ABS front wheel speed sensor

[buick789]

found a faulty RF wheel speed sensor on a 1991 Buick park Ave; sensor w/cable is obsolete and not stocked for about 5 vendor/manufacturers and 20 sites. The outer plastic housing had disintegrated and the exposed woven wire shield was broken at a body support rubber bushing. That woven shield IS the second wire for the cable (surprise!). Soldered a couple copper wires between the broken shield, wrapped the entire cable in 3M elecltric tape, coated the entire cable with liquid electrical tape, cleaned the connector connections and put dielectric grease on them, cleaned the sensor mounting surfaces of rust, checked the reluctor teeth on the axle for being clean, mounted the sensor and cable. Voila! ABS problem solved; after 3 shops said they could not figure it out, one expert failed to see the problem, and the information from them was 'you cannot fix the cable' for a 3 year time frame. Done deal

[bob k. mando]

excellent problem solving.

i also like that you soldered the connection.