The three amigos

good evening/morning/afternoon, hope this finds you all well?
Quick question, how difficult is it to change the front ABS sensor? Anything to watch out for or any tools I may need, pretty please peeps.

Morning - I think it all depends on how rusted into the hub it is. Might be worth spraying some WD40 on it a day or 2 before you try to get it out.

Morning to you too grumpy, is it simply a pull out and push in kind of set up then?

I believe so - not had to change any on my Freelander, but the Disco was a case of pulling out and pushing in. There might also be different types depending on year of the Freelander - because there's different reluctor ring setups. The stories on here have mainly been about sensors that have rusted in and are a bugger to get out.

Cheers for that bud

Check the selector ring is not cracked first

What is/ where is the selector ring Danny?

Sorry the abs ring
Stupid phone
On your drive shatfs they crack and spin free or just crack and make a large gap

Nice one Danny I can relate to that, stupid bloody phones. It's annoying uh?

If it's after 2003 it might not have reluctor rings. My phones was ok with the correct name!

Cheers Nodge. Mines a 2001. I've sprayed them with contact cleaner to see if they were crudded up with crap, next step to pull the old one out hahaha.

JayUK45 said:

Cheers Nodge. Mines a 2001. I've sprayed them with contact cleaner to see if they were crudded up with crap, next step to pull the old one out hahaha.

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A 2001 will have passive ABS sensors that are easy to check with a basic multi meter. You can measure resistance of each sonsor at plug. A good sensor should measure about 1,000 Ohms or so. Any sensor that doesn't have that resistance is likely to be the faulty one.

Hey @JayUK45 I'll need to do this too soon... if you manage to take any photos I'll owe you a big pint!

badfelafel said:

Hey @JayUK45 I'll need to do this too soon... if you manage to take any photos I'll owe you a big pint!

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Can you have a BIG pint?

Nodge68 said:

Can you have a BIG pint?

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If someone else is buying it, who cares?
Mines a John Smiths, cheers
Mike

I had to drill my sensors out of the hub, even then it was difficult !!

Haven't been on here for a couple of years.
Laid up the FL whilst moving houses a couple of times and being stuck with the 3 amigos even after replacing sensors and getting good ohm readings on the connections, I'd got a bit tired of it.
So she sat for 2 years.
Anyway ......
Am moving again and thought I'd try and sort it out.
Forked out for a Hawkeye last week and plugged in at the weekend.
Cleared the fault codes ...and finally after 3 years those damn 3 amigos said asta la vista baby and vanished !!!!
Wahay !!!!!
Wish I'd bought the code reader ages ago, damn thing has already saved me a lot of time and money in just 2 days.