Ok so I made a mistake and discovered something from that mistake.
Replaced a front wheel bearing for a friend the other day on his Toyota.
Removed it and had to cut the old bearing off the hub and proceeded to fit the new bearing. All went together just right, fitted new seals and when I was ready to fit the hub back to the vehicle I noticed a few small metal particles on the ABS sensor ring on the bearing. Ah I thought I will just get my magnetic pickup tool and get it off with, which I did and it worked fine. Fitted all back together and jumped in to test drive down the road. As soon as I pressed on the brakes there was a noticeable shudder so I released the brake did it again and the shudder came back so released them again pressed again only no shudder this time brakes worked perfect but all of a sudden there was the ABS light on in the dash.
Took it home and racked my brain what was wrong it all went together just right. Ok pulled the wheel off and checked all good?. Then it occurred to me so I went and did some research on the bearings. Turns out I had changed the bearing sensor ring fields with my pickup tool so the sensor itself could not sense the bearing. Wow what a simple thing to do that seemed just the convenient thing to do with the pickup tool. So back to step one re-changed the new bearing with another new bearing (lucky only $100) drove the car 100m and light went off problem fixed and lesson learnt.
Just hope this saves any one doing this and not realizing the issue or did everyone but me know this could happen?
regards
drag
Replaced a front wheel bearing for a friend the other day on his Toyota.
Removed it and had to cut the old bearing off the hub and proceeded to fit the new bearing. All went together just right, fitted new seals and when I was ready to fit the hub back to the vehicle I noticed a few small metal particles on the ABS sensor ring on the bearing. Ah I thought I will just get my magnetic pickup tool and get it off with, which I did and it worked fine. Fitted all back together and jumped in to test drive down the road. As soon as I pressed on the brakes there was a noticeable shudder so I released the brake did it again and the shudder came back so released them again pressed again only no shudder this time brakes worked perfect but all of a sudden there was the ABS light on in the dash.
Took it home and racked my brain what was wrong it all went together just right. Ok pulled the wheel off and checked all good?. Then it occurred to me so I went and did some research on the bearings. Turns out I had changed the bearing sensor ring fields with my pickup tool so the sensor itself could not sense the bearing. Wow what a simple thing to do that seemed just the convenient thing to do with the pickup tool. So back to step one re-changed the new bearing with another new bearing (lucky only $100) drove the car 100m and light went off problem fixed and lesson learnt.
Just hope this saves any one doing this and not realizing the issue or did everyone but me know this could happen?
regards
drag
