on the car before I had it and as a result, tore the wires out of the back of the sensors - new sensors are insanely expensive and the junkyard has them for insanely cheap but I only ever found one SE with ABS and it had the hubs replaced with non-ABS hubs at some point.... so no front sensors lol